Auto suppliers face EBIT down 25% and $30B/year waste. Legacy planning fails, so SupplyWhy.ai uses agentic AI “Jenae” to add visibility and automate workflows, cutting waste.
Automotive suppliers have faced a 25% drop in EBIT since pre-COVID. While innovation in electric vehicles and other advances should be propelling automotive into the next golden age, the industry faces significant headwinds limiting investments in future-proofing the industry. In this context, it is even more of a tragedy that the automotive supply chain network generates $30Bn of waste every year due to volatility and inefficiencies.
Where is this waste coming from? Existing rules-based planning and execution systems aren't prepared to handle the complexity and volatility of today's multi-tiered supply chains. Spreadsheets and manual work-arounds are often the only glue holding the system together. This is a last-mile problem requiring a targeted solution.
But is automotive ready for AI? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already transforming the Automotive Industry and its impacts are touching all aspects of the business. In the next 5 years, Automotive operations stand to be recast by AI. In Self-Driving cars, we see the potential for AI to shape optimized, agile responses to changing conditions that can save lives and boost efficiency. Up to this point, however, AI had yet to deliver on its promised value applied to supply chain management.
AI is now being applied to shape the future of an agile, "self-driving" supply chain. The latest technological advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) - made popular through consumer-facing applications like ChatGPT - are now being applied to unlock new levels of efficiency and profitability through the orchestration of complex operations.
SupplyWhy.ai offers an Agentic AI SaaS product enabling Learning Supply Chains for large multi-tiered automotive networks where we can demonstrably improve resilience and reduce waste.
Meet Jenae – Think of her as your Yoda of automotive supply chains, but without the cryptic advice. She provides real-time visibility and explainable insights into EDI changes and beyond, then automates actions based on your team’s decisions and tracks outcomes to drive continuous improvement. Start with "driver-assist" and ask Jenae for what you need... then shift to "FSD" when you're ready to hand off repetitive workflows. Self-driving vehicles leverage AI to responsively adapt to the context on the road. The automotive industry deserves AI tools that navigate the ever-evolving supply chain with the same agility.
Far more than a chatbot, Jenae turns the vision of a self-healing, "self-driving" intelligent supply chain into reality, helping leading suppliers and OEMs optimize operations and reduce waste.
The future is here, it’s just unevenly distributed. We’re in production, supporting happier teams, transforming the firefight, and putting value back on the board for leading automotive suppliers. The automotive industry's moment is here.