Meet Bob Rogers, PhD & CEO at Provide Chain Design And Optimisation Firm: Oii.ai

Oii.ai is a provide chain design and optimisation firm that makes it doable to run provide chains effectively, whatever the disruptions and challenges that firms encounter, native or world. That’s the core of Oii.ai. Optii is our AI-powered provide chain design and optimization product.

It’s SaaS (software program as a service) that may be deployed into an organization’s current provide chain infrastructure.
 
 

 

How did you give you the thought for the corporate, and what makes it distinctive?

4 years in the past, once I was first researching my guide “Demystifying AI for the Enterprise”, I used to be searching for consultants on provide chains in order that I may write the chapter on the topic. I reached out to an knowledgeable who would later develop into my co-founder, David Evans. He has a long time of expertise configuring provide chains.

He was the one who helped me perceive that the most important weak spot inside provide chains is that they run on the belief that the world is static. Not simply that, however I additionally found that the majority provide chains are designed and reconfigured manually, that means people are setting the parameters. However there might be 1000’s of parameters with 1000’s of situations. Human beings merely can’t sustain.

What makes Oii.ai distinctive is that our Optii system is ready to mannequin variables of provide chain variables, creating ‘what if/then’ situations. Then Optii supplies actionable perception, and that’s the place a human is available in: to make choices primarily based on Optii’s findings.
 

How has the corporate developed during the last couple of years?

 
Oii.ai has really been round for simply over a 12 months. We began it in 2021 and already we’ve been in a position to land very excessive profile purchasers, particularly within the healthcare and meals distribution sectors.

With each shopper, we be taught increasingly more about the right way to uniquely tailor the system to deal with their ache factors: whether or not they wish to optimize stock, cut back discards, enhance service, maximize manufacturing facility capability and extra.
 

What can we hope to see from Oii.ai sooner or later?

 
I anticipate to see Oii.ai enhance on our potential to create new provide chain paradigms. Ones by which it’s doable to assist purchasers frequently adapt to modifications within the circumstances of the availability chain, and to maintain provide chains working at peak efficiency, the place peak efficiency is set by the corporate that’s working the availability chain.

So, for example, for those who care extra about stock, then stock is emphasised. When you care extra about eliminating discards or carbon, then that’s our focus. The concept is, if organizations can depend on AI to do the repetitive, tedious duties, then the availability chain can robotically adapt to the circumstances to maintain performing and reaching service targets on the optimum stage.