AZTRA

AI Afterhours

Technology EN ↓ 6 episodes

AI Afterhours is a podcast from AZTRA featuring conversations on AI, decision intelligence, enterprise operations, and the real-world systems shaping how modern organizations work. Hosted by Sean Fleming, the show brings together business leaders, technical architects, operators, and advisors to discuss how companies move from raw data and fragmented signals to better decisions, stronger execution, and measurable outcomes. The podcast covers the practical side of AI in business. Rather than focusing on hype, AI Afterhours explores how AI is applied across forecasting, automation, IT operations...

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AI Afterhours: Optimizing Production & Inventory in Manufacturing 17.06.2026 1:09:06

Manufacturing teams don’t struggle with planning because they lack data. They struggle because the moment the plan meets the real world, something always moves. Season 1 of AI Afterhours, Signals & Noise, is about how organizations cut through noise, find the signals that matter, and turn them into better decisions. Episode 5: Optimizing Production & Inventory closes out the manufacturing...

AI Afterhours: Manufacturing with Dovient 08.05.2026 1:05:24

Manufacturing has not been slow to adopt AI because the industry is behind. On the shop floor, the cost of getting it wrong shows up before anyone can catch it. Season 1 of AI Afterhours, Signals & Noise , is about how organizations cut through noise, find the signals that matter, and turn them into better decisions. In Episode 4, Manufacturing with Dovient , I sat down with Shashank from Dovi...

AI Afterhours: Demand Forecasting in Retail 21.04.2026 50:45

Most retailers have a forecasting problem they have been solving the same way since 2010. The data has changed. The signals have multiplied. The planning systems have not caught up. Somewhere underneath the dashboards and the spreadsheets, a 2026 business is still running on 2010 logic. Season 1 of AI Afterhours, Signals & Noise , is about how organizations cut through noise, find the signals...

AI Afterhours: Margin Protection at Scale 07.04.2026 57:32

In this episode of AI Afterhours: Signals & Noise , Sean Fleming sits down with Bob Ntuaremba Leyo, Harsha Varun, and Varun Vemula to break down what margin protection at scale actually looks like in retail. This conversation goes beyond markdowns and promotions to get at the real issue. Margin erosion starts much earlier with poor allocation decisions, centralized planning assumptions, discon...

AI Afterhours: Retail & CPG 20.03.2026 40:55

Retail planning is still broken in a very familiar way. Too much historical logic. Not enough live signal. Too much cluster thinking. Not enough operating truth. In Episode 1 of AI Afterhours: Signals & Noise , I sat down with Bob, Harsha, and Varun to break down why stockouts, overstocks, and missed margin are usually not isolated failures. They are the downstream consequence of weak signals,...

AI Afterhours: Retail & CPG Preview 19.03.2026 1:04

A preview of Episode 1 of AI Afterhours featuring Bob Ntuaremba Leyo on why stores are not interchangeable. The same cluster on paper does not mean the same demand in reality. This clip gets into why local signals, hyper-localization, and operating truth matter if you want better planning, fewer stockouts, and less margin bleed.