| | OCTOBER 20258CIOReviewDRIVING INNOVATION AND TRANSFORMATION WITH AI-POWERED LOGISTICSBy Patrick Chew, Vice President - AI & Data Science, AIT Worldwide LogisticsPatrick is Vice President of AI & Data Science responsible for 3 core functions ­ AI Governance, Data Enablement and Business Intelligence & Analytics at AIT Worldwide logistics reporting to the President. Over the past 25 years, he has been assisting many Fortune 500 organizations make appropriate and intelligent decisions based on facts instead of intuition to substantiate key decisions making at the operational, tactical & strategic levels. Patrick strongly believes that AI & Data Science together with Business Intelligence is about leveraging technology & process to build strong data foundation and transforming data into information, information into knowledge and knowledge into actions. Intelligence is derived by harnessing insights leading to pivotal business actions and decisions ultimately leading to become a data-driven organization. Patrick's Professional Journey and Key Experiences in LogisticsAfter spending many enjoyable years entrenched in IT Support, & OLAP development, I had a nagging desire to understand how the business side operates as consumers of IT deliveries. That propelled me to cross the bridge several times into business functions which included Operations, Finance and Strategy. Having sharpened my business-operations-data prudency, I continue broadening my data-driven aspirations across several industries, adding Logistics to my vertical repertoire makes logical sense as my next step. Supply Chain Logistics ecosystem, process and data landscape is complex, convoluted and challenging so it is an attraction to me.Trends and Technology Advancements in AI and Data Science Today's "instant-everything" culture has customers demanding instantaneous fulfillment driving the need and technological capabilities to track every shipment from origin to destination providing traceability or progress. This is profoundly challenging in today's last mile disparate applications/systems with yesterday's need to integrate them in addition to non-negotiables on-time deliveries, accuracy and speed. It's the stretch between digitization and digitalization that's only possible with strong data foundation and a well-integrated network. Given the bountiful offerings of AI capabilities, organizations Patrick ChewARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEIn My opinon
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