News / Post-Covid volatility speeds up AI adoption for supply chain planning

As shippers grapple with supply chain planning in the face of volatility and rapid swings in demand, data science and artificial intelligence (AI) are rapidly emerging as vital tools.

Abe Eshekenazi, CEO of the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM), noted that supply chains had been undergoing an enormous amount of disruption, which had increased the pressure on firms to be more precise in their forecasting.

Traditional supply chain planning tools had lost traction in the pace of change, which had shrunk ...