True resilience demands smarter data, continuous monitoring, empowered partners, and AI-driven insight to build agile, transparent, and accountable supply chains.

AI systems are great tools for repetitive tasks, but eliminating every source of human oversight can have consequences.

Companies that have invested in this kind of granular planning are seeing substantial decreases in spoilage across perishable categories, and the environmental impact is direct.

What may once have looked like temporary volatility in the early phase of the pandemic has instead become a more permanent condition of unpredictability.

In today’s volatile markets, businesses must evolve from reactive planning to structured adaptability. Integrated business planning (IBP) provides the framework to do so — connecting strategy, finance, operations and execution so organizations can act with clarity and alignment. 

Volatility and disruption have become constants in today’s business environment, affecting everything from supply chains and labor availability to customer demand and financial stability. 

Robots-to-goods has the potential to become the future of warehouse automation, as a technology set to define the category.

The two products — Connect Decisions and Connect Talent — had previously been used internally for supply chain forecasting and job interviews.

Colin McAleenan, vice of marketing and business development at HAI Robotics, details the evolution in automation investment and where it's going over the next five years in both resources and leadership.

Retail leaders are increasingly turning to AI-driven forecasting, inventory optimization, and decision-support tools that allow them to respond quickly to changes in consumer behavior.