Kinaxis Inc., a global leader in supply chain planning and orchestration, has introduced Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE), a new engagement model that embeds Kinaxis engineers directly into customer operations to co-build agentic AI use cases on top of the Maestro platform. The FDE model aims to accelerate AI adoption by moving beyond generic AI assistants to operational AI agents that autonomously execute supply chain decisions-such as dynamic inventory rebalancing, supplier risk mitigation, and real-time order promising. Announced at Kinaxis Kinexions 2026 in Las Vegas, the initiative targets large enterprises in CPG, life sciences, and automotive sectors that have struggled to bridge the gap between AI proof-of-concepts and production-grade supply chain orchestration.
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