Devillieres: Shein runs its $8B supply chain with just 40 data scientists
Renan Devillieres · Investing in the Future of AI-Driven Manufacturing with OSS Ventures · Aug 27, 2025 · at 24:04
Renan Devillieres of OSS Ventures provides Shein as a real-world example of highly leveraged, rules-based supply chain management.
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“The supply chain department of Sheen is 40 data scientists, and they are running an eight billion sales operation with like thousands of factories in the way because the control point is on the rules and not on the system.”
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