Using AI to Right-Size Inventory and Kill Shortages w/ Richard Lebovitz

Founder and chief strategy officer of LeanDNA, Richard Lebovitz, will tell you that one of the biggest causes of part shortages isn't what you'd expect. It's failing to tell your suppliers what you don't need. In this episode, we dig into why supply chain teams get stuck firefighting shortages while executives chase working capital, and how those two goals drift out of sync. Richard makes the case for running a supply chain the way a good marketer runs a campaign: short, targeted and measured, then adjusted. You'll hear the difference between predictive and prescriptive AI, why the prescriptive kind is so much harder to get right, and the mistake he sees manufacturers make when they hand AI a decision it isn't ready for. Underneath all of it runs a simple idea he picked up early from the partners who taught him Lean: the point of any technology is to make the work easier for the people doing it.