The Multi-Million Dollar Robotics Paradox: Why Your Supply Chain AI Is Stuck in Pilot Purgatory
· Source: techbullion.com
In short
A paper by supply chain strategy leader Dawud Yakubu, published in Advances in IT and Digital Security, examines why hundreds of millions of dollars in supply chain automation investment stall after successful pilot projects. Yakubu argues that failures stem from evaluating technology in isolation, ignoring legacy data systems, workforce friction and governance gaps, and that scaling requires data standardization, absorptive capacity and hybrid governance rather than more computing power.
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Tags: supplychain, automation, robotics, scaling, warehouse, governance