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AI adoption in supply chains faces data and change hurdles, experts say

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Supply chain executives are increasingly looking to integrate AI into their operations to manage growing complexity and disruptions, but face significant hurdles such as poor data quality and resistance to organizational change. Experts suggest a four-pillar approach: focusing on business outcomes, ensuring data readiness, aligning AI use cases with these outcomes, and leading organizational change. Current AI deployments often stop at providing insights or alerts, rather than enabling autonomous action, which is seen as the next frontier for AI in supply chains to reduce costs and improve efficiency. AI

IMPACT AI integration in supply chains is crucial for managing complexity and reducing disruption costs, but requires overcoming data and organizational challenges to enable autonomous action.

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. Forbes — Innovation TIER_1 English(EN) · Mark Burstein, Forbes Councils Member ·

    Supply Chain Executives Must Bring AI Into Their Operations. Here's How To Start

    Companies that successfully implement AI begin by identifying three to five business processes that are clearly inefficient.

  2. Artificial Intelligence News TIER_1 English(EN) · Ryan Daws ·

    Supply chains detect fast, act slow: How AI agents fix it

    <p>Supply chain disruption cost businesses about $184 billion in 2025, according to the J.S. Held Global Risk Report, and most of that bill still buys faster detection, not faster action. That figure is usually treated as weather (i.e. storms happen, costs follow.) Treated as a p…

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