Billions of consumers across Asia-Pacific are served by inefficient distribution models that wastefully fails to deliver the right products at the right time, while consumption power is growing and will recover swiftly post COVID, driving brands and retailers to rebuild recently broken supply chains. Suppliers and retailer SMEs can't get credit, logistics providers don't get forecasts. The problem is growing as demand in Emerging Asia grows, but digitalisation and computing power are rising, as is the power of data science and machine learning technology to obtain actionable insights from the data. The convergence of these topics creates an opportunity for Supply Chain AI, to accumulate a pools of data insights and tools that use data to 'fix' supply chains through continuous optimisation.
