Could AI make New Zealand’s supply chains more resilient?
· Source: insideretail.co.nz
In short
New Zealand’s export-driven economy remains highly exposed to supply chain shocks, from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz to carrier surcharges and disruption reported by 93 per cent of exporters in DHL’s latest Export Barometer. The article argues that procurement — still largely manual and under-resourced in most NZ organisations — is where agentic AI can compress risk detection and re-sourcing from weeks to days. Drawing on BCG’s 2026 Tech Procurement Study of more than 200 procurement professionals, it finds most enterprises are already piloting or deploying agentic AI, while trust, fragmented data and internal AI expertise remain the key barriers.
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In the issue of week 40, 2026: Supply Chain AI Advances, but Data, Governance and Capacity Set the Pace
Tags: procurement, supply chain, agentic AI, resilience, automation, risk management