River Logic
Supply chain leaders on sustainability, resilience, and the future of value chains.
River Logic produces Real Talks, a video series featuring technology and business leaders discussing supply chain strategy, value chain optimization, and business continuity. Topics include sustainability, circular economy, and the role of prescriptive analytics in enterprise decision-making. The channel is a resource for supply chain executives seeking peer perspectives on complex operational challenges.
Value chain optimization reframes supply disruption as competitive edge.
River Logic argues that real-time financial simulation of supply chain decisions—not spreadsheets—lets companies exploit tariffs, demand shifts, and port delays as strategic advantage rather than scramble reactively.
River Logic's core argument is that value chain optimization (VCO) fundamentally reframes how companies respond to disruption. Rather than treating tariffs, weather events, and shifting demand as pure cost burdens, the platform enables leaders to simulate the financial and operational impact of sourcing, production, and pricing decisions in real time, turning reactive scrambling into strategic opportunity.
Drawn from Build a Supply Chain That Bounces Back and 2 more →
“Instead of waiting weeks for spreadsheet-driven analysis, leaders can now simulate complex what-if scenarios in real time.”
Episode 6: Ask Better Questions. Get Smarter Answers. VCO in Action
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Who and what shows up
Aaron Berg
VP of River Logic Strategy
Primary voice across the 2025 tariff and VCO content series, articulating the core argument that disruption is strategic opportunity.
Carlos Centurion
President at River Logic
Explains how technology and data analytics enable high-level market studies and streamlined decision-making compared to previous methods; frames value chain concept.
Terese Hunwick
VP of Supply Chain at Eco Material Technologies
Concrete practitioner voice describing how River Logic's partnership enabled real-time problem-solving and network optimization for supply chain decisions.
Philip Higginbotham
Vice President of Corporate Development at River Logic
Explains how digital twins help businesses learn profit behavior, avoid unintended consequences, and leverage flexible modeling for unique constraints.
Camilo Orbegozo
Director of Solution Design at River Logic
Demonstrates end-to-end platform for infrastructure strategy and capacity planning using real US supply chain data (59 customers, 22 distribution centers, 16 plants).
Questions this channel answers
How does value chain optimization differ from traditional supply chain planning?
VCO extends beyond supply chain models by integrating operational decisions with real financial impacts, enabling rapid what-if simulation of profitability at every level, rather than relying on static costs and spreadsheet-driven analysis.
What is Value Chain Optimization—and Why It Matters Now →How can companies turn tariff disruptions into competitive advantage?
By using VCO to quickly model shifts in sourcing, manufacturing, and make-vs-buy decisions, companies can capitalize on change through strategic reshoring and production repositioning before competitors respond.
From Tariff Shock to Strategic Advantage →What is a digital planning twin and how does it prevent costly mistakes?
A digital planning twin is a comprehensive model that represents the entire value chain, demand function, and financial model at engineering quality. It allows companies to learn profit behavior and avoid unintended consequences by simulating decisions before execution.
What is a Digital Planning Twin? →What real-world problems can value chain optimization solve?
VCO drives impact across network design, manufacturing strategy, strategic sourcing, customer-level profitability, capital investment decisions, sustainability planning, and last-mile delivery optimization.
From Network Design to Profitability: Real-World VCO Use… →How does cost modeling in a digital planning twin differ from traditional estimates?
Rather than providing fixed costs, River Logic's approach breaks costs into essential drivers: raw materials, procurement options, labor, and production throughput, enabling prediction of true financial outcomes at different production volumes.
Cost Model within a Digital Planning Twin →Best place to start
What is Value Chain Optimization—and Why It Matters NowClearest definition of VCO and its distinction from traditional supply chain models, with concrete what-if examples and use cases.
From Tariff Shock to Strategic AdvantageEncapsulates the channel's core thesis: how disruption becomes competitive edge through rapid scenario modeling and reshoring decisions.Industry context
Supply chain planning is shifting from reactive firefighting to unified, real-time decision models driven by AI-powered simulation and impact analysis across functional silos.
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