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Navigating supply chains in the age of generative AI
In late 2020, the IBM Think Circle for Supply Chain launched. It virtually congregated an elite and innovative group of senior supply chain executives across industries and geographies. Many of them are from Fortune 500 companies.
Their discussion and topics have evolved as time has produced more challenges that were perhaps not even imaginable in the early days of the global pandemic.
Over the same period, the very rapid advancement of technologies such as generative artificial intelligence (AI), intelligent automation, and quantum computing has opened up vast opportunities to become more agile and resilient.
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