E373 Sivakumar Lakshmanan, CEO at Antuit.ai, a Zebra Technologies company

Today's guest is Sivakumar Lakshmanan, CEO of Antuit.ai, a Zebra Technologies company. Founded in 2013 in Dallas, Texas, Antuit.ai is rethinking the way consumer products and retail companies use AI to solve real business problems. They offer solutions that inform the most important business decisions, from supply chain to merchandising to marketing, empowering world-class retail and consumer products companies to digitally transform their businesses to achieve substantial business results.

Sivakumar has extensive experience in driving supply chain transformation leveraging advanced analytics. He has advised many Fortune 500 companies on demand forecasting, supply chain planning, network design, and inventory optimization across CPG, Retail and Manufacturing.  He joined antuit.ai in 2013 as a Partner and lead for developing new business in Asia. In his current role as a member of the Executive team and head of Forecasting and Supply Chain business unit, Sivakumar is responsible for driving revenue growth, client success and thought leadership.

In the episode, Sivakumar will discuss:

Antuit’s interesting work within the supply chain sector,

An overview of the challenges they solve for customers,

How the data & tech team is set up for success,

What a typical project life-cycle looks like,

Why Antuit is a great place to work,

The future of Antuit and AI in supply chain, and

Plans for further growing the team