In this episode of Interlinks, Lisa Anderson, President of LMA Consulting in Los Angeles and I, discuss some of the supply chain effects of the geopolitical and international trade tensions that have been ongoing for some time now and that are expected to continue as the new US administration under President Donald Trump takes up the reins of power in Washington DC.

Tariffs, inventory stockpiling, and supply chain diversification are some of the effects that we are seeing flowing from these tensions and while many of the most forward-looking companies with extensive international interests are ahead of the trend on this front, many others are not.

We are already seeing some non-American multinationals setting up operations on US soil to get on the right side of any future tariff barriers and some American companies bringing operations home, closer to home or to more geopolitically safe and sustainable locations in Europe and Asia.

Keeping up with all the multidimensional challenges to supply chains across several interconnected domains such as geopolitics, compliance, cyber and security is a competency and skill set ever more in demand from companies large and small across all sectors of the economy.

Lisa and I touch on all of these topics in a wide-ranging conversation that I hope you enjoy as much as we did.

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In this episode of Interlinks, I talk to Pratik Baral who is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in the Los Angeles metro area in California and has become somewhat of a regular guest on the Interlinks podcast due to his ongoing work at the cutting edge of AI applications in business. Pratik has accumulated a lot of knowledge and insight into the use cases for Generative AI technologies in real world applications and shares these with me in a wide ranging conversation.

Pratik had just returned to the US from an eight-week sojourn in his home country, Nepal, when we had this conversation and so we spent a couple of minutes at the start chatting about the social and economic environment in that country and it looks to hold its own in a region dominated by the two geopolitical giants of India and China.

We then went on to talk about some AI applications in diagnostics, the concept of making content "Chat-able", search agent displacement and the multi-modal input/output capabilities of the latest iterations of some of the GPT models, the pros and cons of LLM's inherent feature of hallucination, the current relative plateauing of LLM capabilities and the emergence of other AI architectures in the future.

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This is part two of a two part conversation with my colleagues from the Global Supply Chain Think Tank (GSCTT) where we discuss some of the ways in which the application of AI technologies can and will enhance supply chain performance for manufacturers, distributors and logistics services companies across multiple domains, including:

• Demand Forecasting and Planning
• Inventory Optimization
• Logistics and Route Planning
• Supplier Relationship Management
• Risk Management and Resilience
• Predictive and Prescriptive Analysis
• AI-Driven Automation and Autonomous Systems
• Ethics, Privacy and Compliance

My guests for this discussion are:

• Antonio Zrilic from from Logiko Consultants in Zagreb, Croatia
• Lisa Anderson from LMA Consultants in the Los Angeles metro area in the US
• Elizabeth Warren from San Pedro in California, also in the US

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