890: AI Meets Manufacturing Reality: Lessons From Catalyst Detroit W/ Jim Cahalan

Podcast: Art of Procurement · Philip Ideson

Opublikowano: 2026-11-02

Most AI conversations in procurement still stall at the use case. Direct materials teams can't afford that luxury when a botched implementation can shut down a customer's plant and rack up half a million dollars a day in penalties. Manufacturing leaders are asking harder questions about how AI runs inside complex supply chains, who owns the judgment calls, and what value procurement brings beyond another few points of savings. In this week's episode, Philip Ideson is joined by Jim Cahalan, Director of Events at Art of Procurement, to look back at Catalyst Detroit. It was A...