# AI in Logistics: Of All Trends Shaping the Industry, AI is the one Creating the Most Significant Impact

By Craig Austin · Published 2024-01-08 · Updated 2026-03-26 · Transportation on MarketScale
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> AI is enabling logistics leaders to eliminate costly inventory inefficiencies and fundamentally reshape supply chain management strategies

## Key points

- AI is enabling logistics leaders to eliminate costly inventory inefficiencies and fundamentally reshape supply chain management strategies

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How is artificial intelligence (AI) revolutionizing the logistics industry, and what this means for future supply chain management?

[Craig Austin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lcraigaustin/), an Associate Teaching Professor at [Florida International University](https://www.fiu.edu/), sheds light on the transformative impact of AI in logistics, highlighting its potential to reshape how people manage and track inventories.

"AI artificial intelligence promises to be the most transformative of the [various trends](https://marketscale.com/industries/transportation/remote-operation-for-logistics-vehicles/) that are coming around, inventories can be [better tracked](https://cargomatic.com/) and better managed, and you don't have the overstocking which costs a company’s money or the stock out which anger customers," Austin Asserts.

> AI artificial intelligence promises to be the most transformative of the various trends that are coming around, inventories can be better tracked and better managed, and you don't have the overstocking which costs a company's money or the stock out which anger customers.
> *— Craig Austin, Associate Teaching Professor at Florida International University*

Tags: AI in logistics, Cargomatic, Craig Austin, Florida International University, logistics tracking, logistics trends

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