Executive Intelligence podcast - Blue Yonder CEO Duncan Angove on pragmatic AI for supply chain, change management, and platform thinking

When Duncan Angove joined Blue Yonder as CEO in late 2021, shortly after Panasonic's acquisition, the supply chain world was in chaos. COVID-19 had exposed what Angove described as an "emperor has no clothes" moment for supply chain managers and CEOs alike. Add in the Suez blockage, regional conflicts, and shifting industrial policy, and the case for rethinking how supply chains operate was strong.

As I noted in our coverage of Blue Yonder's ICON 2025 conference, Angove had a challenging task ahead of him: transforming not just Blue Yonder, but an entire industry's approach to supply chain technology. Angove argued that the industry and buyers needed to stop thinking about supply chain as a collection of point solutions (one WMS vendor here, a different TMS there, perhaps twelve different planning tools) and start thinking about it as an end-to-end platform that enables cross-functional collaboration and orchestration.

As ...