With AI models vanishing overnight and 85% of German companies worried about US cloud dependence, the five-year architecture decision no longer holds up. Lobster CEO Tim Srock argues that picking a new provider only swaps one set of risks for another.
Budgets are high and strategic relevance is undisputed, yet more than 85 percent of all AI initiatives in logistics fail. The cause rarely lies in the technology. Lobster identifies the five structural mistakes that sink IT projects in the supply chain.
Supply chains will never standardize – and that's not a problem to fix, it's a reality to build for. Here's why flexibility, not uniformity, is what makes AI investments actually pay off.
Onboarding new trading partners shouldn't eat your team's week. With Trading Partner Manager, you set up a branded, guided workflow once — and let partners handle the rest, from details to certificates to connection testing. All you do is hit go.
The thing that kills ERP migrations isn't the cutover. It's the partner layer. Discover the one architectural decision that protects your supply chain, and why waiting until after go-live is where the real cost hides.
80% of supply chain data lives outside your ERP. Learn how Lobster's multi-party supply chain integration connects every trading partner, carrier and system to Snowflake's AI Data Cloud.
Why AI in Supply Chain Fails Without Data Integration
Supply chain leaders everywhere are talking about supply chain data integration, AI, predictive analytics, autonomous planning, Agentic workflows, and digital twins. But in reality, most organizations are still struggling with something far more basic: their data doesn’t connect.