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From Prompting to Persistent Decision Workflows in Supply Chain Operations

13-10-2026 19:30 via logisticsviewpoints.com

Supply-chain AI is moving from episodic prompting toward persistent decision workflows. Repeated prompting can help an analyst solve a problem, but an operating capability must maintain context, monitor changing state, preserve decision logic, and connect recommendations to the work that follows.
A persistent decision workflow needs memory of the business object, the current plan, previous recommendations, overrides, policies, and outcomes. Without that continuity, users repeatedly reconstruct c

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Why SKU Selection Can Make or Break an AS/RS Business Case

13-10-2026 17:46 via logisticsviewpoints.com

Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (AS/RS) have become a cornerstone of modern warehouse automation strategies. Whether the technology involves shuttles, cube-based systems, cranes, or goods-to-person solutions, the business case is typically built around a common set of objectives: increasing throughput, reducing labor requirements, improving accuracy, and maximizing storage utilization. Yet one of the most important decisions in any AS/RS implementation often receives far less attention t

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What the Descartes Innovation Forum Said About the Next Phase of Logistics Execution

13-10-2026 17:22 via logisticsviewpoints.com

After several days at the 2026 Descartes Innovation Forum, the clearest takeaway was not simply that artificial intelligence is coming to logistics. That part is already obvious. What stood out more was where the technology is moving and why it matters now.Across the keynote, a transportation leadership panel, a Walmart Marketplace session, and a detailed discussion of carrier fraud, the same operating problem kept surfacing in different forms. Logistics organizations have more data, more applic

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Everyone Claims to Have a Supply Chain Platform. Very Few Can Prove It

13-10-2026 16:00 via logisticsviewpoints.com

Executive thesis. “Platform” has become one of the least discriminating words in supply-chain technology. A common user interface or product bundle does not prove a common operating architecture.
Platform has become an overloaded term
Supply chain vendors describe their portfolios as platforms. Sometimes the label reflects a meaningful shared architecture. Sometimes it describes a collection of products under one commercial umbrella. Buyers should treat the word platform as a claim t

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Not Every Alert Is an Exception: Why Context and Consequence Matter

13-10-2026 13:00 via logisticsviewpoints.com

Visibility programs begin to fail when every deviation is treated as work. An alert becomes an exception only when context and consequence make the change operationally meaningful, and that distinction becomes more important as event volumes rise.
An event says that something changed. An exception says that the change threatens an objective, constraint, commitment, or policy. A shipment that is twenty minutes late may be irrelevant if inventory is abundant and the dock is flexible; a ten-minute

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