Episodios

  • Inside American Eagle's AI-Driven Logistics Optimization

    Inside American Eagle's AI-Driven Logistics Optimization
    Jun 19 2025
    Host Diego Solorzano sits down with Gabriella Runnels, Principal Data Scientist at American Eagle Outfitters, to explore how AEO combines tried-and-true mathematical optimization with cutting-edge AI to solve complex supply chain challenges. Learn how the team built four interconnected apps to slash costs, improve service levels, and even offer these capabilities to smaller brands via Quiet Platforms. Gabriella also shares her philosophy on change management, data quality, and why the future belongs to supply chain professionals who leverage AI without losing human creativity.
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    26 m
  • Michael Watson - AI vs. Optimization: What you wanted to know but were afraid to ask

    Michael Watson - AI vs. Optimization: What you wanted to know but were afraid to ask
    Mar 7 2025
    This week, we talked with Michael Watson, an optimization legend with decades of experience. Michael got a PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences from Northwestern before joining IBM. Afterwards, he founded his own company, Opex Analytics, which helped companies become more efficient through implementing ML. The company was acquired by LLamasoft and later by Coupa software. Ever since, he’s been a professor at Northwestern where he teaches optimization.
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    42 m
  • Mike Venditti - Happy Employees = Better Supply Chains (Supply Chain Optimizers #3)

    Mike Venditti - Happy Employees = Better Supply Chains (Supply Chain Optimizers #3)
    Feb 12 2025
    This week, we spoke with Mike Venditti. Mike has been in the supply chain world for 30 years dealing with all parts of the business from transportation to warehousing. He is a strong believer that people make supply chains and the best thing you can do to improve delivery times, is to treat workers better. Now, he works at SEKO logistics where he is the VP of supply chain, second only to the company’s CMO or Chief Morale Officer…his dog, Archie!
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    43 m
  • Episode #2 (Carlos Armando Zetina) - “All models are wrong (but some of them are useful)”

    Episode #2 (Carlos Armando Zetina) - “All models are wrong (but some of them are useful)”
    Jan 29 2025
    In optimization, there is often a gap between the discoveries of academia and the real world applications for most systems. That’s what we talked about with Carlos Armando Zetina this week—a PhD who jumped from academia to Amazon SCOT to work on real life implications of optimization research.
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    42 m
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