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Supply Chain Planning & Optimization

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Watch: How Supply Chain Leaders Invest in Automation — and How That Will Change

April 15, 2026
Russell W. Goodman, SupplyChainBrain

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.


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From Insight to Action: The Agentic Supply Chain

April 15, 2026
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Supply chain execution is undergoing a fundamental shift. As complexity accelerates and disruptions become the norm, reactive, rule-based systems can no longer keep pace. In this SupplyChainBrain webinar, leaders from EPG and NVIDIA explore how agentic AI is transforming logistics from insight-driven visibility into autonomous, intelligent execution.


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Mastering Returnable Transport Items (RTIs) in Peak Seasons

April 15, 2026
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Returnable Transport Items (RTI) losses of 10–15% and lack of real-time visibility are critical bottlenecks in peak-season supply chains. RFID and BLE tracking enable end-to-end asset visibility, reducing costs, improving throughput, and strengthening operational resilience.


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Report: AI Moves Into Core Supply Chain Decisions

April 14, 2026
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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.


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Watch: Why Are Supply Chain Costs Trending Higher Than the Rate of Inflation?

April 14, 2026
Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Suketu Gandhi, global co-lead of the Strategic Operations and Performance practice of Kearney, covers the various factors that are causing global supply chain costs to soar.


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Watch: Agentic AI: Moving From Experimentation to Operational Use

April 7, 2026
Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

As agentic AI moves out of its experimentation phase, how should supply chain leaders be rethinking the way decisions are made? Insights from Fab Brasca, senior VP with Kinaxis.


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AI Doesn’t Know What Your Planners Know

April 6, 2026
Mike Romeri, SCB Contributor

The 95% failure rate of AI pilots that MIT's NANDA research documented in 2025 is a contextual knowledge problem.


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The Ultimate Buying Guide: AI-Powered Source-to-Pay Procurement Software

April 1, 2026
GEP

Procurement teams know what they have to do: move faster, reduce risk and deliver measurable value. The pressure is on.


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Three Scenarios for the Middle East Crisis, and How to Prepare for Them

March 30, 2026
Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

In the end, it’s less about identifying and planning for the most likely disruption scenario than it is possessing the agility to respond to whatever occurs.


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Watch: Elida Beauty: The Modular Supply Chain as a 'Value Accelerator'

March 23, 2026
Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Elida Beauty realized that its many heritage brands could not be subjected to one way of doing things. Each had “its own journey."



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