You can’t automate excellence in supply chain without intentional engineering – Adenuga

In the global race to streamline logistics and supply chain operations, Toluwanimi Adenuga is more than an engineer, she’s a systems visionary. From Nigeria to the innovation corridors of FedEx and Amazon, Toluwanimi’s work redefines what it means to lead with both precision and purpose in one of the world’s most critical industries.

“You can’t automate excellence in the supply chain without intentional engineering,” she tells Tribune. “It’s not about throwing tools at problems, it’s about designing frameworks that reflect clarity, empathy, and scale.”

That ethos shaped her groundbreaking work at FedEx, where she led a redesign of the Fedex last mile delivery network that drastically supported the end of the Fedex USPS dependency and boosted regional throughput. “FedEx taught me resilience and on the ground execution,” she says. “I learned how to lead without waiting for a title.”

Now at Amazon, she’s bringing that same mindset to the global stage. As a Capital Planning Lead, Toluwanimi has influenced a significant amount in infrastructure funding across Amazon Air, Prime Air (Drone), and Pharmacy. Her frameworks didn’t just unlock capital, they reshaped how funding strategies inform the evolution of pharmaceutical, air logistics and tech driven supply chains.

“When I was asked to lead capital planning across multiple business units, I wasn’t just thinking about numbers,” she explains. “I was thinking about building a repeatable system where decisions were backed by transparency, and everyone from engineers to executives felt a sense of ownership.”

Her thinking goes beyond short term fixes. She’s designing systems for anticipatory logistics where processes react before bottlenecks form.

“At the core of everything I do is a simple question: how do we engineer better decisions before we touch hardware or people?” she says. “That’s the future of logistics, knowing before you build.”

Her rise is especially significant at a time when global logistics faces unprecedented stress from labor shortages to demand volatility. Toluwanimi’s ability to fuse engineering, logistics, supply chain and foresight positions her at the helm of a quiet revolution in how supply chains scale sustainably.

And though she’s now based in California, her impact stretches far beyond the US reaching European Continent. Toluwanimi spearheaded the capital enablement of new facility construction and conveyor equipment retrofits across the US and Europe, advancing Amazon’s strategic expansion into healthcare, drone logistics, and next gen fulfillment networks.

Besides, she led the development and delivery of executive level capital investment strategies using ROI driven value summaries across over 100 projects and securing approximately 150 million dollars in capital investment.

She represents a new class of African professionals not only thriving globally but also reimagining global systems through the lens of intentional design.

“Leadership in engineering isn’t about being loud, it’s about building systems that last,” she says. “You don’t just optimize for speed or cost; you build for trust, resilience, and impact.”
Toluwanimi Adenuga is proof that when engineering meets vision, logistics become more than delivery, it becomes destiny.