Why AI in logistics
The supply chain is an optimisation problem — the perfect playground for AI.
Volatile demand, rising transport costs, relentless pressure on lead times, environmental requirements: logistics and supply chain operate under continuous constraint. By nature it is one vast optimisation problem — which makes it an ideal domain for artificial intelligence, bringing visibility where uncertainty once reigned and genuine optimisation where rules of thumb once sufficed.
This AI conference dedicated to logistics illustrates concrete use cases, backed by real examples: demand forecasting, route optimisation, warehouse management, disruption anticipation, document automation. Romain Rissoan also stresses the prerequisite that is too often underestimated: data quality and availability, without which even the best models remain ineffective.
The talk addresses supply chain, transport and operations directors as well as front-line teams. The goal is a realistic picture: which use cases deliver quick value even with an imperfect information system, which ones require clean data first, and how to bring teams along in a continuous-improvement mindset rather than a technology project disconnected from the shop floor.