The Biggest Bottleneck in Your Supply Chain Isn’t Trucks: It’s Your Data

For all the focus on ports, trucks, and labor shortages, the most persistent constraint in modern supply chains is far less visible: data. When inventory levels are inaccurate, demand signals are fragmented, and supplier information is delayed or inconsistent, the entire network slows down regardless of how efficient the physical infrastructure is. When high-stakes decisions are based on incomplete or outdated information, problems abound. Speed and efficiency are limited by the quality, connectivity, and timeliness of the data driving every decision. Until organizations fix that foundation, every other investment in the supply chain will continue to underperform.

How do you move beyond these bottlenecks? Come to InterSystems READY 2026 to find out. The conference focuses on the next wave of enterprise AI: moving beyond standalone models to intelligent, integrated systems powered by generative AI, autonomous agents, and agentic workflows. Join us April 27–30, 2026 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, MD to explore how modern data platforms, interoperability, and AI are shaping the next generation of enterprise applications.
This year, we have a number of supply chain-specific sessions that explore data’s role in today’s technology innovation landscape. These sessions are broken out into business use-case driven sessions and deeper tech dives at our Tech Exchange.

Tuesday April 28; 2:30 – 3:15pm
Speakers: Chris Cunnane, Global Product Marketing, Supply Chain, InterSystems; Michael LaRocca, Founder & CEO, Ready Computing
Description: This session presents the application solution Ready Computing and its logistics partner, Tesisquare, have built using InterSystems Supply Chain Orchestrator™ for real-time, AI-assisted decision intelligence for hospitals. The solution enables hospitals to execute optimized decisions to avoid procedure delays and cancelations due to misaligned inventory and procedures schedules. Additionally, learn about other supply chain applications in non-healthcare sectors.

Wednesday April 29; 1:30 – 2:45pm
Speakers: Mark Holmes, Global Head of Supply Chain Strategy, InterSystems; Ming Zhou, Global Head of Supply Chain Product Strategy, InterSystems
Description: Come meet the owners of InterSystems supply chain product and global market strategy to learn about how we boost InterSystems IRIS® to optimize supply chain business outcomes, especially within healthcare.  This will be a relaxed interactive session with only 15 minutes of presentation.  Learn what we are doing with our supply chain technology for hospital procedure fulfillment but also more broadly in other sectors leveraging Agentic AI and why it matters.  Bring your questions you have always wanted to ask!

Tuesday April 28; 4:14 – 4:30pm
Speaker: Chloe Langley, Senior Solutions Developer, InterSystems
Description: Supply chains move quickly, and even slight disruptions can have catastrophic consequences for your business. In healthcare, the stakes are even higher. We’ll take a look at how leveraging some of the same InterSystems Supply Chain Orchestrator technology—an extensible data model, a flexible analytics framework, and an issue detection and analysis system—can empower supply chain professionals in both spaces to identify, evaluate, and solve difficult problems with confidence backed by their data.

Wednesday April 29; 1:30 – 1:50pm
Speaker: Chloe Langley, Senior Solutions Developer, InterSystems
Description: Supply chain data is often fragmented across WMS, ERP, and ad hoc sources, limiting its usability for decision support. This session shows how InterSystems Data Studio™ enables rapid development of low-code data pipelines to ingest, integrate, and normalize disparate data into a canonical model. By accelerating data flow and standardization, organizations can deliver consistent, decision-ready data—demonstrated through a warehouse contingency labor use case.

Thursday April 30; 11:00 – 11:20am
Speaker: Chi-Chen Chang, Solutions Developer, InterSystems
Description: Business users often struggle to translate intent into effective AI interactions. This session explores how context engineering bridges that gap by orchestrating domain, business, and user context. This approach improves AI relevance and accuracy, enabling more intuitive interactions, greater trust, and higher productivity, illustrated through a supply chain example.

Regardless of your industry, from healthcare to logistics, if you’re focused on improving your supply chain, these sessions will show you how InterSystems technology can help. Register for InterSystems READY 2026 here.