EVENT: Supply Chain Village Roundtable Questions Whether APS Remain Best Placed to Reduce Inventory Without Hurting Service Levels
Supply Chain Village is hosting a live roundtable on June 10, 2026 at 11:00 on whether Advanced Planning Systems remain the best tools to reduce inventory without degrading service levels. The session is part of “Les Mercredis de la Supply Chain” and will examine how AI, deep learning, generative AI and agentic approaches are changing forecasting, planning and operational decision-making.
The event brings together Zahir Bouchaala, CEO of Bevolta; Fabrice Chausserais, CEO of Elisa Industriq France; Jérôme Pacaud, Director at Findle; and Amine Benmesbah, President and Co-founder of My Exobrain. The discussion was also amplified on LinkedIn by Arnaud Morvan, who framed the key question as whether inventory optimization should remain primarily inside APS tools or increasingly rely on continuous arbitration in response to operational disruptions.
The operational stakes are significant for Inventory Optimization: APS platforms have long structured forecasting, constraints and planning logic, but AI-enabled systems are now being positioned around real-time simulation, exception handling and adaptive planning. The relevant issue is not whether APS disappear, but how planning systems, execution signals and AI agents should coexist without creating fragmented decision logic.
More details are available on the event page.
This event is a useful signal for Supply Chain AI leaders because it shifts the debate from software categories to decision architecture. Reducing inventory while protecting service levels is not only a planning calculation; it is an operational arbitration problem involving demand variability, supply constraints, lead times, exceptions and accountability.
Before replacing or complementing an APS with AI agents or dynamic planning layers, companies should clarify which decisions are being automated, what data feeds the recommendation, who owns the logic, and how planners can override or validate outputs. The practical governance question is whether these capabilities belong inside the APS, inside the ERP, in BI, or in a governed middle layer that connects planning and execution.