Push is on for more artificial intelligence in supply chains

The word on the street is that artificial intelligence efforts have not been delivering the impressive results everyone has been hoping for. The payoff, however, is likely to be found in well-targeted placements in which AI is handling, in real-time, complicated tasks that would take humans days or weeks to unravel. Managing the flow of telecom traffic is one example, or keeping IT networks up and running is another. Still another, with enormous tangible business value, is the ability to keep supply chains flowing. To that end, for example, Scale AI-- a Canadian consortium of companies, universities, and research centers -- announced $29 million in new investments in AI projects, much of which is aimed at building more intelligence into supply chains.