Mark Sawaya is a Partner and North America Operations Practice Lead at Porsche Consulting. He advises organizations on operations and supply-chain transformation across industrial, med-tech, aerospace and defense environments.
His public work addresses supply-chain digitization, operational excellence, network optimization and the impact of AI on planning and execution. In the Reuters panel, he identified end-to-end network optimization as a major source of value and questioned whether traditional monthly S&OP cycles remain appropriate as decision latency decreases.
Sawaya’s network-level perspective broadens AI adoption beyond individual forecasts or inventory parameters. End-to-end optimization requires consistent cost, capacity, lead-time, service and constraint data across sourcing, manufacturing and distribution.
Faster decision cycles do not remove the need for governance. Organizations must define which trade-offs can be resolved automatically, how Finance and commercial priorities enter the objective function, and when executives must approve changes affecting customers, plants or suppliers.
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- insightsHuman accountability remains central to self-driving S&OP2026-06-25
- alertsEVENT: How I vibe-coded my Advanced Planning System2026-07-02
- alertsEVENT: Intuiflow showcases Demand Driven planning at Procurement Summit Hamburg2026-06-25
- newsPigment Introduces Graphite Architecture for Scalable, Governed Planning2026-06-05
- insightsErik Bush reframes the trillion-dollar inventory problem as an operating-model failure2026-06-05
- insightsAnkur Gupta argues supply chain needs world models, not just agents2026-06-05
- insightsJon Nichols shows what continuous planning looks like in a next-gen planner’s week2026-06-05
- alertsEVENT: ASCM and IBF Best of the Best S&OP Conference returns to Chicago in June 20262026-06-04
- alertsEVENT: Alkemys webinar highlights pragmatic AI agents in Supply Chain2026-06-03
- insightsSupply Chain Skills Are Becoming Decision Architecture Skills2026-06-03
- insightsOrchestra’s Recovery Shows Why Inventory Reduction Is a Governance Problem2026-06-03
- insightsBuild Fast, Govern Early: The New Control Layer for Supply Chain AI Tools2026-06-01