One In 20 Supply Chain Managers Will Oversee Robots By 2030 – Managing robots will become integrated into various departments and job functions, similar to how IT has evolved within organizations, predicts Gartner.
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>Eighty percent of humans will engage with smart robots on a daily basis, and one in 20 supply chain managers will manage robots, rather than humans, by 2030, according to Gartner, Inc.
>Organizations are placing greater emphasis on enhancing the capabilities of their existing workforce by supplementing with robotics due to factors like labor scarcity and rising costs. Smart robots have been identified by chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) as an important investment area, though many acknowledge their organization lacks internal robotics expertise to maximally leverage these innovative technologies.
>“CSCOs must develop an organizational structure to support the management of growing fleets of robots by creating a warehouse automation strategy,” said Abdil Tunca, Senior Principal Analyst in [Gartner’s Supply Chain practice](https://www.gartner.com/en/supply-chain). “Managers will encounter different scenarios when managing robots than they would with people, especially when managing fleets of task specific and polyfunctional robots, which will navigate more tasks and spaces within warehouses and fulfillment centers.”
>As robot fleets expand rapidly, more companies will adopt and explore diverse applications for robotics. Initially, when fleets are small and specialized, a technical professional or engineer will oversee operations within specific functional boundaries. However, as fleets grow and companies embrace varied robotics use cases, establishing a management structure to oversee robotics operations becomes essential.
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Five percent within five years. Seems reasonable enough as a prediction. Much more realistic than most.
19 in 20 supply chain managers will also be replaced by robots.
Great… Many Supply Chaim Managers I met shouldn’t even have been in charge of people let alone a machine. Either they sell the robots with very good instructions or we will have ground zero for the uprising of the machines.
Boy I can’t wait to both lose all creative and admin jobs to bots and then *also* lose all the manual labor jobs so we just go broke, homeless, and hungry. I’m sure our corporate masters will take care of us though, surely.
Any large warehouse already has this?? Why is this news.
Only tiny warehouses don’t use robots nowadays.
And the pickers working there…? Not much different than drones. (I’ve been one for many summers)