Could AI make New Zealand's supply chains more resilient?
· Source: insideretail.co.nz
In short
With 87 per cent of New Zealand exporters facing higher shipping costs and only 7 per cent escaping disruption, the article argues that procurement — the corporate immune system of a small, trade-dependent economy — remains under-resourced and largely untouched by AI. Drawing on Boston Consulting Group's 2026 Tech Procurement Study, it shows that agentic AI can compress supplier discovery and risk detection from weeks to hours, and that buying the capability works as well as building it, provided firms develop their own AI expertise.
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Tags: procurement, supply chain, agentic AI, resilience, sourcing, risk management