ISG Software Research Analyst Perspectives

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The State of AI and Agents in Supply Chain Planning

Posted by Robert Kugel on 24 September 2026

We stand at a watershed in enterprise planning activities as a result of the availability of artificial intelligence (AI) and agentic systems. In particular, AI and agents will facilitate the process of continuous supply chain planning through better cross-functional coordination, significantly shortening the time it takes to iteratively juggle and resolve supply and demand chain objectives and... Read More

Topics: Governance, Supply Chain Planning, Business Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, supply chain management, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Energy, Automotive, CPG & Retail, Supply Chain and Operations, AI & Machine Learning

Minimize Costs with Supply Chain Agility and AI

Posted by Robert Kugel on 26 August 2025

The era of ever-liberalizing trade that began in earnest in the 1950s (albeit with periodic ups and downs) came to an epochal end in the 2010s. Over the past decade, the ever-more demanding environment for supply chain planning and execution has forced enterprises to take a more strategic approach to managing these processes. The need for resiliency and adaptability in a rapidly changing world... Read More

Topics: Supply Chain Planning, Business Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, supply chain management, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Generative AI, AI and Machine Learning, Automotive, Business & Technologies, CPG & Retail, Supply Chain and Operations

AI Agents in the Supply Chain offer a Competitive Edge

Posted by Robert Kugel on 21 August 2025

Agents offer almost effortless automation, so repetitive and boring tasks get done with the least amount of work and, perhaps, more consistently. Agents are an important evolutionary step in the design of business software, similar to the transition from procedural programming to event-driven programming that accelerated in the late 1980s. That paradigm shift created the business software... Read More

Topics: Supply Chain Planning, Business Planning, Operations & Supply Chain, Enterprise Resource Planning, supply chain management, Manufacturing, Automotive, Business & Technologies, CPG & Retail, Vertical Industry