A plant manager I spoke with last year had the same story I've heard a dozen times. Inventory accuracy sitting around 74%. Excess stock piling up in rack locations nobody was reviewing. Production line stoppages because the system said a component was on hand and it wasn't. His IT team was pushing for a new ERP. His CFO was pushing back. Meanwhile, the warehouse kept running the same broken cycle count process it had been running for three years. The problem wasn't the softwa

AI makes warehouse work faster—not hands-free Most of the AI conversation in supply chain sounds like it was written by someone who has never waited on a cycle count to close before a shipment goes out. The reality on the floor is less dramatic than the press releases, but it's real, and if you're running a DC or a manufacturing line, you're probably already touching it whether you called it AI or not. The clearest change I've seen is in exception handling. Traditionally, a w