Cognite, a world-leading Industrial AI company, has announced its Integrated Supply Chain feature, thereby taking theCognite AI and Data Platform capabilities further downstream. This solution will enable industrial companies to see what is happening in real-time across their manufacturing and supply chain functions, get actionably insights, and have a mutual operational context to make better decisions, react to disruptions more effectively, and protect profitability.
Currently, many businesses experience a division between manufacturing and supply chain teams, with each having their own systems, contradictory metrics, and separate processes. This often leads not only to delayed response times to disruptions, but also increased costs and loss of operational agility. Decision-making delays that are tied to operational disruptions can carry a revenue impact of up to 5%, based on industry estimates; for a $1 billion company, losses could be $50 million.
Cognite is introducing new platform capabilities to solve this issue by integrating manufacturing and supply chain operations. The Integrated Supply Chain solution is based on a real-time industrial knowledge graph, which enables production logistics procurement, and external data to be linked. As result, organizational teams can share intelligence and collaborate more efficiently, for example, if issues arise with supply chain disruptions, production constraints, or inventory challenges.
“Right now, manufacturers are trying to drive operational resilience and protect margins however they can. There’s a huge opportunity to drive efficiency by strengthening real-time, context-rich insights and communication between the carpeted and uncarpeted floors,” said Girish Rishi, CEO of Cognite. “Integrated Supply Chain is a natural extension of the Cognite AI and Data Platform that fills the critical data gap between traditional manufacturing systems and pure-play supply chain vendors. We are unlocking value with an integrated ‘Source – Make – Deliver’ framework that empowers industrial heroes to take action before money burns.”
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The new solution helps organizations proactively identify and address issues before they escalate into costly disruptions. Rather than discovering material shortages, quality issues, or logistics delays after production has already been impacted, teams can gain early visibility into potential risks and collaborate on corrective actions in real time.
Key Capabilities of Cognite Integrated Supply Chain
The solution introduces several capabilities designed to improve operational coordination and supply chain resilience:
Productized Connectors: Enables seamless integration and contextualization of data from ERP systems, planning tools, warehouse management systems (WMS), transportation management systems (TMS), external intelligence sources, and cloud data environments without disrupting existing operations.
Extended Semantic Data Models: Delivers packaged and supported supply chain data models that integrate directly with existing production and maintenance data frameworks, creating a unified operational view.
Packaged AI Agents and Workflows: Leverages operational context to analyze live constraints across manufacturing, logistics, fulfillment, and supply chain operations. These AI-driven capabilities can significantly accelerate root-cause analysis and support adaptive planning initiatives powered by agentic AI technologies.
Industry analysts view the integration of production and supply chain data as a critical step toward building more resilient and responsive industrial organizations.
“Cognite’s deep roots in complex data sets, rich data modeling capabilities, and agentic industrial AI make them well-suited to address the current gap between production and supply chain operations that many manufacturers face,” said Simon Ellis, Group Vice President, IDC. “Bridging this gap demands a semantically rich, real-time operational layer capable of supporting both AI agents and AI-native applications that can leverage workforce expertise and trusted context. With this unique approach, industrial organizations can work toward an optimized balance between Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and on-time, in-full (OTIF) that maximizes operational returns while delivering faster, more resilient outcomes for customers.”
Strategic Collaborations to Accelerate Adoption
To support customer adoption and implementation, Cognite is partnering with Deloitte and FourKites, bringing together expertise in supply chain transformation, logistics visibility, and industrial AI.
“Industrial enterprises have long struggled with the latency between factory floor realities and supply chain execution,” said Paul Delesalle, EMEA Supply Chain & Network Operations Practice Leader at Deloitte. “We are seeing a clear industry trend: organizations that break down silos between production and supply chain operations unlock significant competitive advantages. Having real-time insight into the combined factors in the supply chain and manufacturing allows one to make more informed decisions at every step of the plan-source-make-deliver cycle. This holistic method not only bolsters the ability to restore the operation in case of failure, but also decreases expenses and makes the enterprise more flexible and reactive. The companies which are the most successful in this area are in fact changing the very basis of competition.
Partnering with FourKites gives one a greater level of transparency over the movement of goods as well as other logistics aspects. This way, manufacturers are in a better position to gauge the effect of outside disturbances on their manufacturing timetable and ability to meet customer commitments.
“A delay in transit is never just a logistics problem. It ripples into production lines, inventory positions, and customer commitments. By connecting FourKites with Cognite’s industrial AI and data platform, our customers can finally see that full chain of impact in real time and act on it before it costs them time or margins. This is how supply chains move from reacting to disruption to staying ahead of it,” said Mathew Elenjickal, CEO of FourKites.
With the launch of Integrated Supply Chain, Cognite continues to expand its Industrial AI platform, helping manufacturers and industrial organizations create a connected operational ecosystem that aligns production, logistics, and supply chain functions around shared data, real-time intelligence, and proactive decision-making.