Supply Chain Technology Is Entering Its Second Phase – Collapsing Coordination Latency Across Nodes

We have spent the last several years embedding AI into supply chain systems.
Forecasting improved. Routing tightened. Visibility expanded. Assistants appeared inside planning tools.
That was the first phase.
The second phase is not about smarter models. It is about where intelligence sits and how decisions are coordinated across the network.
For decades, our systems optimized inside functional silos. Planning optimized forecasts. Transportation optimized routes. Warehousing optimized slotting. E