AI will transform supply chains

Significance Rapid AI adoption in industrial and commercial supply chains is enabling companies in industries as diverse as retailing, auto manufacturing and food and beverage production to be more agile in their decision-making, swifter in their response to market changes and more resilient to production disruptions and defects. Impacts The US tech giants' supply chain AI dominance will face emerging Asian challenges as China and India's digital transformations advance. Using AI to integrate supply chains' supplier and customer-facing ends will be key to creating customer satisfaction. Self-collaborating AI-powered supply chain networks are a plausible development that could be more salient in a less globalised world.