technology
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The Cost-to-Serve Opportunity: Why Supply Chains Lose Profit Without Seeing It
Why growth and profitability increasingly diverge Many supply chains appear successful on the surface. Volumes grow, revenue increases, service levels remain acceptable, and operations teams stay busy. Yet margins stagnate, working capital rises, and every planning cycle feels harder than the last. This contradiction is not accidental. It is structural. Across industries, companies have learned Continue reading
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From Firefighting to Decision Ownership: How AI Helps Supply Chains Escape Permanent Crisis Mode
Why most supply chains are stuck reacting instead of deciding Ask almost any supply chain team how their week went, and you will hear the same answer: firefighting. Expediting late orders, resolving shortages, managing escalations, responding to disruptions, and explaining misses. Firefighting has become normalized. It is often even rewarded. The best firefighters are seen Continue reading
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Why Most AI Supply Chain Projects Fail — And How to Get Them Right
Why technology is rarely the real problem AI is now firmly on the agenda of most supply chain organizations. Forecasting, inventory optimization, transport planning, risk sensing, and control towers are all marketed as AI-powered solutions. Yet despite the investment and attention, a large share of AI initiatives fail to deliver sustainable impact. The reason is Continue reading
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Efficiency Is No Longer Enough: Why Resilience Now Defines Supply Chain Performance
Why the old efficiency-first mindset is breaking under permanent volatility For decades, supply chain excellence was defined by efficiency. Lower unit costs, lean inventories, optimized utilization, and global scale were the gold standard. The most efficient supply chains won. That model no longer holds. Today’s operating environment is shaped by permanent volatility. Climate disruptions, geopolitical Continue reading
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China’s Trade Surplus Is Not the Real Risk — Static Supply Chains Are
What AI-driven network rebalancing teaches us about the next phase of global trade China’s record-breaking trade surplus has reignited familiar debates about global imbalances, tariffs, and decoupling. Headlines focus on geopolitics, industrial policy, and trade retaliation. But for supply chain leaders, the real signal lies elsewhere. The problem is not that China exports too much. Continue reading
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Why Predictive Analytics Is the Backbone of Future Supply‑Chains
Context: A Volatile Supply‑Chain Landscape Over the past few years the global supply‑chain has moved from a relatively predictable environment to one characterised by volatile demand, geopolitical tensions and rapid technological change. Port closures during the pandemic, shifting consumer preferences and trade policy shocks have revealed how fragile traditional planning practices are. In response, businesses Continue reading
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Graph Intelligence: Using Federated GNNs to Rebuild Supply Chain Visibility
Introduction Supply chain leaders have long battled the challenge of visibility. From hidden tier-2 suppliers to fragmented logistics networks, companies often fly blind when disruptions strike. Traditional dashboards can’t capture the complexity of global networks, and centralized data sharing raises red flags around privacy, trust, and competitive risk.Enter Federated Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) — a Continue reading
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10 AI Tools That Will Replace 1,000 Hours in Supply Chain Operations
AI in supply chains is no longer about theoretical efficiency gains or experimental pilots. It’s about something tangible: reclaiming thousands of hours from repetitive, low-value work and redeploying that time toward higher-impact decisions. Lora Cecere’s research consistently emphasizes that the most successful AI projects are grounded in narrow AI applications—targeted tools that directly improve sensing, Continue reading
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This Is What an AI-Native Supply Chain Looks Like: A Day
At 6:00 AM, the AI-native supply chain is already awake. In fact, it never slept. While planners were off duty, the system monitored supplier feeds, geopolitical alerts, weather disruptions, and demand anomalies. It reprioritized shipments, rerouted containers, and recalculated capacity constraints in real time. By the time human teams log in, the day’s supply chain Continue reading
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The Silent AI Crisis in Supply Chains: Are You Already Falling Behind?
AI is infiltrating every layer of the supply chain. From predictive forecasting and risk detection to intelligent inventory planning and supplier insights, it’s hard to find a process untouched by the promise of artificial intelligence. But beneath the surface of this technological momentum lies a quiet and dangerous truth: most supply chain organizations are not Continue reading
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