Supply Chain Blog
The Starbucks Cautionary Tale Starbucks spent nine months and millions of dollars on an AI powered inventory counting system. Then it pulled the plug. The computer vision system, designed to automatically track stock levels across…
The Bangladesh Warning Bangladesh is learning a hard lesson. Vegetables and seasonal fruit exports from the country have fallen sharply over the past five months as airfreight rates nearly doubled. The cause is no longer…
Sustainability in supply chains is entering a new phase. For a decade, the conversation centered on commitments, roadmaps, and pilot programs. These were necessary, but they also created a convenient gap: between what companies announced…
Shortages rarely arrive one at a time. In supply chains, they cluster. When climate, labor, policy, and infrastructure failures converge in the same quarter, the result is not a series of isolated problems. It is…
Supply chain leaders are quietly confronting a new question: do you need to write code to stay relevant? The answer, increasingly, is yes but not the way you think. Agentic coding is not about becoming…
For decades, the supply chain world operated under a simple rule: cost is king. Companies optimized every link in their networks for the lowest possible price, often at the expense of flexibility and redundancy. Just…
The Agentic Shift: Why Your Supply Chain Now Makes Decisions Without You For years, artificial intelligence in supply chain was a glorified assistant. It flagged anomalies, suggested reroutes, and highlighted demand shifts, but always handed…
The warehouse robotics industry has experienced explosive growth over the past several years. Walk into any modern distribution center and you will see autonomous mobile vehicles gliding across the floor, robotic arms sorting packages at…
Every supply chain professional has faced that moment. You are sitting across the table from a supplier who knows they are your only option. They have the capability, the capacity, or the certification that no…