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RethinkStack Magazine · Insights · AUGUST 25, 2026

AI in the Supply Chain: What Actually Runs, and What Is Only for Show

Demand forecasting, stock alerts, automatic document reading — applications running today in small and mid-sized businesses, and the ones that still only look good on a slide.

AI in the Supply Chain: What Actually Runs, and What Is Only for Show

This article is being completed by a member. The outline is below.

Applications running today

  • Demand forecasting per SKU
  • Bottleneck alerts by supplier lead time
  • Reading and classifying documents

Things that are only for show

  • A chatbot that answers everything
  • Whole-chain optimisation on dirty data

Conditions for AI to work

  • Minimum historical data
  • One person accountable for reading the output

Where to start

  • Pick one measurable process
  • Estimate the monthly model cost
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