Supply doesn’t normally make headlines — but it surely quietly makes every thing else potential. It’s the place technique meets execution, and more and more, the place Synthetic Intelligence (AI) meets impression. And that’s precisely what Ashok Raghupathy does at Salesforce: flip daring concepts into working merchandise.
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Driving AI-powered supply at Salesforce: Inside Ashok’s world
When Ashok Raghupathy talks about his work, he doesn’t begin with buzzwords or lofty visions. He begins with impression. “As a Supply Director, my first job is to make sure that what we’re constructing is scalable, high-performing, and aligns with what the shopper actually wants,” he says. “The position is about translating enterprise technique into real-world supply.”
Ashok leads a high-performing workforce inside Salesforce’s World Supply Facilities (GDCs), a key a part of the Buyer Success Group. However what units his work aside is the dimensions — and the velocity — at which innovation occurs.
From roadmap to actuality
Ashok’s position is complicated. On the floor, it’s about managing groups and guaranteeing well timed challenge supply. However behind the scenes, it’s about understanding enterprise objectives, figuring out supply gaps, and consistently aligning options to buyer expectations.
“We spend a variety of time working intently with our enterprise stakeholders and different inside groups,” Ashok explains. “If you happen to don’t perceive what the enterprise actually needs to realize, your supply can be misaligned, irrespective of how properly it’s executed.”
This shut loop between enterprise wants and execution is what makes the Director of Supply position so essential at Salesforce — particularly at a time when AI is revolutionizing each layer of labor. With Salesforce investing closely in agentic and generative AI, Ashok finds himself on the centre of a supply transformation, one which’s redefining how skilled providers are imagined and executed.
Ashok (second from left) and his workforce learn skilled growth books collectively. [Image credit: Ashok Raghupathy / Salesforce]
Agentforce: The AI copilot for supply
Ashok’s workforce was one of many early adopters of Agentforce, an AI-powered assistant that’s all the time on, skilled with what you are promoting data to assist staff or prospects get issues completed — quicker and smarter. It’s already reshaping how supply groups function throughout the GDCs.
“Agentforce has helped us with issues like check case era and code era. These are historically effort-heavy, however now we are able to transfer quicker,” he says.
The platform additionally permits supply leaders to determine dangers early. By historic information and patterns, Agentforce flags initiatives that will want course correction — earlier than they go off-track. Meaning fewer surprises, higher planning, and finally, extra predictable supply.
However Ashok is obvious: AI shouldn’t be right here to switch individuals. It’s right here to boost their means to do strategic work.
“We nonetheless want human judgment,” he says. “The architect has to have a look at the code, check it for scalability, safety, and efficiency. At present, I’m main a workforce of over 100 architects who’re extraordinarily competent in Salesforce. On common, they’ve about 15 Salesforce certifications and include 12 plus years of implementation expertise.
With Agentforce serving to us with the heavy lifting, we’re ready to make use of their experience for what issues.”
Buyer success: The north star for Salesforce supply groups
Each resolution in Ashok’s playbook ties again to one in all Salesforce’s core values: buyer success.
“Once we ship one thing, it ought to proceed working for the shopper—not simply at this time, however over time,” he says. “Salesforce ships three main releases a 12 months. Meaning something constructed at this time have to be future-proof, suitable with the subsequent platform replace, and resilient towards change. We ensure our options are scalable, safe, and stable- that’s non-negotiable.”
Alongside comparable traces of reasoning is the corporate’s push for reusability. “We’ve began rewarding our groups for constructing elements which are reusable,” Ashok says. “Let’s say you create a workflow for a sure use case—why ought to we reinvent the wheel the subsequent time?”
These belongings undergo a evaluation course of and are saved in a central repository (Companies Central), the place different groups can uncover and reuse them. It’s a system that saves time, will increase consistency, and boosts supply high quality at scale- making reusability is a pressure multiplier.
Why the Director of Supply position issues
Ashok and his household [Image credit: Ashok Raghupathy / Salesforce]
The Director of Supply is not only a challenge proprietor — they’re a strategic chief who connects the dots between product imaginative and prescient, buyer wants, and execution. It’s a job for somebody who can assume deeply, lead decisively, and scale neatly.
It’s additionally a job on the frontier of AI-powered innovation. With platforms like Agentforce quickly evolving, the chance to form how Salesforce builds, delivers, and operates is barely rising.
Ashok and his workforce are already experimenting with how AI can transcend ideation—writing consumer tales, accelerating testing, even predicting supply timelines.
“Discover ways to work with AI, not round it,” he says. “That’s the place the longer term is headed.”
The instruments are altering. The expectations are shifting. However for individuals who can deliver strategic considering, supply excellence, and a willingness to guide with expertise—the chances are vast open.
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