Arkestro Co-Founder and Procurement Expert Edmund Zagorin Launches Latest Book, The Predictive Enterprise: How Superhuman Supply Chains Transform Global Business

Featuring a foreword from former GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt, the book examines how predictive AI is reshaping procurement, supply chains and enterprise decision-making.

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Edmund Zagorin, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Arkestro, today announced the launch of his new book, The Predictive Enterprise: How Superhuman Supply Chains Transform Global Business, at DPW Amsterdam. Published by Wiley, the book breaks down how companies can move beyond AI experimentation and put predictive technology to work against some of their most consequential business challenges.

Today's global enterprises are rife with persistent supply-chain volatility, shifting trade conditions and pressure to show the returns from their AI investments. The Predictive Enterprise, Zagorin's first book, argues the next phase of enterprise transformation will be defined by which organizations redesign how decisions get made.

The Predictive Enterprise is available for pre-order today and will be widely available for purchase on October 5, 2026. Zagorin will introduce the book at DPW Amsterdam and host a signing for conference attendees at Arkestro's booth on September 30, at 12:30 p.m. CEST. The book launch coincides with Arkestro's announcement of its growing customer footprint and momentum across EMEA.

"AI is advancing much faster than the processes most large enterprises have built around it," said Zagorin. "The opportunity isn't simply to automate the processes we already have. It's to predict the outcome, understand the constraints, and reverse engineer the best next steps to get there. The Predictive Enterprise is about what that shift looks like in practice, and how organizations can make better decisions faster and at greater scale."

Drawing on interviews with Global 2000 executives and Zagorin's career-long work across procurement, supply chain, AI and enterprise technology, the book explores how predictive AI can help companies redesign decision-making around measurable outcomes. It also reflects a broader leadership challenge highlighted in Jeff Immelt's foreword: using AI to drive tangible value in functions like procurement and supply chain, where speed, margin and risk are directly at stake.

"This book explores how large global enterprises have laid the groundwork for this predictive future with measurable returns. It shows how their finance, procurement, and supply chain teams are using the Predictive Enterprise to expand margin and focus more of their best people's time where it matters most," Jeff Immelt, former Chairman and CEO of GE, writes in the foreword. "It's not about people versus AI. It's about people using AI outperforming people who aren't using AI."

The book also examines recurring enterprise "double binds," where procurement teams are asked to balance priorities that can appear to conflict, such as reducing supplier count while strengthening supply chain resilience. Zagorin explores how predictive systems can model those constraints before a process begins, helping teams identify paths that improve multiple outcomes at once. That same thinking underpins Arkestro, which Zagorin co-founded with CEO Rob DeSantis to bring predictive decision-making into enterprise procurement.

Zagorin will bring the book's themes to Arkestro's annual Optimal conference in Houston, October 13–15, where procurement, supply chain, finance and operations leaders will explore how AI and predictive procurement are changing enterprise decision-making. Through customer stories, executive panels and hands-on sessions, the event will examine many of the same questions at the heart of The Predictive Enterprise, including how organizations can move faster, expand capacity and improve business outcomes at scale.

The Predictive Enterprise: How Superhuman Supply Chains Transform Global Business will be available beginning October 5, 2026. Preorder it here. 

About Arkestro
Arkestro is the leading predictive procurement platform, accelerating enterprise spend transformation and supply chain agility. By combining AI and game theory with Arkestro's patented three science technologies—Negotiation Science, Supplier Science, and Process Science—Arkestro shifts traditional procurement to become a proactive, results-driven function. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies across industries, Arkestro unlocks trapped savings, optimizes negotiations, and enhances supplier collaboration. Arkestro is hosting its annual Optimal conference in Houston, TX, on October 13–15, 2026. Explore what it means to Unlock the Predictive Advantage and register at www.arkestro-optimal.com.

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