India, Aug. 22 -- Agentic AI is moving supply chains beyond forecasting towards autonomous decision-making as companies respond faster to geopolitical, trade, and operational disruptions.

For decades, supply chain planning ran on a simple premise: gather data, build a forecast, and let humans decide what to do with it. That model is breaking down. Today's supply chains face a level of turbulence that outpaces human decision cycles, including wars, tariffs, sanctions, and sudden policy shifts that can upend a sourcing plan overnight.

In response, a new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging that does not just predict disruption but acts on it. This is the shift from forecasting to autonomous, or "agentic", decision-making...