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Boeing activates fourth 737 MAX production line in Everett

Oracle adds agentic applications for inventory, supplier and production decisions

LG adds an 80%-automated glass-powder line and a second production base in Vietnam

HashMicro expands its manufacturing platform with AI-native operational capabilities

Hexagon releases VGSTUDIO MAX 2026.2 for multi-part CT inspection

H-E-B plans a $700 million expansion of refrigerated and bakery supply-chain operations

RELEX expands AI-powered manufacturing planning from IBP to execution

Schneider Electric advances software-defined automation at Automate 2026

Accenture moves to acquire Industries eXcellence Group to deepen Siemens planning and manufacturing capabilities

Logility launches an agentic orchestration layer across planning and execution

Carhartt selects RELEX for unified AI-driven supply-chain planning

LeanDNA launches Demand Scenario Modeling in APEX

Toyota commits $3.6 billion to double its San Antonio manufacturing campus

China’s factory recovery is increasingly concentrated in AI-related exports

Wipak selects RELEX for connected demand, inventory and production planning

Rootstock Summer ’26 puts AI agents into active production pilots

Pelico brings AI-powered manufacturing orchestration to Farnborough

Western Washington University moves JAGGAER procurement and contracts into production

Canadian Solar gains traceability certification for ingot and cell production

NEURA Robotics raises up to $1.4 billion to scale its physical-AI platform

ARC India Forum frames industrial AI as production-grade operations

DELMIA supply chain planning and optimization remains central to Dassault Systèmes’ virtual-twin planning strategy

Google Cloud and Accenture form Gemini Enterprise delivery group for production AI adoption

NEC launches cross-system SCM AI Agent for forecasting, procurement and planning

Unilever scales AI-enabled digital twins across its manufacturing network with Accenture

Microsoft Dynamics 365 shows how agentic AI links supply chain data, decisions and execution

Target turns its inventory network into a digital twin

Nissin Foods moves from spreadsheet forecasting to integrated AI planning

XMPro links agentic AI to bounded autonomy in industrial operations

Oracle adds agentic AI applications for supply chain workflows

Production Planning Analyst

Production Intern

Solution Architect — Production Planning and Scheduling

Materials Requirement Senior Supervisor

New Unit Master Scheduler

Material Planning Analyst

Senior Solution Architect — Demand, Supply, Production and S&OP

Manager of Deliver Operations Planning

Planning and Scheduling Manager

Manufacturing Master Scheduler

Site Materials Manager

Business Processes Senior Consultant — Supply Chain Planning PP/DS

D&T Analyst I — Supply Chain

SAP AI Engineering Architect

Supply Chain Planning Manager

Supply Chain Planning Engineer

Principal Technical Program Manager, AWS Applied AI Solutions Core Services

Connected Planning Model Builder

Applied AI/ML Software Engineer — Supply Chain AI and Decision Intelligence

Supply Chain Senior Business Analyst / Consultant

JJT TPO ERP Master Data Manager

Quality Engineer

Demand & Inventory Planner – Food Import & Trading

Supply Chain & Operations Manager / Senior Manager — Business Consulting

Head of AI & Advanced Apps

Material Planning Analyst

Planning Solution Architect

Supply Chain Network Optimization

Category Manager — Manufacturing

Specialist, Order Management

EVENT: Slimstock User Day covers supply, demand, inventory and production planning

EVENT: Production Scheduling AI — how it works and where it fits

OUTAGE: Nucor Halts Production After Unauthorized Access to IT Systems

DISRUPTION: Jaguar Land Rover Cyber Incident Severely Interrupts Global Production

WARNING: Supply-Chain Cyber Incidents Create Material Production and Service Disruption

EVENT: Farnborough opens with AI defence systems and aerospace capacity constraints in focus

EVENT: Manufacturing NEXT Tokyo closes with planning and AI-agent tools

EVENT: B2Wise runs demand-driven factory planning workshop in Paris

EVENT: EurOMA 2026 examines AI, planning and supply-chain resilience

EVENT: Intuiflow showcases Demand Driven planning at Procurement Summit Hamburg

EVENT: Automated Negotiating Agents Competition includes a supply-chain management league

FAILURE: Capacity plans become mathematically correct and operationally wrong when constraints are stale

EVENT: Bosch demonstrates AI-based inventory intelligence for MRO and production materials

EVENT: Supply Chain session examines AI and BI security as pilots move toward production

EVENT: AMTS 2026 opens in Shanghai

RISK: Manufacturing Remains the Leading Ransomware Target

EVENT: Aluminium China opens with intelligent-manufacturing and restructuring themes

