Aug 13, 2026 · 23 min · 9 segments
\*Hosted by Andrei Palamariu* Mitat Aydindag has built a global leadership career across Europe, Asia, and North America, leading supply chain transformation and logistics operations before becoming…
And Mithat, let's talk a little bit about trends and patterns that you see from talking with your clients, because it's been a crazy couple of years in supply chain and logistics, especially in the last few months with all the geopolitics involved, all the conflicts, all the bottlenecks around the globe.
But I'm wondering, with all the conversations you're having with the big tech players and can talk a lot afterwards about success stories, but what do you see as the trends? What's happening in the terms or in the minds of the heads of supply chain that you deal with?
The very dominant is, and very clear, and this is, I think, since five, six years, actually very clear, is that the volatility is not like a one-time effect anymore.
And it took a while, I think, because supply chain and logistics was always a cost matter to Many companies, but this resilience to be able to act also in difficult times, it comes with a cost.
You try to manage that cost, obviously, but it's not anymore just a cost play anymore.
You need to be able to manage also your supply chain under pressure, actually, but not a one off.
Second area, definitely, as you can imagine, everybody talks about it, the AI and the shift to AI.
Companies, and when I talked to them, met with one of our key clients last week, heavily invested into AI.
where they are looking to entire workflows to improve and to enable it with AI and workflows which you can repeat.
And Mithat, let's talk a little bit about trends and patterns that you see from talking with your clients, because it's been a crazy couple of years in supply chain and logistics, especially in the last few months with all the geopolitics involved, all the conflicts, all the bottlenecks around the globe.
But I'm wondering, with all the conversations you're having with the big tech players and can talk a lot afterwards about success stories, but what do you see as the trends? What's happening in the terms or in the minds of the heads of supply chain that you deal with?
The very dominant is, and very clear, and this is, I think, since five, six years, actually very clear, is that the volatility is not like a one-time effect anymore.
And it took a while, I think, because supply chain and logistics was always a cost matter to Many companies, but this resilience to be able to act also in difficult times, it comes with a cost.
You try to manage that cost, obviously, but it's not anymore just a cost play anymore.
You need to be able to manage also your supply chain under pressure, actually, but not a one off.
Second area, definitely, as you can imagine, everybody talks about it, the AI and the shift to AI.
Companies, and when I talked to them, met with one of our key clients last week, heavily invested into AI.
where they are looking to entire workflows to improve and to enable it with AI and workflows which you can repeat.
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