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The Programme
Why This. Why Now.
Planners are pasting supplier emails into ChatGPT. Buyers are drafting tender responses with it. Someone in the warehouse has quietly translated a work instruction with it. This is happening in your organisation today, without training, without guardrails, and without anyone measuring whether the output is any good.
Meanwhile the ERP and planning vendors — SAP, Oracle, Blue Yonder, Kinaxis, o9 — are all shipping AI agents into products you already own. You will be sold agentic AI before you have decided whether you want it.
The conversation is arriving whether or not the team is ready for it. This workshop will prepare you for it.
What This Programme Is — and Is Not
| It is | It is not |
| Hands-on, with group exercises | A conference keynote about the future of work |
| Built around supply chain work: sourcing, planning, logistics, quality, inbound | A generic AI literacy course with a supply chain slide |
| Tool-agnostic and vendor-neutral | A demo of any vendor’s product |
| Honest about where AI fails and what it costs | A promise that AI will fix your master data |
| Build your own AI road map | A data science or coding class |
No technical background is required. You will not write code. You will need a laptop, and access to any AI tool (ChatGPT/ Claude / Copilot or any other)
Who Should Attend
Supply chain managers, heads and directors
Procurement and sourcing managers, category managers, buyers
Factory and plant managers, production planners
Logistics, warehouse, transport and trade compliance managers
Supplier quality and inbound quality leads
What You Walk Away With
The Supply Chain Prompt Library
The Agent Spec Canvas
The Use-Case Scoring Sheet
Shortlist of supply chain AI use cases
A one-page guardrail set
AI Road Map
The Six Modules
| Module | What it covers | |
| 1 | What AI Actually is | What is and LLM and what does it do
AI tools and their applications What is hallucination and why is AI is confidently wrong Predictive AI Generative AI Agentic AI What AI is genuinely good at, and where it reliably fails
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| 2 | Generative AI and Prompt Engineering | The anatomy of a prompt
Understanding RAGS Chaining, persona, tone and iteration Applications of prompts in supply chain |
| 3. | Hands-on : Five Generative AI Builds | Groups Exercises
Solve a Supply-chain problem Read out to the larger team, Get feedback, discuss and learn
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| 4. | Agentic AI – When Software Starts Doing Things | What changes when AI acts instead of answers.
The autonomy ladder. Where agents run in supply chains today Human-in-the-loop
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| 5. | Hands-on : Design an Agent | Groups Exercises
Solve a Supply-chain problem Read out to the larger team, Get feedback, discuss and learn
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| 6. | Building the roadmap | Where to start and where not to.
Scoring use cases. Build, buy, or already-in-your-ERP. Challenges, opportunities and guardrails. Your 30, 90, 120-day plan. |
Your Facilitator : Hareesh Tibrewala
Founder & CEO, Manabu | Certified Independent Director
Hareesh has spent over three decades building technology businesses. He founded Indias’ first ecommerce portal in 1999. Later, he co-founded Mirum (formerly Social Wavelength), one of India’s largest digital agencies, which was acquired by WPP in 2023
As a Certified Independent Director, he serves on multiple corporate boards and chairs Audit, CSR and Digital Risk Management committees. He is also Non-Executive Chairperson of MeruLife; a mentor with Stanford Seed; and a Lead Partner at Social Venture Partners.
Through Manabu, he works at the intersection of leadership, learning and artificial intelligence, and has led AI masterclasses for boards, leadership teams, and industry bodies internationally.
An engineering graduate from VJTI Mumbai, with a Master of Science from the University of Southern California and executive education from Harvard Business School.
Logistics
| Duration | 4 hours |
| Format | In-person only. Laptop required for the hands-on modules. |
| Includes | Refreshments, the complete takeaway tool kit |
| In-house option | This programme can be run as a closed session for a single HR team, customised to your systems and policies. Details on request. |
