Automation and Agentic AI in Logistics & Supply Chain

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

AI is used to reframe the words, fixing spelling mistakes and grammatical mistakes and audio conversion.

Every product you have ever bought moved through a supply chain that is still, underneath the software, a series of hand-offs - planning to procurement to inventory to transport to the last mile - and every hand-off is a place where information leaks, decisions lag, and money quietly disappears. This course is about closing those gaps with the three things actually changing our industry: automation, real AI, and goal-driven agents. It is taught first-person by Ganesh Ravikumar, a practitioner with more than twenty years inside real operations. You will not get theory and buzzwords. Every concept is taught as a real problem, the way automation, AI, or an agent overcame it, and a concrete worked example in US dollars. You will follow three recurring companies - a US grocery distributor, an India e-commerce operation, and a Brazil auto-parts exporter - across the whole chain, so the same principles land in very different environments.

You will learn to measure forecast error as a P&L number and build a demand signal teams trust; position inventory across a network instead of hoarding it locally; attack the empty space and bad timing that bleed transport budgets; design a delivery promise you can actually keep; turn a control-tower full of screens into real control; and design the agentic layer that ties demand, inventory, transport, and last-mile into one decision loop - with the guardrails, escalation, and human authority that keep it safe. You will also cost disruption honestly, make the green case pay for itself, and build a business case a CFO can audit. This is for supply-chain and logistics professionals, operations and planning managers, consultants, and anyone who wants to understand where AI and autonomous agents genuinely earn their place - and, just as important, where they do not. If you want tight, honest, dollar-grounded teaching from someone who has lived the failures as well as the wins, start here, and let's close the gaps together.