How Will Fujitsu's AI Agents Optimise Global Supply Chains?

Fujitsu has unveiled a new collaborative multi-AI agent technology to optimise supply chain efficiency.

Through this technology, it is securely linking agents across multiple companies, helping businesses respond quickly to changing environments.

Joint trials will soon begin, putting these agents’ security and agility to the test, with plans to expand into new industries.

Supply chain agility

Fujitsu, a leading Japanese multinational in information and communications technology, has earned a reputation as a trusted partner for digital transformation worldwide through a broad portfolio of services and solutions.

The company focuses on five core technologies: AI, computing, networks, data & security and converging technologies.

Fujitsu has now unveiled a new multi-AI agent collaboration technology designed to enable secure cooperation within supply chains, helping companies respond swiftly to evolving conditions.

This innovative technology facilitates interaction among AI agents from different companies in a supply chain, allowing them to consider changes detected by others and swiftly adapt.

It supports supply chain agility and shields operations from disruptions by enabling early detection of changes, empowering business leaders to make timely, risk-mitigating decisions.

Starting in January, Fujitsu will begin field trials of this technology with Rohto Pharmaceutical Co., in partnership with the Institute of Science Tokyo.

While it aims to streamline regular daily supply chain operations, its greatest strength lies in accelerating recovery during demand fluctuations or external crises that impact business continuity.

Risk mitigation

After trials with Rohto Pharmaceutical, Fujitsu will continue advancing its technological enhancements, aiming to expand into industries such as manufacturing.

It will also work to implement technology for more complex supply chains, ensuring that every business can mitigate risk through its multi-AI agents.

Through this, the company aims to drive global supply chain transformation. Its technology can enhance supply chain resilience, sustainable business operations and transform corporate supply chain strategies.

With its Uvance business model, Fujitsu's technology enables secure data collaboration paired with AI agent cooperation across industries and borders.

This results in greater resilience, improved reliability, governance in multi-vendor environments and sustainable industrial growth.

“Science Tokyo is actively promoting Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) research and working to improve efficiency across the entire industrial value chain," explains Katsuki Fujisawa, Professor, Digital Twin Research Unit at Institute of Science Tokyo.

"Moving forward, by collaborating with Fujitsu's agentic AI technology to optimise the entire supply chain, we aim to contribute to the advancement of industry and the resolution of societal challenges.”

Fujitsu technology

The new technology features two key components: global optimal control for AI agents and a secure inter-agent gateway.

Optimal control
This technology approximates the preferred conditions for a partner company using limited information and can quickly identify the overall optimal state for the entire supply chain. It enables effective collaboration between various agents from different companies, without the need of confidential or sensitive data.

Fujitsu secure inter-agent gateway
This gateway allows for seamless and secure collaboration among external AI agents, protecting confidential information while providing distributed AI training. Throughout setup, the AI agents can learn supply chain characteristics by leveraging knowledge distillation - data is drawn from multiple 'teacher models' into a 'student model'. 

While being used, this model is able to uncover malicious attacks and prevents the spread of confidential information. It repeatedly simulates AI agent behaviour and updates information in a safe format.