Million Dollar Baby Planning Meets Supply Chain Agility: A Conversation with Julia Bedanova

June 24, 2026

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Show Description

From Nursery to Network – Orchestrating Agility with Julia Bedanova

In this episode of Let’s Wine About Supply Chain, we pour a glass and dive deep into the career of Julia Bedanova, the Chief Operating Officer at Million Dollar Baby Co.

Julia shares her journey leading operations for a premier name in children’s furnishings and discusses the unique complexities of managing a high-growth manufacturing and retail brand in the era of the Great Reconfiguration.

Stay tuned for the live Q&A – the best audience question will win a free bottle of wine!

What you will take away:

The Transition from Scribe to Steward: A primary takeaway is the necessity of moving the workforce away from manual data entry and “firefighting” (Scribes) toward roles as “Stewards” who govern AI-driven systems and focus on strategic trade-off negotiations.
The End of Deterministic Planning: The session highlights why legacy, deterministic systems that plan for “averages” are failing in 2026. The takeaway is the need for Probabilistic Reasoning—modeling a range of possibilities to thrive within uncertainty.
Bridging the Data Readiness Gap: Audiences will understand the “intelligence vacuum” caused by the fact that only a small % of enterprise data is AI-ready. A key lesson is the mandate for Data Normalization to ensure AI initiatives actually scale.
Human-Machine Augmentation: A critical lesson is that the future is about Augmentation, Not Replacement. Winning organizations will blend machine precision with human socio-emotional intelligence and strategic trade-off capabilities.