Supply chain management (SCM) software with agentic AI capabilities will grow from less than $2 billion in 2025 to $53 billion in spend by 2030, according to Gartner, Inc.
“Simple AI agents are capable of executing discrete supply chain tasks, increasingly enabling organizations to automate routine workflows and freeing up bandwidth of humans to complete more complex tasks,” says Balaji Abbabatulla, VP, analyst in Gartner’s Supply Chain practice. “As supply chain organizations begin to realize, measure and demonstrate business value from such simple AI agents over the next 12-18 months, leaders in these organizations will start prioritizing investments in clusters of simple AI agents to enable orchestration of multi-step workflows with or without humans in the loop.”
Key takeaways:
· The forecast highlights the rapid expansion in both availability and enterprise spend on SCM software that includes AI assistants, and simple AI agents. It also reflects increasing spend on advanced AI agents with agentic AI capabilities.
· Gartner predicts that by 2030, 60% of enterprises using SCM software will have adopted agentic AI features, up from 5% in 2025, as businesses move from planning to deploying agentic AI within supply chain workflows. However, enterprise deployments of AI-driven SCM will lag behind general availability of such capabilities from SCM software providers due to the increasing gap between the technology and other layers of the supply chain operating model.
