Supply Chain Planning × AI

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Jon Nichols

About Jon

A Practitioner Writing for Practitioners

I am a demand planning professional and the founder of The Next-Gen Planner. I work full-time in supply chain planning and write about what I see happening in the profession, not from the outside looking in, but from inside the meetings, the models, and the Monday morning fire drills.

Over the past three years I have attended more than a dozen supply chain planning conferences, held one-on-one conversations with planners across manufacturing, CPG, retail, and distribution, and interviewed more than one hundred practitioners navigating AI's impact on the profession.

I also organize the North Atlanta Supply Chain Planning Network, a local professional community for planners across the region.

Founder, The Next-Gen Planner newsletter
Organizer, North Atlanta Supply Chain Planning Network
6x conference speaker in supply chain planning and AI
Specializing in S&OE, S&OP, and AI-augmented planning

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Practical resources you can use today, built by someone who does this work every week.

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