Kyle Rish
Head of Supply Chain Planning
Inventory planning used to revolve around a familiar question: how much stock do we need to meet expected demand? Today, that equation is far more complex.
Tariffs, shifting costs, uncertain lead times, changing service expectations and increasingly complex product portfolios mean supply chain teams have to make faster decisions with more variables, and less certainty. The challenge isn’t simply creating a more accurate forecast. It’s being able to understand the impact of change and decide what to do next.
Join Taaha Haq, VP Supply Chain at Tatcha, a Unilever brand, and Kyle Rish, Head of Supply Chain Planning at Pigment, for a practical conversation hosted by Supply Chain Digital on how leading supply chain teams are rethinking inventory planning for a more volatile environment.
Drawing on real-world experience from the beauty and tech sectors, Taaha and Kyle will explore how organizations can balance availability, resilience and working capital; respond to tariffs and cost changes through scenario planning; and better connect supply chain decisions with their financial impact.
They’ll also examine where AI can make a meaningful difference today, and where human judgment remains essential.
Key takeaways
In this session, you’ll learn how to:
- Rethink the inventory equation: Balance service levels, resilience, growth and working capital when traditional planning assumptions no longer hold.
- Plan for volatility, not just demand: Use scenarios to understand how changes in tariffs, costs, sourcing and lead times could affect inventory and margins before they happen.
- Turn disruption into faster decisions: Connect supply chain and finance assumptions so teams can quickly move from a new signal to an agreed response.
- Put AI to practical use: Understand where AI can help planners identify exceptions, interpret signals and accelerate analysis, and where human judgment still matters.
- Build a more adaptive planning capability: Learn how to sense change earlier, model its consequences faster and connect inventory decisions to financial outcomes.