The Predictive Enterprise

How Superhuman Supply Chains Transform Global Business

Edmund Zagorin

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2026
• Print ISBN:
  9781394370511
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781394370535
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Development
• Index: Business

Build a predictive enterprise that delivers faster-than-human decisions, eliminates procurement bottlenecks, and achieves full payback on AI investment in under 90 days

The Predictive Enterprise: How Superhuman Supply Chains Transform Global Business reveals how Fortune 500 leaders at are using AI to fundamentally redesign—not just automate—their procurement and supply chain operations. Built around a powerful framework with three pillars—Faster-Than-Human Decision-Making, Humanless Loops, and Outcome-Based Process Re-Engineering—this book shows executives how to move from reactive, bloated processes to predictive operations that deliver measurable results at enterprise scale.

Written by Arkestro Founder & Chief Strategy Officer Edmund Zagorin with a foreword by former GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt and a conclusion by three time Chief Procurement Officer Len DeCandia, this book delivers key insights on:

• Overcoming the three "double binds" that trap procurement teams—speed and cost, supplier rationalization and resiliency, and scale and efficiency—using predictive AI

• The Predictive Process Framework: how to replace static workflows with dynamic, outcome-driven process stacks that adapt in real time

• Responsible AI governance for suppliers, including a risk-reward matrix for deciding what to automate, what to augment, and what to leave to human judgment

• A step-by-step 100-day leadership playbook for CPOs and supply chain executives to build transformation teams, launch quick wins, and scale predictive initiatives across the enterprise

The Predictive Enterprise is a timely, essential read for C-suite executives, supply chain leaders, and procurement professionals at global enterprises navigating AI transformation and the reshoring wave reshaping manufacturing.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Praise For The Predictive Enterprise
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• AI Disclosure
• Foreword
• Introduction: The Power of Process in the Predictive Enterprise
• 1 Why AI Is Transforming Procurement and Supply Chain at Large Enterprises
• 2 Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Unforgiving Need for Speed
• 3 Better Deals, Faster: Overcoming the Speed and Cost Double Bind
• 4 Better Deals, Safer: Overcoming the Supplier Rationalization and Resiliency Double Bind
• 5 Better Deals, Easier: Overcoming the Scale and Bandwidth Double Bind
• 6 Facing the Uncomfortable Truth About Status Quo Enterprise Transformation Projects
• 7 AI Agents, AI Employees, and Service‐as‐Software
• 8 Winning the Business Case for the Predictive Enterprise
• 9 Fears, Anxieties, and Dependencies Regarding Enterprise Data Quality Issues for AI
• 10 AI Robots in Factories and Warehouses
• 11 Why Procurement and Supply Chain Hold the Keys to Responsible AI Governance Across the Enterprise
• 12 The Part About Vibes, Morale, and Enthusiasm: What We Talk About When We Talk About Procurement and Supply Chain Transformations
• Conclusion: Leadership Playbook to Win Your First 100 Days in the Predictive Enterprise
• AI and The Techno‐Industrial Revolution
• Postscript: We Asked 5 Leading Supply Chain and Manufacturing Futurists and 2 AI Models About How AI Will Change Supply Chain and Manufacturing over the Next 10 Years
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Index
• End User License Agreement