India, June 10 -- If you walk into the control room of a modern Tier-1 auto components manufacturer, you likely will not see piles of spreadsheets anymore. You will see massive screens displaying SAP HANA dashboards, Oracle Demantra forecasts, and SAP Ariba supplier portals.

Many supply chain leaders believe that because they have implemented these heavy-hitting enterprise systems, they have achieved "digital transformation". But there is a hidden trap: automation is not intelligence.

Let us look at a "typical day" at NexGear Auto Systems. It has top-tier enterprise resource planning (ERP) and advanced planning systems (APS). But let us see what happens when volatility hits, and why transitioning from automated to agentic AI is the real...