SAP Expands Joule Assistants and Agents to Advance Autonomous Supply Chain Management
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In short
SAP is expanding six Joule Assistants and adding specialized Joule Agents to bring autonomous decision-making across planning, manufacturing, logistics, asset operations, product design, and supplier collaboration, with general availability planned for Q4 2026. The company argues that decision velocity — how quickly organizations recognize change and coordinate a governed response — is where supply chain performance is won or lost, and that agents must operate within connected business context and processes. Early customers Takeda Pharmaceuticals and Doehler report concrete gains, including AI-detected root causes, self-healing planning, and recovering roughly a third of the time once lost to logistics troubleshooting.
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Tags: supply chain, agents, automation, logistics, planning, autonomous