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From Spreadsheets to Swarms: How Agentic AI Rewrites the Retail Supply Chain

Supermarkets look simple from the aisle. Milk is cold. Apples are stacked. Shampoo is there because, apparently, civilization requires thirty-seven variants of “moisture repair.” Behind that calm retail surface is a coordination machine that never really sleeps: demand planners, inventory teams, procurement staff, suppliers, warehouse coordinators, truck schedules, exception reports, and the occasional emergency because one popular SKU suddenly became everyone’s personality for the week. ...

April 8, 2026 · 18 min · Zelina