The New Operational Baseline: How Supply Chains Are Adapting to Constant Shock
· Source: inboundlogistics.com
In short
At the ASCM CHAINge 2026 conference in Long Beach, supply chain leaders agreed that geopolitical friction, trade policy shifts and hyper-volatile demand are now a permanent operational baseline. Speakers detailed how Suez diversions, tariff spikes above 100% and social-media-driven demand spikes are pushing companies to multi-modal routing, six-to-nine-month facility builds and AI embedded directly in core ERP systems. The consensus was that automation and AI should remove administrative work rather than headcount, and that technology cannot fix a flawed business setup.
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Tags: supply chain, disruption, logistics, demand forecasting, ERP, automation