aleks/sidorecs
// operations meet the algorithm

Operating models were designed for people to run.
Now the algorithm is in the loop.

// what does aleks sidorecs work on?

Most operating models still assume a human at every decision point and software that waits to be told. That assumption is breaking. I work on what replaces it - how supply chains, physical operations, business architecture and AI are redesigned together.

Who is writing → Heuristics → Notebooks →
Aleks Sidorecs Aleks Sidorecs Supply Chain, Operations and Technology Transformation Leader LinkedIn

// three things at once

01

Operating models

Who decides, at what speed, with what information - the design of the loop itself, not the org chart around it.

02

Physical operations

Two decades in global supply chains, from P&G logistics to soft commodities. The rules here were paid for on real shop floors.

03

The algorithm

Agentic AI, orchestration and decision systems - where they belong in an operating model, and where they only add cost.

// insights

all insights →
  1. chapter Problem statement: what I'm solving Zero-shot models in supply chain

    Alternative methods also existed, but getting from a table to a proper forecast or prediction was always a painful project.

  2. article What does supply chain orchestration actually orchestrate? sidorecs.com

    Orchestrate inside the walls, but calibrate beyond them.

  3. article Why process maps don't tell you what to delegate to an AI agent ↗ Automatiqa Lab

    A process map shows how work moves, not where it waits on a decision or which decision fails. Readiness is a property of one decision, not a company.

  4. article The Intelligent Orchestration Manifesto ↗ Automatiqa Lab

    The structural argument for why coordination in physical operations, human for twenty-three centuries, is moving from people to systems.

  5. article The Invisible Chain - an event about AI in supply chain, but the biggest lever is different ↗ LinkedIn

    Reflections on The Invisible Chain. The room ranked internal complexity five to one over external disruption, and put the operating model ahead of AI as the lever.

// heuristics

all heuristics →
Asymmetric supply chain physics
heuristic 02

Asymmetric supply chain physics

Symmetric vs asymmetric supply chains, and the Outside Variance Ratio that tells you which one you're in.

Diagnose the shape before you prescribe the cure.
 Requisite variety in supply chain
heuristic 01

Requisite variety in supply chain

Any operation can absorb only as much variation as it has responses for. The Variety Shortfall Test finds where it loses.

Match the variety or pay for the difference.

// events

all events →
Panel 4 at the 17th SCTA Forum in Montreux, 2 October 2026 - Aleks Sidorecs on the screen and seated far left, with the other panellists and the moderator
panellist · Montreux

17th SCTA Forum & Dinner

Panel 4 - From Bottlenecks to Flow: Rethinking Coffee Logistics

I joined the logistics panel at the Swiss Coffee Trade Association's 17th Forum in Montreux with Dany Barkha of Sucafina, José Luis Pérez of Commodity Supplies AG, Mirja Nibbe of CMA CGM and Christian Jacob Hansen of the Global Maritime Forum, moderated by Dean Sanders of Etymos. The question was how coffee moves beyond reactive crisis management to connected flow across ports, shipping, data and forecasting.

event page ↗ my reflections ↗
CIPS Denmark webinar poster - The Expert Q&A Panel on AI-enabled Negotiation Preparation with Elisabeth Schlag-Lawrence, Aleks Sidorecs and Dr. Charlotte de Brabandt, 28 September 2026
panellist · Online

AI-enabled Negotiation Preparation

The Expert Q&A Panel - CIPS Denmark webinar

I joined the expert panel at the CIPS Denmark webinar with Elisabeth Schlag-Lawrence of CatalystProcurement and Dr. Charlotte de Brabandt of ZF Group. After start-ups showcased their AI tools for negotiation preparation, we stress-tested them with our own questions, then took the audience's live.

event page ↗
// where the thinking gets built

The rules and arguments here are the practitioner's side. The tools that test them - agents, forecasting harnesses, document control, an orchestration kernel - are built in public at Automatiqa Lab, a separate lab I founded for exactly that.

The structural argument is the Intelligent Orchestration Manifesto.

— aleks sidorecs