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Not all AI is built for the same job.As businesses look at where AI can add value, there’s an important distinction wort...
04/09/2026

Not all AI is built for the same job.

As businesses look at where AI can add value, there’s an important distinction worth understanding:

Horizontal AI vs Vertical AI.

Horizontal AI is general-purpose. It’s designed to work across industries and tasks - drafting, summarising, analysing information and answering questions.

Vertical AI is purpose-built for a specific industry or business function.

Rather than starting with broad knowledge, it is designed around the terminology, data, workflows and operational requirements of a particular environment.

In supply chain, that distinction matters.

Demand forecasting, inventory optimisation, production planning and logistics all involve complex relationships between data, constraints, exceptions and business rules.

The opportunity is not simply to introduce AI into these processes.

It’s to apply AI with the right operational context behind it.

Because knowing what a demand forecast is and understanding what is influencing your demand forecast are two very different things.

As AI becomes more embedded in business operations, perhaps the better question isn't:

“Are we using AI?” It’s: “Are we using the right AI for the job?”

A pencil looks ridiculously simple. Wood. Graphite. A bit of metal. An eraser.But no single person could easily make an ...
02/09/2026

A pencil looks ridiculously simple. Wood. Graphite. A bit of metal. An eraser.

But no single person could easily make an ordinary modern pencil completely from scratch.

Its components can trace back through entirely different industries and supply chains.

The wood has to be grown, harvested, milled and processed into pencil slats.
The "lead" isn't lead at all - it's generally a carefully formulated mixture containing graphite and clay, processed to achieve different writing characteristics and degrees of hardness.

The little metal band holding the eraser is called a ferrule. Even that tiny component has its own manufacturing and material supply chain.

Then there's the eraser itself, which can involve natural or synthetic rubber and other compounds.

And we haven't even reached the paint or lacquer, glue, printed lettering, packaging, machinery or energy involved in producing it.

All those separate supply chains eventually converge to create one remarkably simple everyday product.

Then that pencil begins another journey - through packaging, freight, distribution, wholesalers or retailers before eventually landing in someone's desk drawer.

There's an even bigger idea behind this story. In 1958, Leonard E. Read famously used the humble pencil to demonstrate how even the simplest everyday product relies on the knowledge, labour and coordination of an extraordinary network of people.

That's the mind-blowing part. You can hold a pencil between two fingers...
…but you're potentially holding the end result of forestry, mining, chemicals, manufacturing, energy, transportation, packaging, planning and trade.

And throughout that enormous chain, businesses still have to answer one fundamental question: How many pencils are people actually going to need?

You think this is a pencil. We see a supply chain.

Waiting for certainty is a losing strategy - especially when it comes to AI.By the time every question has been answered...
31/08/2026

Waiting for certainty is a losing strategy - especially when it comes to AI.

By the time every question has been answered and every risk eliminated, someone else has already moved.

Speed isn’t about creating urgency or setting tighter deadlines. It’s about removing the friction between insight and action.

That means:
• Cutting unnecessary red tape
• Building systems that can evolve
• Accepting that useful today can be more valuable than perfect tomorrow

You don’t need all the answers to begin. But you do need the ability to test, learn, adapt and act.

How much is the pursuit of certainty slowing progress in your business?

They're just eggs. How complicated can the supply chain be?More complicated than most of us ever think about.A supply ch...
31/08/2026

They're just eggs. How complicated can the supply chain be?

More complicated than most of us ever think about.

A supply chain professional sees:
Suppliers → Feed → Farms → Production → Grading & Packing → Planning → Inventory → Transport → Distribution → Retail → Consumer → Data → Replenishment.

And every arrow represents a dependency.

A disruption at the farm.
A shortage of feed or packaging.
A change in production.
An inaccurate forecast.
A transport delay.
An unexpected spike in demand.

When just one part of that chain is disrupted, the impact can travel all the way to the supermarket shelf.

We've seen what that looks like when eggs suddenly become harder to find.

And that's what makes supply chains so interesting. When everything works, we rarely think about them.

We simply expect the eggs to be there. Making sure they are? That's supply chain planning.

Every supply chain has dependencies. Do you know which one could disrupt yours?

The people behind DMS💙Three more faces from the team we're very proud to call ours.They each bring something different t...
28/08/2026

The people behind DMS💙

Three more faces from the team we're very proud to call ours.

They each bring something different to DMS - experience, knowledge, personality and their own way of making a difference.

Because at the end of the day, a business is only as good as the people behind it.

At DMS, our people are our greatest strength.

59% of supply chain and procurement executives say trust — not cost or technology — is the biggest barrier to adopting a...
26/08/2026

59% of supply chain and procurement executives say trust — not cost or technology — is the biggest barrier to adopting agentic AI.

And perhaps that shouldn’t surprise us.

When AI moves from providing insight to making recommendations and taking action, the question becomes less about what the technology can do and more about how much we’re prepared to trust it to do.

Our August newsletter explores the trust gap around agentic AI — why it exists, why some of that caution is justified, and what needs to happen before businesses are ready to hand over greater decision-making responsibility.

Because adoption won’t be driven by capability alone.

For the full insight, read on 👇
https://lnkd.in/gEDeK9rm

A handshake can say a lot.Trust. Experience. Partnership.DMS believes the best business relationships are built on all t...
24/08/2026

A handshake can say a lot.

Trust. Experience. Partnership.

DMS believes the best business relationships are built on all three.

We bring the expertise. We bring the experience. And we stand beside our clients every step of the way.

You’re in good hands with DMS.

Every business has a story. Ours is built by the people behind it.Throughout August, we'd like to introduce you to some ...
21/08/2026

Every business has a story. Ours is built by the people behind it.

Throughout August, we'd like to introduce you to some of the team at DMS. The people our clients work with every day. The people who bring experience, passion and personality to everything they do.

We're incredibly proud of our team, and we think they're worth getting to know.

Planning used to be about agreeing on the numbers.Today, it's about understanding what will change the numbers.The focus...
19/08/2026

Planning used to be about agreeing on the numbers.

Today, it's about understanding what will change the numbers.

The focus is shifting away from debating forecast numbers and towards understanding the factors that shape demand. Customer behaviour, market conditions and commercial decisions all become part of the conversation.

That's the difference between traditional planning and insight-based planning.

AI and Large Language Models can accelerate this shift by helping teams uncover insights faster, improve collaboration and respond more quickly to changing conditions.

But technology isn't the transformation.
The transformation is moving from looking backwards at what happened to confidently planning for what happens next.

The question for leaders is no longer: "Is the forecast right?"
It's more along the lines of: "Do we understand what's driving demand, & are we prepared to act?"

Those who can see beyond the forecast and understand the forces shaping demand will be better prepared for whatever comes next.

Is your planning process focused on the forecast... or the factors shaping it?

The best dashboards don't show you everything. They show you what deserves your attention.Too many teams spend more time...
17/08/2026

The best dashboards don't show you everything. They show you what deserves your attention.

Too many teams spend more time reviewing reports than making decisions.

High-performing supply chains take a different approach.

They start with the decisions that matter most, then build visibility around those decisions.

Business Intelligence isn't about better reporting.
It's about better decisions.

• What requires our attention?
• What should we do next?

That's where real value is created. Are your dashboards driving action or simply reporting performance?

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