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AGR compares the 2026 inventory-planning market as companies move beyond spreadsheets and basic ERP

Oracle adds agentic applications for inventory, supplier and production decisions

REMIRA positions AI-powered inventory and supply chain software for European planning teams

FourKites enhances Inventory Twin to connect S&OP planning with execution

Netstock launches AI Pack for SMB supply chain visibility and inventory decisions

Autone raises $17 million to scale AI-powered retail inventory planning

Claire’s opens Illinois distribution centre to improve inventory flow and planning

2026 Inventory-Planning Review Shows Automation Shifting From Forecasting to Replenishment Decisions

Slimstock expands inventory optimization with Mees van den Brink

Wipak selects RELEX for connected demand, inventory and production planning

ToolsGroup combines demand planning and pricing for inventory-aware demand shaping

Explainable AI Moves Up the Agenda for Forecasting and Inventory Decisions

RELEX expands investment in diagnostics, True Inventory and agentic AI

SKU Science Showcases Forecasting and Inventory Features at Global Industrie 2025

Stord opens live fulfillment data to AI workflows through MCP

US Defense Logistics Agency applies Nicolas Vandeput’s demand-forecasting framework

Slimstock brings next-generation AI planning focus to SAPICS 2026

World Economic Forum adds 16 Lighthouse awards as AI scales across manufacturing and supply chains

Flowlity positions probabilistic planning as an alternative to Excel-based workflows

DriveNets raises $410 million to scale networking infrastructure for large AI deployments

Atlas Copco moves to probability-based supply-chain planning with ToolsGroup

Slimstock customer Freedom of Movement uses AI-powered planning for retail growth

RELEX report: AI moves into core supply chain decisions as volatility persists

Algo Acquires Demand Driven Technologies (Intuiflow) to Expand Demand-Driven Planning Capabilities

Lokad continues to challenge forecast-centric planning with probabilistic and financially prioritized decisions

Fabletics deploys GreyOrange gStore for real-time inventory management

C3 AI frames tariff resilience as an enterprise AI supply chain use case

GreyOrange deploys gStore across PetSmart’s U.S. store network

Sunstice and Kbrw connect planning and execution through an agentic decision loop

Sourceability warns of longer semiconductor lead times and price pressure

ICQA Area Manager, Inventory Control and Quality Assurance

Business Intelligence Engineer II, Automated Inventory Management

Business Intelligence Engineer, Automated Inventory Management

Inventory Planning Assistant Manager / Staff

Director, Inventory Optimization and Operations Planning

Supply Chain Strategist and Inventory Champion

Clinical Supply Chain Coordinator — Inventory Management

Data Scientist — inventory optimisation and agentic AI

Parts Inventory Collaboration Analyst

Network Deployment Refresh Planner I

Demand & Inventory Planner – Food Import & Trading

Supply Chain Planning Engineer

Category Planner — Central Hub

Responsable Supply Chain H/F — Transition Mission

Interim Supply Chain Manager — Food Manufacturing

Therapy Supply Chain Manager

Director of Deliver Operations Planning

Global ISC Continuous Improvement Manager, Supply Chain

Supply Chain Planning Analyst (Early Talent) — 2 openings

Supply Chain Planning Manager

Senior Consultant, Supply Chain AI-Driven Planning Advisory

Global Process Owner — Sales and Operations Planning

Finance Business Manager — Supply Chain

Senior Service Parts Forecasting Manager

Manager, Supply Planning

Supply Chain Consultant

Associate Customer Supply Chain Strategy Manager

Demand Planner

Supply Chain Planning Engineer

Applied Scientist, Worldwide Grocery Stores Data and Science

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

EVENT: Inventory and Warehousing Summit takes place in Delhi

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

EVENT: Supply Chain Village Roundtable Questions Whether APS Remain Best Placed to Reduce Inventory Without Hurting Service Levels

WARNING: AI alone cannot run inventory planning without human decision controls

WARNING: Inventory-platform replacement can recreate shadow planning if parameters remain unowned

WARNING: Unexplained AI Forecasts Can Create Inventory and Capacity Decision Risk

EVENT: AI-based demand forecasting in manufacturing course starts

EVENT: Chain Reaction 2026 examines AI decision-making in Supply Chains

WARNING: Frontloaded ocean shipping makes late-summer demand signals harder to read

