Forbes May 30, 2025
Nothing is more vulnerable than supply chains – everything and anything can rock them without notice. Tariffs, weather events, political disruptions, economic issues, worker shortages, and epidemics will always disrupt even the smoothest-flowing chains. Let’s not even get started on the 2020 Covid toilet-paper crisis. And we’re seeing the potential pain Apple is facing with tariffs on its manufacturing operations in China.
Could self-managing, autonomous supply chains help companies rapidly adjust to such disruptions? Should they? A new survey of 1,000 C-suite executives out of Accenture says supply chains are the new untamed frontier for artificial intelligence.
“Today, companies operate their supply chains mostly manually,” the Accenture report’s co-authors, Max Blanchet, Chris McDivitt, and Stephen Meyer, stated. “Such supply chains...
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