Gartner Expert

Balaji Abbabatulla helps Chief Supply Chain Officers manage the transition to the next-generation of supply chain management powered by AI technologies and supply chain orchestration platforms. He helps CSCO's define and refine their technology strategy and develop strategic relationships with software providers to partner them in their multi-phase, transformation journey.

Mr. Abbabatulla's research on next-gen supply chain capabilities such as supply chain orchestration platforms, using AI Agents, helps CSCO's plan their investments in an incremental, phased manner to fulfill short term goals and long term objectives. His insights on extensible, composable software architecture helps CSCOs define an elastic, AI-native technology stack that is designed to overcome business uncertainities such as global tariff uncertainities, unanticipated techno-nationalistic restrictions and supply chain network disruptions.

Mr. Abbabatulla's research on supply chain networks and ecosystems helps CSCOs adopt new business models enabling them to transition to a trusted, network-centric supply chain from the traditional buyer-centric supply chain. His research on combinatorial technologies involving blockchain, GenAI, classic AI and Agentic AI helps CSCOs to blend the most appropriate technologies to support this transition.

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