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RELEX expands AI-powered manufacturing planning from IBP to execution

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

SWARM Engineering raises $10 million for agrifood and manufacturing decision intelligence

Infor and Kinaxis launch an advanced planning solution for discrete manufacturers

Pelico brings AI-powered manufacturing orchestration to Farnborough

HashMicro expands its manufacturing platform with AI-native operational capabilities

Vertiv opens Malaysian manufacturing facility for AI and high-density infrastructure

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

Komugi Brings Workload-Capacity Planning to Global Industrie 2025

South Korean groups commit $195 billion to AI, robotics and advanced manufacturing

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

IFS.ai expands industrial AI relevance for scheduling, service and operational planning

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

Schneider Electric advances software-defined automation at Automate 2026

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

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

Bluecrux Recognized as a Gartner Leader for Specialist Supply Chain Strategy, Planning and Operations

Wipak selects RELEX for connected demand, inventory and production planning

Ansaldo Energia selects Kinaxis Maestro to connect global planning

Gala Supply Chain 2025 Signals AI’s Growing Role in Operations and Planning

Radius Aerospace and LeanDNA provide evidence of factory-first supply execution

BoCloud raises new funding to expand AI deployment in manufacturing

CISCE showcases industrial AI across advanced-manufacturing value chains

SAP Positions Joule Agents and Assistants as a New AI Layer for Supply Chain Management

Lisa Anderson is named among the Top 50 Manufacturing Thought Leaders for 2026

FICG links Johor manufacturing with Singapore sourcing and innovation through a JS-SEZ strategy

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

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

SAP embeds agents into manufacturing and supply-chain workflows at Hannover Messe

NVIDIA-backed factory upgrade expands AI-component manufacturing in Texas

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Category Manager — Manufacturing

Interim Supply Chain Manager — Food Manufacturing

Supply Chain & Manufacturing AI Specialist

Manufacturing Master Scheduler

Presales Solutions Consultant — Manufacturing and Supply Chain

Supply Chain Strategy & Planning Manager

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Materials Requirement Senior Supervisor

Digital Product Owner — M&S Accelerator

Account Executive, SAP Academy for Customer Success

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

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

EVENT: ASU explores multimodal AI from engineering design through manufacturing process planning

EVENT: SAP demonstrates business AI across supply-chain planning and execution

EVENT: AI-based demand forecasting in manufacturing course starts

WARNING: Canadian factories stockpile as delivery times deteriorate

EVENT: Automate 2026 opens in Chicago

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

EVENT: RoboCup 2026 closes in Incheon as South Korea links robotics talent to manufacturing AI

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

RISK: Manufacturing Remains the Leading Ransomware Target

EVENT: Manufacturers review supply-chain resilience strategies

RISK: AI agents should not run supply chains without physical context and human oversight

NOMINATION: Mitchell Arends begins as Hershey Chief Supply Chain Officer

NOMINATION: Suntory Global Spirits names Manuel Cabañas Chief Supply Chain Officer

NOMINATION: Crompton Greaves appoints Anuj Lall as Head of Integrated Supply Chain

EVENT: ARC Industry Leadership Forum India concludes in Bangalore

NOMINATION: Vineet Khanna Joins Kearney PERLab as Advisor

SECURITY: AI-Accelerated Attacks Exploit Basic Enterprise Security Gaps

NOMINATION: J.M. Smucker appoints Douglas Guilherme SVP, Operations and Supply Chain

DISRUPTION: Jaguar Land Rover Cyber Incident Severely Interrupts Global Production

Always-on demand forecasting changes the infrastructure assumptions behind planning AI

Canada’s manufacturing expansion is partly inventory-driven

US Manufacturers Front-Load Orders While Factory Employment Falls

Aerospace manufacturing orchestration must connect blockers to recovery decisions

APS and manufacturing execution are converging around the same constraint model

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

Manufacturing Forecasting Needs More Than a Better Algorithm

Seven ways AI planning software addresses meat manufacturing constraints

Component resilience decisions belong before production release

Supply-chain AI depends on governed data foundations

Jon Nichols shows what continuous planning looks like in a next-gen planner’s week

AI priorities in manufacturing: talent, operating model and data foundation come before agentic AI

Manufacturing localisation is a network redesign, not a plant announcement

Chipflation is becoming a cross-industry planning constraint

AI is pushing Chinese factory robotics beyond highly standardized production

Mapping the First Wave of Vibe-Coded Supply Chain Applications

Lisa Anderson examines how tariffs, AI and reshoring are reshaping US industrial manufacturing

From what-if to what's next: digital twins for manufacturing volatility

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

South Korea’s AI investment wave will expose shared physical bottlenecks

How OEE Optimization Can Damage Lead Time and Flow

Reacting Before the Ripple Becomes a Wave with SAP Autonomous Supply Chain

Industrial AI programmes should count changed decisions, not participating companies

How Levelled Pull Flow Can Stabilize Production

From Bots to Agentic Supply Chains: Why the Next Competitive Advantage Will Be Decision Augmentation, Not Full Automation

Lisa Anderson identifies three Supply Chain priorities for manufacturers in 2026

Human–AI teams need operating rules across planning and execution

Hybrid AI agents automatically turn factory layouts into simulation models

Why Nominal Capacity Produces Unrealistic Production Plans

Sourcing agents are becoming supplier-risk intelligence layers

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