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Hanumantha R Gadila
Executive Director, Supply Chain Planning & External Manufacturing Product Line Lead
Merck
Speaker Bio
Hanumantha R. Gadila is Executive Director, Supply Chain Planning & External Manufacturing Product Line Lead. He is a seasoned transformation leader with extensive experience across Fortune 100 companies, Big 5 consulting, life sciences, supply chain planning, external manufacturing, and advanced planning systems. Throughout his career, he has helped organizations connect business strategy with technology execution, improve portfolio governance, and deliver scalable digital capabilities that create measurable enterprise value. He has delivered more than $30 million in business impact through operational excellence, disciplined execution, vendor strategy, RFP leadership, contract negotiations, and cross-functional collaboration. Known as a trusted advisor and pragmatic change leader, Hanumantha brings strategic clarity, strong stakeholder engagement, and a focus on outcomes to complex transformation programs. He is passionate about building high-performing teams, applying industry best practices, and enabling solutions that strengthen performance, collaboration, and long-term business results.
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Session
Tuesday, November 03, 2026 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM MST
Executive Story: Merck’s Transformation Journey — from Manual Firefighting to AI‑Accelerated Decisioning
Hanumantha R Gadila,
Executive Director, Supply Chain Planning & External Manufacturing Product Line Lead, Merck
Global supply chains are under pressure from demand volatility, forecast shifts, and complex constraints. For Merck’s planning organization, these challenges created manual reconciliation cycles, inconsistent decision-making, and limited ability to quickly model network impacts.
This session explores Merck’s Agentic AI transformation journey, from manual firefighting to AI-accelerated planning. Attendees will learn how intelligent agents, automated scenario generation, human-in-the-loop validation, and governance guardrails can help planners evaluate demand shocks, forecast changes, and expiry exposure with greater speed and confidence.
The discussion will provide a repeatable blueprint for operationalizing agentic workflows to improve resilience, planner productivity, decision quality, and cross-functional alignment while building a scalable foundation for intelligent supply chain operations. ... Show More Show Less
This session explores Merck’s Agentic AI transformation journey, from manual firefighting to AI-accelerated planning. Attendees will learn how intelligent agents, automated scenario generation, human-in-the-loop validation, and governance guardrails can help planners evaluate demand shocks, forecast changes, and expiry exposure with greater speed and confidence.
The discussion will provide a repeatable blueprint for operationalizing agentic workflows to improve resilience, planner productivity, decision quality, and cross-functional alignment while building a scalable foundation for intelligent supply chain operations. ... Show More Show Less