AI Training · Supply Chain & Planning

AI Training for Supply Chain and Planning Teams

We train planning, inventory and procurement teams to use AI on the preparation that takes up most of the planning cycle.

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Planning, inventory and procurement teams
Run on your own demand history and PO pipeline
On site Sydney and NSW, remote Australia wide

What AI can and cannot do in planning

AI forecasting needs years of clean history, stable seasonality and enough volume per line. Many mid-size businesses don’t have all three yet.

So we start with the preparation: pulling demand history, chasing supplier ETAs, reconciling what was ordered against what landed and writing up the plan. That work doesn’t need clean history to improve.

Who we train

Demand and supply planners. Building the plan, explaining the movements, and preparing for the review meeting.
Inventory and replenishment analysts. Cover reporting, ageing and obsolescence, allocation across sites.
Procurement and purchasing. Supplier chasing, ETA confirmation, order reconciliation, and supplier performance reporting.
Supply chain managers. Reviewing the plan and signing it off.

What a workshop covers

Supplier chasing and ETA management. The follow-ups, the confirmations, and keeping the plan current when a date moves.
Purchase order reconciliation. Ordered against confirmed against received, with the gaps and the likely reason for each.
Stock cover and exception reporting. What is short, what is long, what is ageing, and which of those is worth acting on this week.
Demand history preparation. Cleaning and shaping the history so that whatever you forecast with, statistical or judgement based, is working from something sound.
The plan write-up. The narrative that goes to leadership, drafted from the numbers instead of typed from scratch.
Supplier performance packs. On-time and in-full, lead time drift, and the conversations they should trigger.

Where judgement has to stay human

AI shouldn’t decide who gets stock when you’re short, negotiate with a supplier, or override a planner who knows an account always over-orders in March. Those calls need context, relationships and accountability.

A note on courses and certificates

University microcredentials in AI for supply chain are a good choice if you want a certificate.

Ours has no certificate. Your team spends the day on your own files and leaves with next month’s preparation done.

In Sydney we run this as an in-house AI workshop.

Common questions about AI training for supply chain teams

How is this different from a university supply chain AI course?

A university course gives you a framework and a certificate. Here your planners work on your own demand history and PO pipeline, and leave with your own tasks done.

Our data is messy and split across systems. Is it too early?

Usually not. Supplier chasing, PO reconciliation and the plan write-up don’t need perfect data, so we can start there.

Will AI forecast demand better than our planner?

Not on its own. What helps is cutting the hours your planner spends pulling the inputs together, so more time goes on the decision.

Who should attend?

Anyone who works on the plan, including whoever signs it off. Eight to twelve people works well.

Do you work with our ERP or planning system?

Yes. We work with the exports and reports your systems already produce, so there’s no integration project first.

What does it cost?

A fixed price, quoted after a free 30-minute call. No hourly billing and no lock-in.

What happens after the session?

A follow-up is included. We check back in once your next planning cycle lands.

Talk to us about your planning cycle

Tell us what your planning cycle looks like, and let’s work out where AI can help.