A practical guide to autonomous planning
Abstract
Autonomous planning provides supply chain organisations with higher-quality plans and decisions, increased agility and scalability. Many organisations, however, struggle to achieve these benefits due to misunderstanding of the capabilities required to plan autonomously, lack of vision and strategy, poor stakeholder alignment and resistance within the planning organisation. This paper introduces a definition framework for autonomous planning and provides a practical approach to maturing autonomous planning capabilities. This seven-step process is grounded in the successful autonomous planning journey of Micron Technology.
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Author's Biography
Matt Draper leads Micron’s Supply Chain Optimization team, which is responsible for establishing global supply chain policies based on operations research and data science models, defining future supply chain capabilities, product design for supply chain, and inventory and customer service-level performance management. Matt’s career has focused on the intersection of supply chain and advanced analytics in both the semiconductor and sportswear industries. Matt holds a Master’s in industrial engineering and operations research from the University of California, Berkeley.
Shiva Esturi is Vice President of Global Supply Chain Management at Micron, responsible for end-to-end supply chain orchestration in order to achieve customer requirements, on time and at cost. Shiva has spent his 25-year career in the semiconductor industry with a focus on all aspects of planning. He has several publications, regularly lectures at universities and conferences in the US and India and sits on multiple industry advisory councils. Shiva holds a Master’s in industrial engineering and operations research from the Indian Institute of Management – Mumbai.
Citation
Draper, Matt and Esturi, Shiva (2025, February 26). A practical guide to autonomous planning. In the Journal of Supply Chain Management, Logistics and Procurement, Volume 7, Issue 3. https://doi.org/10.69554/FLIT2997.
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