SC Networks helps organizations close the gap — building the operating models, decision architectures, and capabilities that turn AI potential into supply chain performance.
It fails because the organization isn't structured to act on what AI recommends. The decisions aren't clear. The workflows haven't changed. The talent isn't ready. SC Networks addresses all three.
Organization
Decision rights, clearly owned
Who decides what, at what speed, with what information. Clarity here is the prerequisite for everything else.
Workflow
Processes rebuilt for AI-speed
The processes that worked in a weekly planning cycle don't work when AI is surfacing signals daily. Workflows must be rebuilt, not patched.
Talent
Teams that know how to use it
Supply chain professionals who understand AI outputs, question them intelligently, and act on them with confidence.
The framework
The Decision-First Operating Model
Our proprietary framework for aligning AI investment with supply chain outcomes. Three converging capabilities — Organization, Workflow, Talent — directed at a single point: better decisions, faster.
What we do
Built for supply chain leaders making high-stakes AI bets.
We work with a small number of organizations at a time. Our engagements are structured, specific, and built around your decisions — not generic playbooks.
Advisory
AI Readiness Assessment
A structured evaluation of where your organization stands against the three dimensions of the Decision-First Operating Model. Clear output: what's working, what's blocking, what to do next.
Strategy
Operating Model Design
Designing the decision architecture your supply chain needs to act on AI at speed. Roles, governance, escalation paths, and the KPIs that actually tell you if it's working.
Enablement
Capability Building
Structured programs that build AI fluency across supply chain teams — from planners to executives. Grounded in your actual tools, your actual data, your actual decisions.
Speaking
Keynotes & Executive Programs
Research-driven perspectives on supply chain AI for industry conferences, boards, and leadership teams. Current engagements include KinexiOn and the OMP Inspiration Series.
Retainer
Ongoing Advisory
For technology providers and enterprise teams who need sustained, expert perspective — not a one-time engagement. Structured access to SC Networks thinking, on your timeline.
Dear CSCO
Writing for supply chain leaders navigating the AI transition.
Published on Substack. Direct, research-backed, and written for the executive making the actual decisions.
June 2025
The Org Chart Won't Save You
Why AI transformations stall — and it has nothing to do with the technology. The real failure mode is a decision architecture designed for a slower world.
Not prompt engineering. Not data science. The specific, practical capability that separates supply chain teams that are getting value from AI from those that aren't.
Pilots aren't failing because the AI doesn't work. They're failing because organizations aren't built to scale what works. A different way to think about where to start.
An independent supply chain AI advisory practice. Founded on the conviction that AI's biggest obstacle isn't technical — it's organizational.
SC Networks was founded by Noha Tohamy after 18 years as a VP Distinguished Analyst at Gartner, where she was among the most widely recognized voices in supply chain technology and strategy.
The practice exists because the question executives are actually asking — "how do we get real value from AI in our supply chain?" — doesn't have a vendor answer. It has an operating model answer. That's what SC Networks provides.
The Decision-First Operating Model is SC Networks' core framework: a structured approach to building the organizational, workflow, and talent capabilities that let AI recommendations translate into better decisions.
SC Networks works with a small number of clients at a time, including enterprise supply chain organizations and the technology providers serving them.
Background
18 years, Gartner — VP Distinguished Analyst
Supply chain technology & AI strategy
Enterprise advisory across manufacturing, retail, CPG
Speaking
KinexiOn
OMP Inspiration Series
Writing
Dear CSCO — dearcsco.substack.com
Contact
Start a conversation.
SC Networks works with a limited number of organizations. If you're evaluating an AI investment, navigating an operating model change, or looking for a research-backed perspective — we'd like to hear from you.