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Executive voices By Justin King 25 Aug 2026 I talk to supply chain and IT leaders every week about where AI actually delivers value versus where it just adds noise. So when IDC shared research surveying over 2,000 supply chain professionals across every industry and geography, I wanted to see if the data matched what I'm seeing on the ground. Mostly, it did, and it sharpened a few things I've believed for a while. 1. Adoption is easy. Accountability to an outcome is hard.

AI has moved well beyond experimentation. Across industries, companies are investing heavily in AI to improve planning, automate processes, and help employees make better decisions. The potential is enormous. Yet many organizations are discovering a fundamental challenge: Knowing what AI can do is very different from operationalizing it. The next wave of enterprise transformation will not come from adding another AI application or deploying another copilot.

The next round of Remix agent hackathon is underway, and this time, Kinaxis partners are taking the controls. Cohort 1 showed what customers could build from the supply chain challenges they know firsthand. Across 18 teams, participants turned their own planning realities into agent concepts built around practical business problems.

This post is sponsored by Genpact and co-authored by Gaurav Goel, Head of Supply Chain Planning, Genpact & Erik Gudas, Supply Chain Planning Leader, Genpact. Supply chain leaders have spent decades improving planning. Forecasts are more sophisticated. Scenario analysis is faster. Planning platforms can process vast amounts of data and evaluate more possibilities than ever before. Yet disruptions continue to expose a familiar challenge: better plans do not always lead to better outcomes.

Supply chain leaders aren’t asking whether AI can create value at a high level anymore. Instead, they’re asking whether AI-generated recommendations are trustworthy, how to measure AI’s ROI, and how to scale the benefits New IDC research shows just how much the conversation has shifted: 98% of supply chain organization shave adopted AI, yet only 12% consider themselves leaders.

The first cohort of the Kinaxis Maestro Remix Agent Hackathon has officially concluded, and its three award-winning submissions offer an early look at how agentic AI could reshape supply chain planning. Across the cohort, 18 teams and approximately 100 participants explored how AI agents can help planners investigate issues, interpret complex data, and move from insight to action. Each team brought a different perspective on where agents could create value within Maestro.

Submissions are officially in for the first cohort of the Maestro Remix Agent Hackathon. As judges begin reviewing submissions, they are looking beyond the idea itself. They are evaluating whether each agent addresses a meaningful business need, delivers practical value, executes clearly, and gives users an experience they can understand and trust. Business need: Is the problem worth solving?

Seasoned corporate finance veteran brings more than 25 years of experience working with enterprise software companies through growth, M&A, and strategic transformation Kinaxis® Inc. (TSX:KXS), a global leader in supply chain planning and orchestration, today announced the appointment of Herb Yeh as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Strategy Officer, effective July 27, 2026.

Kinaxis Maestro™ platform to provide the digital foundation to strengthen MANE’s global planning capabilities and support its continued planning transformation Kinaxis®(TSX:KXS), a global leader in end-to-end supply chain planning and orchestration, today announced that MANE, one of the top five leading organizations worldwide in the flavours and fragrances industry, has selected Kinaxis to modernize its planning capabilities as it accelerates global growth as part of a broader...

Kinaxis Maestro™ unifies planning to drive faster decisions and stronger results across a complex North American network Kinaxis® (TSX: KXS), a global leader in end-to-end supply chain planning and orchestration, today announced that ScottsMiracle-Gro, the leading marketer of branded consumer lawn and garden products in North America, is expanding its partnership with Kinaxis.