Multi-agent systems are moving from pilots into live supply chains
The shift is not more chat. It is software allowed to book, reroute, and escalate with a named owner.
For two years, multi-agent demos lived in slideware: a planner agent, a buyer agent, a logistics agent, all talking in a sandbox. This season the same pattern is showing up in production, mostly in narrow lanes. One agent proposes a reroute. Another checks inventory. A third opens a carrier booking. A person still confirms the expensive moves.
The article to write, if you run a network, is an operating policy. Which actions can an agent take without a click? What is the loss limit? Where is the log? Teams that skip that page will not fail in the demo. They will fail on a Thursday when a lane closes and the agent keeps spending.
