In this Data Blades episode, Deck Commerce founder Chris Deck reveals how AI order orchestration acts as the missing execution layer to drive growth, sharing a live simulation where one order packed into two boxes cut split shipments threefold and reduced shipping zones by four. He explains why human-in-the-loop agentic order managem...

Vicki Cantrell and Dave Finnegan pull back the curtain on how retailers and retail tech vendors actually make decisions, revealing that neither side truly understands the other and that traditional sales pitches miss the mark. Recorded live at the RetailClub AI Festival, the conversation covers why leading with AI fails, how to uncov...

This episode with Brett Duarte reframes AI in logistics around a $10 trillion industry, exploring how tactical use cases like route optimization and control towers pair with strategic network design and governance to drive real ROI. It covers trusted data sources, platform choices, and the rise of citizen developers, while framing su...

The New Thing Gap - What retail took away when it took away the friction, with NYT editor Eric Athas. In 1995, buying a pair of sneakers cost you 30 minutes and five miles of driving. Today it takes about four seconds. New York Times editor Eric Athas spent four years reporting on what that trade did to people, and he has a name for ...

In this episode, Brett Duarte breaks down how AI driven demand forecasting and inventory optimization work together to reduce stockouts and improve turns, with Amazon’s 35% drop in stockouts serving as a benchmark. He walks through the forecasting toolkit—extrapolation, regression, machine learning, and large language models for narr...

In this first installment of Data Blades' AI supply chain mini-series, Brett Duarte of ASU breaks down why AI pilots frequently stall at enterprise scale, focusing on procurement, supplier risk, and contract intelligence. He identifies two universal blockers— fragmented infrastructure and adoption challenges—then explains agentic AI ...