What logistics and supply chain solutions do you oer? SOLUTIONS
37%
77%
Supply chain control tower
Artificial intelligence (AI)
77%
37%
Optimization
Rate and bid solutions
72%
35%
Data management and analytics
Security (risk management, compliance)
62%
34%
Process improvement
Load planning and palletization
33%
54%
Warehouse execution and management solutions (WES/WMS)
Modeling, forecasting, predictive analytics
31%
48%
Capacity management
Machine learning
31%
48%
Freight bill audit and payment
Routing & scheduling
Demand management 28% Reverse logistics 28% Fleet management 27% Procurement 27% Labor management, training 25% Robotics/automation 25% Supplier/vendor management (SRM) 25% Digital twins 24% Yard management systems (YMS) 23% Asset management 16% Enterprise resource management (ERP) 16% Global trade management 16%
44%
Transportation management system (TMS)
44%
Visibility (RFID, IoT)
40%
Electronic data interchange (EDI)
40%
Inventory management
38%
Order management
Artificial intelligence solidified its hold on the industry in the past year, and 77% of respondents now say they oer AI solutions—up 6 points from last year and 27 points from just two years ago. Optimization also gained 6 points, keeping it in a tie at the top with AI among solutions for another year. Data management and analytics, which gained one point to 72%, fell from that three-way tie in first into a solitary third place, but still is up 9 points in two years. That growth over the past two years is in alignment with AI’s growth, too. “Data management and cybersecurity is increasingly important, especially as companies navigate the evolving role of AI,” says Trevor Read, president of Agistix, a supply chain
technology provider based in San Mateo, California. “Whether building custom AI tools or integrating existing tools into supply chain workflows, managing data security protocols is essential.” Some of the other most prominent solutions also gained a growing foothold in the field in the past year. For instance, process improvement gained 5 points to 62% to remain in fourth place; modeling, forecasting, and predictive analytics gained 7 points to 54% and fifth place; and machine learning (a subset of artificial intelligence) jumped 7 points to 48% and a tie for sixth place with routing and scheduling (up 2 points). Still lower down the list, security (risk management, compliance, etc.) jumped 15 percentage points to 35% over the
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