Tech Explainers

While maturity levels vary for artificial intelligence in logistics and the supply chain, it has the potential to facilitate more accurate and efficient decision-making.

Shifting consumer demands, geopolitical uncertainty, labor constraints, and residual pandemic-era behaviors can all have a negative impact on supply chain management. As a result, more companies are leveraging AI in the supply chain to improve their supply chain resilience. 

Thanks to the versatility of its benefits — what business function wouldn’t want to have their mountains of data quickly analyzed? — AI can be applied to supply chain activities in numerous ways, and the future of AI in the supply chain is promising.

Infusing AI in the supply chain isn’t magic, but it can be an extremely powerful tool for supply chain management.

To be sure, the future of AI in the supply chain holds great promise for the companies that can successfully see their investments through.

While AI in the supply chain is far from a magic salve, both it and IoT can deliver an elevated level of visibility into the supply chain.

AI in the supply chain has many applications, not least of which includes logistics. While historically logistics teams may have operated in siloes and relied on manual, labor-intensive processes, they are now leaning into AI-powered tech to gain greater visibility into their operations.

Artificial intelligence can be used to quickly gather and analyze massive amounts of data flowing from a large number of sources. As a result, AI in the supply chain is a prime candidate for the tech investments that can move the needle in improving business performance.