Top 5% Supply Chain AI Initiatives Achieve Breakthrough Gains, New GEP-UVA Darden Study Finds
PushButton AI Team ·
Top 5% Supply Chain AI Initiatives Achieve Breakthrough Gains, New GEP-UVA Darden Study Finds
95% of companies are failing at AI. But the 5% succeeding aren't smarter — they just started differently.
You bought the tool. Your team ignored it. $200/month gone, and now you're skeptical of every
95% of companies are failing at AI. But the 5% succeeding aren't smarter — they just started differently.
You bought the tool. Your team ignored it. $200/month gone, and now you're skeptical of every AI pitch that lands in your inbox. That skepticism is earned, not ignorance.
A new GEP and UVA Darden study just confirmed what I've seen across hundreds of implementations: the companies achieving real AI gains didn't start with big transformation projects. They started with one painful, repetitive problem they already understood deeply.
The winners picked a single workflow — forecasting, reordering, vendor communication — and asked AI to handle just that piece. Not the whole operation. One thing.
That first small win created confidence. Confidence created budget. Budget created the next win. No ripped-out systems. No new hires. No coding.
Here's your action: Write down the one task your team complains about every single week. That's where your AI pilot starts. Not with software research — with that list.
One problem. One tool. Thirty days to prove it works.
What's the most expensive "nobody uses it" AI tool still sitting in your tech stack right now?
