AI for Supply Chains: Learning and Forecasting

Automation for Warehouse Management:

Warehouse management is one of the critical components of supply chains, directly linked to the principal activities: ordering, stocking, picking, and shipping. To orchestrate and automate warehouse activities, we need to learn about the daily operations:

  • what are the most picked items?

  • what corridors are used the most?

  • which forklifts had more breakdowns?

  • which storage places were the fullest, or which had items missing?

With a smart tracker attached to each forklift, we transform it into a smart forklift!

Get the forklift’s position inside the warehouse in real-time and access data that will allow you to:

  • create position heatmaps

  • raise alert for wrong routes

  • identify lost forklifts.

Adding extra sensors to the shelves will make the warehouse intelligent. The sensors will generate data that will feed the AI system, which will learn about usage patterns and generate automation suggestions.


The complete system will work in 3 steps:

1 - Gather data: 

an indoor positioning registration system that collects the positionings of all the forklifts and the locations of shelves and corridors.

2 - Real-time alerts:

the gathered data generate real-time alerts of:

  • forklift in the wrong area

  • lost forklifts

  • unauthorized area access

3 - Analytics and forecasting:

report on tops and bottoms:

  • used routes

  • used forklifts

  • used corridors

Integrate with other systems and have an End-to-End visibility

Cross information from warehouses with details from transportation to have a complete vision from storage to shipping. Have all the cargo ready when the trucks are nearby. On the other hand, replan cargo picking if real-time transportation system alerts for delays.

Share your operational information and insights with selected partners through a blockchain. From suppliers to partners, integrate core KPIs and core checkpoints in a unified information hub.


With AI and Automation unleach a new world of efficiency and optimization:

With trackers and sensors (IoT), learning patterns and predicting events (AI), and trusted sharing system (blockchain), the future supply chains will:

  • reduce retrieval times

  • improving scheduling 

  • improving human allocation

  • pro-active forklift maintenance

  • predictive storage depletion or overstoring

  • sustainability: reduce waste and energy consumption

  • identify forklift charging needs

  • alert for abandoned forklifts or other equipment

  • alert for longstanding forklifts or other equipment

  • optimize warehouse routes and truck transportation routes

  • optimize warehouse layout and placement

If you want to optimize and automate your logistic operations we can be your technological partner. Sensefinity has a complete platform with sensors, trackers, communications, AI and blockchain.

Withouth any strings attached, schedule with us a 1/2 hour to talk about your problems and ideas.