Managing a supply chain with proliferating SKUs and channels, supply stress and demand unpredictability at minimum cost, in least time and with zero errors makes automating the only choice. The future vision of a swarm of connected hardware agents, evolving in dexterity and autonomy, governed by a self-learning software layer drawing intelligence from an extended supply and demand ecosystem, is coming true as we speak. The supply chain accounts for 10-15% of national GDPs for most economies, and is flush with inefficiencies.