Five years ago, I founded Intelichain.
The idea started much earlier...
I had spent years managing supply chains in big global companies, running a manufacturing plant in South Carolina, and later advising companies as senior manager at EY Supply Chain Consulting service.
Everywhere I went, I saw the same thing:
Very smart people making very important decisions with a heroic amount of Excel.
Too much manual work...
Too many disconnected systems...
Not enough time to actually think...
At the same time, I became fascinated by algorithms, AI, machine learning and data science.
Eventually, I thought:
There has to be a better way!
That thought actually became Intelichain.
I still remember the first day...
Peak COVID-19! Supply chains were in chaos. AI was still mostly a "buzzword".
I was sitting alone in an office thinking:
Great. Now how exactly do you build a company?
Fast forward five years.
Today, Intelichain has dozens of employees, dozens of customers, global companies using our platform, and implementations across almost every continent.
What started with better demand planning grew into Demand AI, Supply AI, S&OP, decision support and now production planning (Production AI - coming soon!).
But the thing I am most proud of is not the technology.
It is the impact.
Seeing customers plan better.
Make smarter decisions.
Reduce manual work.
And actually enjoy planning a little more.
The journey was not smooth.
There were months when I genuinely did not know how I would make payroll.
Deals disappeared.
Things broke.
We made mistakes.
There were many sleepless nights.
But we kept going...
One customer.
One release.
One improvement at a time.
And somewhere along the way, I learned something important:
The best thing I built was not the product. It was the TEAM!
Today I get to work with incredible people from supply chain, consulting, data science, product and technology. And of course, my amazing co-founder Yonatan Stern who opened my eyes time after time and made me a much better entrepreneur and CEO.
Together, we are trying to do something quite simple:
Move supply chain planning from yesterday’s tools to the AI era.
Five years later, I am grateful for how far we have come.
And very excited about how far we still have to go.
Five years of Intelichain.
Still building.
Still learning.
Still hungry.
And yes... still using some Excel every now and then :-)
BTW, a little personal fact:
the picture I attached was taken on my very first day. Just me, sitting in an empty room with a big dream, starting to build what I believed could become the supply chain of tomorrow. Looking at it today makes the journey feel even more special.
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