AI adoption jumps across logistics as retailers face supply chain readiness gap

AI use across UK logistics has surged in the first months of 2026, but a new report warns that many supply chain operators still lack the data and systems needed to make the technology work properly.
The research created by Parcelhero, titled Putting the AI into Supply ChAIns, found that the proportion of UK transport and storage firms using AI rose from 16.1 per cent to 27.1 per cent in the first quarter of the year.
It said the 11 per cent jump showed that AI was moving beyond trial projects a