The AI-empowered supply-chain leader still owns the decision

Supply Chain Management Review challenges the assumption that AI will place supply chains on autopilot and instead focuses on how leadership roles change as planning and execution systems become more automated.

The planner’s work moves from producing numbers toward validating assumptions, resolving exceptions and coordinating commitments across functions. That shift creates value only when roles, measures and escalation rights are redesigned alongside the technology.

The principal failure mode is keeping the old operating model while adding AI-generated analysis, recommendations and exception queues to the same people.