AI is delivering real, measurable value in fleet and last-mile operations, says James Wee, senior vice president and general manager of fleet at Descartes.

The 115-year-old American Chain of Warehouses helps mid-tier companies, says Chris Kane, president of ACW.

Unification of planning and execution systems tears down information silos, says Allan Dow, executive vice president and general manager of supply chain at Aptean.

If nearshoring and regional strategies are to work properly, companies need to have resilient and flexible supply chains, says Matt Schroeder, president of WSI/Kase.

Making sense of unstructured data is the greatest need supply chain managers have when it comes to AI, says Chris Cutshaw, VP of market solutions at C.H. Robinson.

As supply chain companies become more integral to the economy, private equity is putting more funding into them, says Jay Koh, managing director and co-founder of The Lightsmith Group.

Such networks can move parcels by air quickly and at more moderate prices, says Jeffrey Elder, head of product for Deliver Direct, a Delta Airlines service.

As supply chains continue to grow ever more complex, advanced planning and scheduling systems have evolved to enable their optimization, says Ashok Erramilli, general manager of Eyelit Technologies.

Supply chain professionals must consider the customer experience, not just cost reduction and operational efficiency, says Mike Dominy, vice president of supply chain research at Gartner.

Volatility, latency and inefficiency are the same problems bedeviling supply chains that they always have been, but they are exacerbated today, says Puneet Saxena, corporate vice president, industry strategies, at Blue Yonder.