Artificial Intelligence Making Its Way into Today's Warehouse Technologies

Artificial intelligence (AI) is hot. Billions of dollars in venture capital have been invested in AI firms, including firms that focus on solving supply chain problems. Machine learning (ML), a subset of AI, is particularly hot. Interestingly, while AI is not a new technology in supply chain management, so much more data is becoming available for analysis, that we're seeing a new focus on using these techniques to improve supply chain applications, including warehouse technologies. Any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of success toward some goal is using artificial intelligence in some manner.