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, host Mark Vigoroso sits down with Gary Hodsden, Head of IT Digital Products andProjects at Weatherbys Digital Solutions - 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!

"There's more [supply chain] turbulence ...from a macroeconomic, political, and climate perspective; there's a lot more events than we had in the past. So we need that agility. And ultimately we need to serve our customer... But traditionally we were looking at OTIF (On Time in Full), but now, especially since we partnered with Alloy.ai, In-Stock is the most important metric because the most important thing is to add product on the shelf for the consumers. That's what drives us and that's what drives our [supply chain] planning and execution today. The real metric that we need to follow is In Stock because you can have a perfect OTIF, but the shelf could be empty." -- Xavier Duprat, Vice President, Supply Chain Planning & Fulfillment at Cascades. Stream it now and be sure to LIKE, SHARE and COMMENT! Full episode here: https://youtu.be/1VPdWRbDR4k?si=yO422lBRFASNePJk.

If your supply chain planning still runs on monthly forecastreviews and flat-file data dumps, you're already behind - and this podcast explains exactly why. Supply Chain Planning Reimagined is a special series from The Enterprise Edge® in partnership with SAP, and episode 1 - The Vision Shift: Reimagining Supply Chain Planning - brings together Xavier Duprat, VP of Supply Chain Planning at Cascades (a packaging and hygiene giant running SAP IBP since 2016), and Joel Beal, CEO and Co-Founder of Alloy.ai, whose platform ingestsreal-time POS and inventory signals from over 450 retailers. Together, they dismantle the myth that better supply and demand forecasting algorithms are the answer - the real boon, they argue, is better data, delivered daily. You'll hear how Cascades overhauled its entire sales and operations planning (S&OP) process across 25 North American plants and grew its business by 10%, while simultaneously improving retail in-stock rates, how AI agents are now catchingdistribution glitches in retailer systems that human teams would have missed entirely, and why the best supply chain professionals of the next decade won't be replaced by AI - they'll be the ones who learn to manage it. This isn'ttheoretical. It's a real supply chain planning transformation, already underway, with receipts. Stream it now, and be sure to LIKE, SHARE, and COMMENT! Trying to modernize your Supply Chain Planning? --https://events.sap.com/tee-supply-chain-planning-reimagined/en_us/home.html