80% of Supply Chain Leaders Plan AI Deployment This Year

Executive Summary

Supply chain organizations are making aggressive commitments to artificial intelligence deployment in 2025. Recent industry research indicates over 80% of supply chain leaders plan to implement AI-enabled solutions for demand forecasting, inventory management, and network design optimization. However, a significant disconnect exists between these deployment plans and current organizational capabilities—less than half of surveyed companies possess the infrastructure to perform predictive and prescriptive analytics that AI systems require to deliver meaningful results. Traditional machine learning remains more practical than generative AI for most supply chain optimization applications. Generative AI is beginning to appear in supply chain applications, but primarily as an interface layer that simplifies how users query system data rather than fundamentally changing analytical capabilities.