Paul Manikas posts

Principal Industry Architect, Industry Solutions Delivery, Microsoft

As a Manufacturing industry architect, Paul works with senior business and IT leaders to help them understand how to apply Microsoft’s technologies and partner solutions to digitally transform their company. Leveraging over 35 years of manufacturing industry experience, Paul works with clients to build their transformations strategy, considering four key pillars of digital transformation: customer experience, operational excellence, workforce transformation and product-as-a-service.

Thought leadership

May 8, 2025

5 min read

Helping retailers and consumer goods organizations identify the most valuable agentic AI use cases

Customer conversations are shifting from generative AI to agentic AI, reflecting a growing recognition of agentic systems to augment AI’s potential to enhance business processes and drive innovation.
Thought leadership

February 13, 2025

6 min read

Enhancing supply chain efficiency in the retail and consumer goods industry with agentic systems

Agentic systems offer a revolutionary opportunity to enhance decision making quality and speed.
Thought leadership

December 9, 2024

5 min read

Delivering your supply chain copilot: Getting started on ideation

The integration of AI into supply chain management through a supply chain copilot allows for real-time visibility, optimized data management, and seamless interoperation across multiple elements.
Thought leadership

November 7, 2024

6 min read

Delivering your supply chain copilot: Prioritizing areas of ROI

As the world becomes increasingly complex, leading organizations are gravitating towards technology to accelerate supply chain optimization with greater speed and precision to shift the paradigm from a reactive mode of operating to one that is proactively getting ahead.