AI capability will move from niche expertise to baseline literacy, on par with digital and data fluency. 

How can the planning organization become the "decision shaper" of the end-to-end supply chain? Noha Samara, senior director of Gartner, explains.

Integrated into SaaS platforms, AI classification becomes global, consistent and collaborative.

While IBP is not new, many organizations have not made it an ongoing part of their strategic processes.

Stijn-Pieter van Houten, chief product officer for supply chain management planning with SAP, details the state of the art in supply chain planning.

Supply chains need to integrate and collaborate with end-to-end partners and vendors in a more efficient, orchestrated, always-on model.  

Instead of just analyzing data or suggesting next steps, agentic AI systems are now actually running parts of the sourcing process.

While generative AI recognizes patterns and creates content, agentic AI uses these outputs to reason, plan, and take autonomous actions.

The very notion of a big selling period that’s treated as a once-a-year phenomenon is out of date, says Greg Dyer, chief commercial officer of Randstad USA.

Nicholas Wegman, senior director and AI scientist with Zebra Technologies, describes the company’s new Workcloud Forecasting and Analysis solution.