EVENT: Smart Warehousing and Logistics Automation conference takes place in Melbourne

EVENT: Alteryx examines the data foundation for AI supply-chain planning

EVENT: Algo Hosts “The Trillion-Dollar Forecast” Webinar on Forecasting as a Scenario Tool

EVENT: Manufacturers review supply-chain resilience strategies

EVENT: SAP IBP Business Forum Brings Integrated Planning to Oman

EVENT: Sourceability reviews semiconductor lead-time and pricing risks

EVENT: CII programme covers AI-driven intelligent supply-chain management

EVENT: Konekti wins the 2026 European Supply Chain Start-up Contest

EVENT: DFYA introduces MyExobrain at Supply Chain Event 2024

NOMINATION: Starbucks appoints Andrew Corner SVP Supply Chain Operations

EVENT: Fresh Forward puts practical technology into perishables Supply Chain decisions

EVENT: Georgia Tech teaches engineering-led warehouse decision design

WARNING: Canadian factories stockpile as delivery times deteriorate

EVENT: IBF Examines AI Proof of Value in Forecasting and Demand Planning

WARNING: Specialized planning agents can multiply faster than their governance model

EVENT: Supply Chain & AI Event highlights practical forecasting, automation and agent use cases

EVENT: Intuiflow showcases Demand Driven planning at Procurement Summit Hamburg

RISK: Middle East disruption drives port congestion and container shortages in India

NOMINATION: Ciena appoints Grant Hoffman as Chief Supply Chain Officer

NOMINATION: Mitchell Arends begins as Hershey Chief Supply Chain Officer

Ganacos Frames Inventory Optimization as a Continuous Decision Process Across ERP, WMS and Planning

Lessons from VN2, the first global inventory-planning competition

DTC inventory planning is becoming cash-flow governance by SKU class

Why cumulative and lag-one forecasts matter for inventory decisions

Nicolas Vandeput on machine learning, inventory simulation and planner roles

How to optimize inventory without sacrificing service levels

Category planning is policy governance—not spreadsheet maintenance

Inventory Optimization Without Flow Management Is Incomplete

Orchestra’s Recovery Shows Why Inventory Reduction Is a Governance Problem

AI agents for inventory control: human, LLM and operations-research complementarity

The inventory-planning platform is not the operating model

Buffers Are Not Forecasts: Understanding Their Role in Inventory Decisions

Inventory Reduction Is a Consequence, Not a Transformation Objective

Erik Bush reframes the trillion-dollar inventory problem as an operating-model failure

David Simchi-Levi’s 2026 research shows how information delays shape forecastability and inventory cost

Forecast vs. actual: why protocol design breaks clinical supply plans

Why Inventory Targets Should Reflect Variability, Lead Time and Capacity

Not All Inventory Is Equal: Distinguishing Protective Stock From Excess

Why Inventory Reduction Is Often the Wrong Transformation Objective

Outgrowing the classical safety-stock formula

Vendor “agentic AI” claims now need an agent inventory, not another capability map

Single-View Visibility as a Supply Chain Decision Enabler

Lead-time forecasting should produce a probability distribution—not a single ERP parameter

Stress-testing an AI-built IBP engine across 2,736 SKUs and 10 plants

IBP is a management discipline before it is a technology project

Future-proofing retail requires an intelligence foundation

AI begins taking on merchandising, assortment and vendor decisions

LeanDNA argues that the next frontier of Supply Chain AI is smarter action, not better prediction

Mapping the First Wave of Vibe-Coded Supply Chain Applications

The AI-First Supply Chain: Agents Will Not Create Value Without Decision Redesign

How to validate an AI inventory use case before buying software

Experiment: Build a Supply Chain as a Service company with OpenOPC

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

22 practical Data Science projects for Supply Chain teams

How to choose supply chain software when every vendor has an AI story

Map the supply chain IT portfolio before adding another AI application

How to Validate an AI Demand Forecast Before Planners Use It

Turn Distribution Planning into an Optimization Model — and Know When Not to Trust It

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

Build a Governed S&OP Scenario Register Instead of Managing Scenarios in Email

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

Build a governed Claude Managed Agent for Supply Chain workflows

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

Build a Governed AI Control Tower for Logistics Questions

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