AI Agents Take the Controls in Supply Chains
· Source: pymnts.com
In short
Autonomous AI agents are beginning to coordinate supply chain decisions across organizational boundaries, with the World Economic Forum defining agentic supply chains as networks that continuously perceive, reason, negotiate and execute without human approval. A Harvard Business Review analysis argues procurement has the most to gain from agentic AI, though adoption barriers are organizational rather than technological. IDC projects that by 2029, 45% of G2000 companies will adopt agentic AI-driven supply chain orchestration, but warns that clean, governed and interoperable data is the prerequisite.
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Tags: agentic ai, supply chain, procurement, logistics, data governance