{"id":230274,"date":"2026-09-04T10:06:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/?p=230274"},"modified":"2026-09-04T10:25:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:25:55","slug":"what-are-ai-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/what-are-ai-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"What are AI agents?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"230274\" class=\"elementor elementor-230274 elementor-230268\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-35284412 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"35284412\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1776e598\" data-id=\"1776e598\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8e15fdd elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8e15fdd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">What are AI agents?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8cd4234 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8cd4234\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>AI agents are intelligent software agents that independently pursue a specific goal, carrying out several tasks on their own \u2013 unlike traditional chatbots, which merely answer questions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What does this mean in practical terms for your supply chain?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AI agents could analyse demand, monitor stock levels, identify supply bottlenecks or evaluate planning scenarios. This allows recurring tasks to be automated, thereby specifically reducing the workload on planners.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-04ef9b0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"04ef9b0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Our advice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The benefits depend less on the AI itself than on the quality of the data, the design of the processes and integration into existing planning workflows.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI agents are intelligent software agents that independently pursue a specific goal, carrying out several tasks on their own \u2013 unlike traditional chatbots, which merely answer questions. What does this mean in practical terms for your supply chain? AI agents could analyse demand, monitor stock levels, identify supply bottlenecks or evaluate planning scenarios. This allows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":229928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1758],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scm-glossary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230277,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230274\/revisions\/230277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}