For years, automation was associated with conveyor belts, warehouse management systems (WMS ), and robots for moving goods . Today, the concept has evolved toward facilities where artificial intelligence (AI) , sensors, and automated systems work together to make decisions with minimal human intervention. These facilities are also known as dark warehouses .
But for Karolina Pulido, CEO of GIEicom , not every automated distribution center can be considered a dark warehouse . “The essence lies in the convergence between artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things (IoT) so that the automation systems can manage themselves,” she explains in an interview.
The specialist points out that the real change lies not in operating in the dark, but in creating ecosystems where machines and systems “talk” to each other and are able to learn and act in real time .
Pulido calls this evolution a kind of “neurologistics .” Just as neurons exchange information to generate responses, the supply chains of the future will be made up of intelligent nodes capable of perceiving, analyzing, and acting in a distributed manner.
If in the 2000s the priority was to produce at the lowest cost and in the 2020s it became to deliver in the shortest possible time, by 2030 the dominant variable will be uncertainty.
“It is impossible for a human being, however brilliant, to make the right decisions in the face of so many disruptions. Technology becomes necessary to respond in real time,” he says.
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