2-4pp
boost in EBITDA
10-20%
decline in costs
5-15%
increase in service levels
15-30%
reduction in working capital
20-30%
decrease in near-term CO2e emissions

About Supply Chain AI by BCG X

Supply chains act as our connective tissue, supporting growth and sparking innovation. But increasingly, they are the source of challenges and constraints. Rising costs, shifting demand, critical disruptions—many companies are in a continuous cycle of assessing obstacles, identifying fixes, and hoping for the best.

Supply Chain AI, our digital supply chain offering, lets companies return to creating value. A combination of digital assets, supply chain experts, and data science and engineering talent, Supply Chain AI takes a holistic approach to transforming a company’s supply chain, from strategy and design through integrated planning and optimized execution. Backed by a unique set of AI solutions from BCG X, we enhance seven key supply chain capabilities: network design and optimization, emissions baselining, risk management, end-to-end planning transformation, digital twin representations, control tower visibility, and logistics and distribution automation.

Supply Chain AI helps organizations build for the future, realizing not only the power of digital supply chain technologies but also their own full potential.

Combining People, Processes, and the Power of Supply Chain AI

The supply chain of the future must be digital, resilient, and sustainable. To deliver, companies need the right strategy and the right mix of human and technical capabilities. Our approach amplifies the power of AI in the supply chain—but just as crucially, we help develop the plans, processes, skills, and culture that fuel and accelerate transformation.

Our digital supply chain consultants work in agile ways that bring out the best of both people and tech. Individual squads have expertise in, and accountability for, specific supply chain topics, and they focus on flexibility and enablement. We address gaps by building on top of existing solutions, realizing the full value of a company's data and in-house systems. We also draw on our world-class change management capabilities to ensure success, now and for the long term. Our customizable approach, fit to a client’s unique goals, follows a general paradigm:
How it works
Introducing End-to-End Supply Chain Transformation
Supply Chain AI’s seven solutions help companies fuse the best of technical and human capabilities, enhancing visibility, agility, and decision-making across the supply chain.
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Launching New Transformation with Supply Chain AI

Emerging technologies, particularly advanced analytics and generative AI, enable businesses to optimize their supply chain processes and decision making, predict flash points, and quickly adjust course. But digital supply chain technologies cover a lot of ground. The aim, and often the challenge, is to use them where they matter most.

Supply Chain AI has a set of specialized AI solutions built by BCG X, that can be combined and customized in ways that maximize value—keeping the focus on the most important opportunities and issues. Each solution provides a rapid diagnostic to uncover high-value use cases, establishing a complete vision before recommending the right combination of people, processes, and technology. Supply Chain AI can be tailored to a company’s unique targets and benchmarks, and our digital supply chain consultants can build and deploy AI-enabled processes in any environment.

Our Clients’ Success with Supply Chain AI

We’ve worked with businesses across industries and across the globe to help build the supply chains of the future. Here are some examples of our impact.

$155 million
annualized run-rate savings
Operational excellence for a health care logistics company
Through a multitiered transformation program, we helped optimize the client’s warehouse footprint and reduced network costs by lowering transportation costs and leveraging synergies. We deployed technology to facilitate planning, increase automation, and reduce manual labor and error rates. And we cut complexity in “kitting” via kit simplification and standardization. The expected outturn: annualized run-rate savings of up to $155 million.
2-4pp
boost in EBITDA
Increased value creation for a global steel producer 
BCG’s digital supply chain experts helped a global steel producer complete a comprehensive digital transformation. Using predictive analytics, we focused production decisions on optimizing margins by building a data management infrastructure and developing advance forecasting algorithms. The outcome: a boost in EBITDA of 2 to 4 percentage points and a transition to net positive from year one onwards.
$100 million
inventory reduction
Inventory optimization for a global medtech player
Using End-to-End Plan by BCG X, and next-generation analytical inventory models, we developed advanced forecasting tools to spark faster, more precise decision making. And to ensure that our client could build on this foundation long after we completed our work, we embedded new processes and upskilled in-house teams. The result: an inventory reduction of more than $100 million in the first 12 months and a 15% increase in forecasting accuracy.

Explore Our Supply Chain AI Offering

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Powered by cutting-edge machine learning and optimization models, BCG X's proprietary advanced analytics solution solves end-to-end supply chain optimization problems easier, faster, and more cost-effectively
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Technology alone can't pilot your business to seamless, efficient planning. End-to-End Plan by BCG X is a holistic planning transformation capability that delivers unmatched value, combining BCG and BCG X's deep expertise with the power of AI.
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Modern supply chains are becoming more complex; managing them doesn’t have to become more difficult. Value Chain Digital Twin by BCG X leverages advanced AI and data-driven modeling to provide predictive insights, streamline operations, and boost performance.
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Meet Our Supply Chain AI Consulting Team

Our digital supply chain consultants are thought leaders on AI in the supply chain—and hands-on practitioners who work side by side with clients on strategy, implementation, and industry-specific topics. Here are some members of our team.

Managing Director & Senior Partner

Dustin Burke

Managing Director & Senior Partner
Chicago

Managing Director & Partner

Manoj Kothiyal

Managing Director & Partner
Boston

PA Product Director - Supply Chain

Ashish Pathak

PA Product Director - Supply Chain
ACC – Gurugram

Managing Director & Senior Partner; Europe, Middle East, South America, and Africa Chair, BCG X

Olivier Bouffault

Managing Director & Senior Partner; Europe, Middle East, South America, and Africa Chair, BCG X
Paris

Managing Director & Partner

Paari Rajendran

Managing Director & Partner
San Francisco - Bay Area

Managing Director & Partner, BCG X

Tristan Mallet

Managing Director & Partner, BCG X
Paris

Managing Director & Partner

Camille Engel

Managing Director & Partner
New Jersey

Managing Director, Senior Partner, and lead of digital supply chain transformation and Value Chain Digital Twin by BCG X

Llorenç Mitjavila

Managing Director & Senior Partner
Barcelona

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