supply-chain
2 itemsThe AI that actually makes money in logistics is not a large model. It is a decades-old discipline
In logistics, the AI with the most solid payback is operations research: routing, scheduling, wave planning. Digital twins, LLM dispatching and humanoids are overrated for now.
The money factories save through consignment ends up back in the purchase price
The founding paper on consignment shows it cuts total chain cost only if the buyer's capital costs more than the supplier's. Between OEMs and small suppliers, it is the other way round.