NOMINATION: Ciena appoints Grant Hoffman as Chief Supply Chain Officer

WARNING: Digital twins can create a second version of capacity if planning systems are not synchronized

DISRUPTION: Hormuz reopening remains constrained by mines, permits and marine-fuel shortages

WARNING: Legacy Data Gaps Continue to Limit AI-Based Supply Chain Response

RISK: AI-Generated Electronic Part Data Can Introduce Sourcing and Compliance Errors

EVENT: Alkemys webinar highlights pragmatic AI agents in Supply Chain

FAILURE: Uniform Governance May Cause AI-Agent Deployments to Fail

WARNING: Yossi Sheffi identifies electricity availability as an underestimated Supply Chain risk

WARNING: NIST Identifies Security Risks From AI Tools in Software Development

Kinexions EMEA 2026 to focus on agentic AI and operational orchestration

NOMINATION: Dow names James Swingle supply-chain director for Americas

DISRUPTION: strikes and typhoon effects pressure multiple ports

NOMINATION: Jeff Rowe takes over ADM's newly created Chief Operating Officer role

Ganacos Positions the Master Production Schedule as the Link Between Forecasts, Capacity and Execution

Aerospace AI must be constrained by production-rate reality

Manufacturing copilots need production-state authority, not only ERP access

Industrial AI policy is shifting from model leadership to production-system capacity

AI is pushing Chinese factory robotics beyond highly standardized production

Inverse optimization can reveal what production planners actually optimize

Production planning is becoming a financial decision system—but most companies still govern it as scheduling

How Levelled Pull Flow Can Stabilize Production

Aerospace manufacturing orchestration must connect blockers to recovery decisions

AI is moving supply-chain planning from prediction to automatic replanning

Why Nominal Capacity Produces Unrealistic Production Plans

Metrology is becoming a production-control layer

AI scheduling is the final maturity stage—not the starting point

Komugi Connects PIC, PDP, Workload Planning and Scheduling in a Single Industrial Decision Chain

Seven ways AI planning software addresses meat manufacturing constraints

Order management should expose supply truth, not protect customer promises

Multi-agent supply-chain AI may require satisficing rather than local optimization

Komugi Frames Workload-Capacity Audits as the Foundation of Industrial Planning Transformation

The automated dispatcher versus the empowered planner

Component resilience decisions belong before production release

Schneider Electric’s lighthouse network shifts industrial AI from isolated pilots to operating-system design

AI agents are reaching production faster than organizations are defining accountability

Manufacturing localisation is a network redesign, not a plant announcement

SmartFactory architecture puts agentic AI on top of standardized industrial semantics

Agentic operations must govern actions outside ERP

AI-built planning applications collapse development time, not planning complexity

Canada’s manufacturing expansion is partly inventory-driven

Maintenance optimization belongs inside capacity planning—not beside it

Forecast accuracy is an input, not the Supply Chain decision

AI-infrastructure growth is becoming an industrial-material planning problem

Build and Govern a Production-Ready AI Agent with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Build a governed autonomous replenishment agent for SAP S/4HANA with Claude and MCP

From Open-Source Multi-Agent Control Tower to Governed Supply Chain Decision App

Build an AI-assisted demand forecast in IBM Planning Analytics

Supply Chain Outlier Detection 101: Build a simple demand-sensing review team with AI agents

Connect SAP Digital Manufacturing to Joule through MCP and Joule Studio

Build a Governed AI Forecast Review Workflow Before Connecting AI to Your Planning System

Test Whether a Supply Chain AI Agent Is Real or Agent-Washed

Build a Governed AI Control Tower for Logistics Questions

Build a Simulation-First AI Agent to Monitor Supply Chain Delivery Failures

22 practical Data Science projects for Supply Chain teams

Plex

Imperia

Katana

MRPeasy

CyberPlan

JITbase

Delfoi

Asprova

frePPLe

QAD

The Access Group

Visual Planning

Synchro

ROB-EX Scheduler

User Solutions

SkyPlanner APS

Optessa

sedApta

PlanetTogether

ICRON

Sight Machine

Dassault Systèmes DELMIA

Komugi

Fiddler AI

Arize AI

Afresh

Epicor

Siemens Digital Industries Software

Microsoft Azure AI Foundry

Monte Carlo

Opus Numeris

Thomas Barciet

Xavier Feltin

Wolfgang Lehmacher

Pauline Coquinot

Sandia Ghernati

Louis Collignon

Antoine Guéguen

Ludovic Giraud

Samir Saci

Prashant Gopalan

Gregory Pitstick

Alain Matar

Eugene Demaitre

Emily Rees

Pierre Pélissier

Nicolas Vandeput

Arnaud Morvan

Muddassir Ahmed