The Predictive Enterprise: How Superhuman Supply Chains Transform Global Business by Zagorin, Edmund

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.

Author: Edmund Zagorin
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 10/05/2026
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.11h x 5.91w x 1.11d
ISBN: 9781394370511

About the Author

EDMUND ZAGORIN is an American entrepreneur and inventor specializing in applications of artificial intelligence within supply chains. He is the founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Arkestro, the leading predictive procurement platform. Zagorin holds numerous patents for AI inventions and was recognized by the Institute for Supply Management as Supply Chain Management Executive of the Year in 2024.