The Enterprise Edge - Chris Stansbury, President & CFO, Lumen

The Enterprise Edge, w/ SAP | Supply Chain Planning Reimagined | Episode 2: "Autonomous Decisions at Scale: Making AI Work in the Real World"

What happens when the autopilot turns on, and a supply chain planner can't explain why it made the call it just made? In this episode of Supply Chain Planning Reimagined – brought to you by The Enterprise Edge® in partnership with SAP [https://www.sap.com/index.html]- Xavier Duprat [https://www.linkedin.com/in/xavier-duprat/], VP of Supply Chain Planning at Cascades [https://www.cascades.com/en/products-services/fibre-based-materials/tissue-paper-parent-rolls], and Joel Beal [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelcbeal/], CEO of Alloy AI [https://alloy.ai/], get brutally honest about where autonomous supply chain decisions actually stand today: not in a sandbox, but across 10 North American tissue paper plants, 10,000 retail store locations, and a freshly launched replenishment agent that went live the week of this recording. They unpack… • why "on-time and in full (OTIF)" is the wrong metric to optimize for • how a single in-stock KPI nobody knew three years ago is now getting a standing ovation in monthly leadership reviews • why 15% forecast accuracy improvements are table stakes compared to what agentic AI is about to unlock • why the real architectural question isn't monolithic vs. multi-agent - it's whether your organization has built enough trust to let go of the wheel. If you're a supply chain leader navigating the gap between proof-of-concept and production-scale autonomy, this conversation is your roadmap. Stream it now, and be sure to LIKE, SHARE, and COMMENT! Get a demo of Supply Chain Planning Reimagined in action: https://events.sap.com/tee-supply-chain-planning-reimagined/en_us/home.html

The Enterprise Edge - Chris Stansbury, President & CFO, Lumen

Everyone with a dog in the enterprise AI hunt is obsessing over GPUs, data centers, and foundation models - but Chris Stansbury [linkedin.com/in/chris-stansbury-2b31a024], President & CFO of Lumen [https://www.lumen.com/en-us/home.html], says they're all missing the nervous system. In this episode of The Enterprise Edge® podcast, Chris makes a compelling case that the real bottleneck of the AI era isn't compute - it's data movement. He gives a candid account of how Lumen quietly transformed from a debt-laden legacy telco into the network backbone powering some of the biggest hyperscaler AI buildouts in the world, why 1,728 fibers through a single conduit is a strategic moat, and what the Alkira acquisition signals about where enterprise AI infrastructure is actually heading. Whetheryou're a CIO evaluating AI readiness, a CFO thinking about infrastructure ROI, or an investor still sleeping on networking, Chris leaves you with a piece of advice you can’t ignore: "If your data can't move, your AI doesn't work." Stream the episode now and be sure to LIKE, SHARE and COMMENT!

EdgeBytes: The Enterprise AI Battleground is Operational Gravity - Featuring IBM, SAP, Workday, and Intuit | 5.19.26

Four major enterprise software announcements over the pastweek - from SAP [https://www.sap.com/index.html], Intuit [https://www.intuit.com/], Workday [https://www.workday.com/], and IBM [https://www.ibm.com/us-en] - and on the surface they look unrelated. But dig deeper and they're all pointing at the same shift: enterprise AI value is no longer about which company has the smartest model, it's about which platform owns the operational context, trusted data, and execution workflows that make AI decisions actually stick. SAP is building a governed autonomous enterprise layer. Intuit is quietly becoming an AI-native ERP for the mid-market. Workday is betting on workflow invisibility insideMicrosoft 365. And IBM is making a surprisingly candid argument that most AI transformations are failing not because of bad technology, but because oforganizational drag. In this episode of EdgeBytes [https://www.tee5.ai/edgebytes], Mark Vigoroso [www.linkedin.com/in/markvigoroso] connects the dots across all four - and what emerges is a sharper picture of where enterprise software power is concentrating, and what CEOs, CFOs, and CIOs should be doing about it right now. Stream the episode now, and be sure to LIKE, SHARE, and COMMENT!

CLIP from The Enterprise Edge, "The Vision Shift: Reimagining Supply Chain Planning," w/ SAP

(https://lnkd.in/eXqZBrFh [https://lnkd.in/eXqZBrFh]) | “… now with AI - and are rolling this out as we speak - we can do that whole [order volume and frequency] process for you. We can write that initial email. We can send it. We can wait for the response from the retailer. When they come back for clarification, we have all the data to give them clarification. We don't need a person to do that. I think that's where we're seeing a lot of exciting changes from recommendations to actual action. [Retailers] are going to be interacting back with their suppliers and you're going to end up with two agents going back and forth with their respective information. That is a very real thing that we are seeing customers use today. This is not in the future. And I think we're scratching the surface of what's going to be coming in the coming months.” -- Joel Beal [linkedin.com/in/joelcbeal], CEO & Co-Founder at Alloy.ai. Stream the full podcast episode here: https://youtu.be/1VPdWRbDR4k?si=tlFwuZz1_eZu9GS5 [https://youtu.be/1VPdWRbDR4k?si=tlFwuZz1_eZu9GS5]

The Enterprise Edge - Gary Hodsden, Head of IT Digital Products and Projects at Weatherbys Digital Solutions

What do 255 years of thoroughbred bloodlines have to do with the cutting edge of enterprise AI? More than you'd think. In this episode of The Enterprise Edge [https://www.tee5.ai/podcast], host Mark Vigoroso [www.linkedin.com/in/markvigoroso] sits down with Gary Hodsden [linkedin.com/in/garyhodsden], Head of IT Digital Products andProjects at Weatherbys Digital Solutions [https://www.weatherbys.digital/] - the UK firm that has been the backbone of global horse racing data since 1773. Twelve years into his Weatherbys tenure, Gary shares candid insights on how his team built a modern, Microsoft-first, low-code platform called Salio (Latin for "to leap") that is catapulting one of the world's most data-rich but technologically archaic industries into the cloud and AI age - across racing jurisdictions from Saudi Arabia to Germany, navigating data sovereignty rules along the way. Even more fascinating: Gary's team is training a custom LLM on centuries of breeding records so that owners and breeders can simply ask which stallion is most likely to produce a Group 1 winner. But beyond the tech, Gary delivers some of the most honest and practical wisdom you'll hear from any IT leader: 70% of every project lives or dies on people and process, not the platform. If you lead technology strategy at any organization - Fortune 50 or SMB - and you're trying to cut through the enterprise AI noise to deliver business outcomes, stream this episode now and be sure to LIKE, SHARE and COMMENT!