Zero100

Janelle Aydin joins an elite coalition of global CEOs, COOs, and CSCOs advancing the role of supply chains in driving business transformation and technological innovation. Janelle brings two decades of global operations experience leading complex supply chains and integrated sustainability strategies for major multinational consumer goods companies.

Kelly Coutinho October 09, 2026 • 5 min read AI has made experimentation remarkably easy. Prototypes that once took months can now take days. Models can be accessed through an API, agents assembled quickly, and new capabilities added to existing applications. Enterprise scale, on the other hand, remains stubbornly difficult. We often treat scaling as a deployment problem. But the harder test comes when the work crosses application or functional boundaries.

Kevin O'Marah October 08, 2026 • 4 min read Anthropic recently posted a Head of Compute Supply Chain job targeting semiconductors, power systems, and other data center hardware, but excluding energy. This is not because it rolls up under sustainability, real estate, or procurement as is common among most Fortune 500 companies, but because energy is so important that it merits an even higher level of executive ownership for the AI giant.

Karishma Jobanputra October 05, 2026 • 8 min read Bristol Myers Squibb’s (BMS) Devens facility in Massachusetts stands as a premier site for manufacturing complex biologics and cell therapies. Tasked with navigating the inherent scientific complexity and variability of medicines produced using living cells, the site faced mounting cost pressures and an urgent need to accelerate time-to-market. Traditional lean manufacturing and automation approaches had reached their maximum potential.

Kelly Coutinho October 02, 2026 • 4 min read We’re currently working with a consumer goods company whose board has aligned around a strategic outcome for the supply chain org: improving the inventory-to-service tradeoff. However, translating it into execution means connecting decisions made across demand, supply, manufacturing, inventory, and beyond.

October 01, 2026 • 5 min read Climate scientists are predicting a big jump in the power of this winter’s El Niño in the Pacific. Much warmer subsurface water temperatures hold massive energy, which promises big swings in precipitation and storm activity, and as many as 450,000 extra heat-related deaths worldwide by February 2027. What does it mean for supply chains?

September 30, 2026 • 5 min read At Zero100 Live EU a few weeks ago, supply chain and operations leaders gathered in London to make progress on some of their most urgent and top-of-mind questions. In multiple sessions, one question kept coming up: how can functional leaders and teams show they are delivering enterprise outcomes, rather than siloed ones?

Kelly Coutinho September 25, 2026 • 5 min read For much of the last three decades, enterprise technology has been organized around functional domains, with planning, procurement, manufacturing, and logistics developing their own applications, workflows, and data. It delivered control, standardization, and scale, but left much of the work of connecting decisions across systems to people, spreadsheets, emails, and meetings.

Kevin O'Marah September 24, 2026 • 4 min read News that the US and China are prepared to talk about a new AI safety notification mechanism probably sounds like a good first step to people worried about the dangers of AI, including job destruction, rogue agents, cybersecurity, and social instability. If AI is an existential threat but also a race no one can afford to lose, then who builds the guardrails?

Kelly Coutinho September 17, 2026 • 5 min read Since January 2026, 67% of our conversations with supply chain and operations leaders have been about the technology stack. These discussions, whether focused on spend, vendor assessment, or new AI capabilities, all point to a broader, more urgent theme:  the need to match operational reality with tech choices to ensure competitive advantage in the AI era. The ground has shifted. Now, tech spend has a much closer relationship with operational strategy.