Leading healthcare consulting firm Salient Advisory has published a landscape report that identifies 7 key health supply chain problems where AI appears most amenable to delivering impact today, along with deployed AI solutions addressing them. AdvertisementTitled “AI Applications in African Health Supply Chains”, the report draws on input from supply chain leaders across global health institutions on health supply chain problems, maps 20 AI solutions currently deployed in health supply chains, and profiles select solutions reporting early impact in African markets. With African health supply chains historically hindered by systemic, well-documented bottlenecks, these findings spotlight AI-powered solutions with real-world deployments that can potentially mitigate growing health supply chain management gaps caused by rapid declines in official development assistance. Governments should establish supply chain cost baselines before procuring AI solutions, develop AI policy frameworks, invest in internal technical capacity, and update procurement processes to ensure AI outputs support effective supply chain planning. What’s needed now is coordinated action, from credible impact evidence to policy frameworks, to move from isolated deployments to system-wide transformation.”