How AI Agents Might Bolster NZ's Supply Chains
· Source: miragenews.com
In short
Analysis by Professor Ilan Oshri of the University of Auckland Business School argues that New Zealand's trade-dependent economy remains highly exposed to supply chain shocks, yet procurement — the function managing that exposure — is still largely manual and under-resourced. Drawing on the Boston Consulting Group's 2026 Tech Procurement Study of over 200 procurement professionals, he shows most enterprises are already piloting or deploying agentic AI that can discover and vet suppliers, analyse contracts and spend, track performance and monitor risk. For distant, small economies, such agents could compress risk detection from weeks to hours and speed up supplier re-sourcing.
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Tags: supply chain, procurement, agentic AI, resilience, sourcing, risk monitoring