FDEs today are constructing agentic AI systems: agents that sense conditions, determine the appropriate action, execute and adapt when circumstances change. The Specific RiskThe FDE model carries additional risks because of the combined nature of the agentic AI technology and the delivery model. But supply chain performance decisions are increasingly made by agents acting on conditions, not on rules your team defined. Maintaining, modifying and extending it requires machine learning engineering skills that most supply chain organizations don’t have and can’t easily hire. Noha Tohamy is an independent supply chain AI adviser and creator of the Decision-First Operating Model.