Why Supply Chain Exceptions Are Becoming the Real Unit of Work

Autonomous exception management is becoming easier to define by the work it owns than by the breadth of its feature list. In 2026, the category still has a recognizable core, but the value increasingly comes from what happens around that core: how operating state is shared, how decisions are coordinated, and how quickly the system can respond when conditions change. Buyers therefore need a definition based on the work the platform is accountable for, not on the longest possible list of capabilit