{"id":908795,"date":"2026-05-28T10:12:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/how-lenovo-built-an-ai-powered-supply-chain\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:12:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:12:04","slug":"how-lenovo-built-an-ai-powered-supply-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/how-lenovo-built-an-ai-powered-supply-chain\/","title":{"rendered":"How Lenovo Built an AI-Powered Supply Chain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/topic\/subject\/operations-and-supply-chain-management\">Operations and supply chain management<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span> by <a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/search?term=Robert Handfield\">Robert Handfield<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>May 27, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/resources\/images\/article_assets\/2026\/05\/May26_27_2223452160.jpg\"   alt><\/p>\n<p><span>Xinhua News Agency\/Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a aria-label=\"Post on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?&#038;original_referer=&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#038;related=twitterapi%2Ctwitter&#038;tw_p=tweetbutton&#038;url=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-analytics=\"share-on-x\"><span>Post<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/product\/how-lenovo-built-an-ai-powered-supply-chain\/H097DM-PDF-ENG\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics=\"buy-reprint-link\"><span>Buy Copies<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><dialog aria-labelledby=\"pdf-benefit-title\"><\/dialog><\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<h2>Summary.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p><span><span><\/span><\/span><\/section>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/2026\/05\/how-lenovo-built-an-ai-powered-supply-chain?language=es\" data-analytics=\"lang-es\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/2026\/05\/how-lenovo-built-an-ai-powered-supply-chain?language=pt\" data-analytics=\"lang-pt\">Ler em portugu\u00eas<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a aria-label=\"Post on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?&#038;original_referer=&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#038;related=twitterapi%2Ctwitter&#038;tw_p=tweetbutton&#038;url=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-analytics=\"share-on-x\"><span>Post<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/product\/how-lenovo-built-an-ai-powered-supply-chain\/H097DM-PDF-ENG\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics=\"buy-reprint-link\"><span>Buy Copies<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><dialog aria-labelledby=\"pdf-benefit-title\"><\/dialog><\/div>\n<p data-first-paragraph=\"true\">Most companies deploying AI in their supply chains are making a common mistake: They are starting with the technology before understanding their data. They launch pilots, experiment with forecasting tools, and deploy isolated optimization engines\u2014then wonder why almost none of it scales. The problem isn\u2019t the AI. It\u2019s that they skipped the step that makes AI trustworthy. Build intelligence on a broken data foundation and you get broken intelligence, every single time.<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a aria-label=\"Post on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?&#038;original_referer=&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#038;related=twitterapi%2Ctwitter&#038;tw_p=tweetbutton&#038;url=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-analytics=\"share-on-x\"><span>Post<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/product\/how-lenovo-built-an-ai-powered-supply-chain\/H097DM-PDF-ENG\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics=\"buy-reprint-link\"><span>Buy Copies<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><dialog aria-labelledby=\"pdf-benefit-title\"><\/dialog><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/topic\/subject\/operations-and-supply-chain-management?ab=articlepage-topic\"><strong>Operations and supply chain management<\/strong><\/a> or related topic <a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/topic\/subject\/ai-and-machine-learning?ab=articlepage-topic\"><strong>AI and machine learning<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2026\/05\/how-lenovo-built-an-ai-powered-supply-chain\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Robert Handfield<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operations and supply chain management by Robert Handfield May 27, 2026 Xinhua News Agency\/Getty Images Post Buy Copies Summary.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Leer en espa\u00f1ol Ler em portugu\u00eas Post Buy Copies Most companies deploying AI in their supply chains are making a common mistake: They are starting with the technology before understanding their data. They launch pilots, experiment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":908796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,24990],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-built","category-lenovo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}