The Predictive Enterprise: How Superhuman Supply Chains Transform Global Business

Build a predictive enterprise that delivers faster-than-human decisions, eliminates procurement bottlenecks, and achieves full payback on AI investment in under 90 days The Predictive Enterprise: How Superhuman Supply Chains Transform Global Business reveals how Fortune 500 leaders at are using AI to fundamentally redesign—not just automate—their procurement and supply chain operations. Built around a powerful framework with three pillars—Faster-Than-Human Decision-Making, Humanless Loops, and Outcome-Based Process Re-Engineering—this book shows executives how to move from reactive, bloated processes to predictive operations that deliver measurable results at enterprise scale. Written by Arkestro Founder & Chief Strategy Officer Edmund Zagorin with a foreword by former GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt and a conclusion by three time Chief Procurement Officer Len DeCandia, this book delivers key insights on: • Overcoming the three "double binds" that trap procurement teams—speed and cost, supplier rationalization and resiliency, and scale and efficiency—using predictive AI • The Predictive Process Framework: how to replace static workflows with dynamic, outcome-driven process stacks that adapt in real time • Responsible AI governance for suppliers, including a risk-reward matrix for deciding what to automate, what to augment, and what to leave to human judgment • A step-by-step 100-day leadership playbook for CPOs and supply chain executives to build transformation teams, launch quick wins, and scale predictive initiatives across the enterprise The Predictive Enterprise is a timely, essential read for C-suite executives, supply chain leaders, and procurement professionals at global enterprises navigating AI transformation and the reshoring wave reshaping manufacturing.