Chitransh Sahai, Cofounder & CEO of GoComet, speaking at Manila Horizon 2026.
As global trade grows more complex and disruptions ripple faster across borders, supply chain leaders in the Philippines are being pushed beyond basic visibility toward intelligence-driven operations.
This shift took center stage at Manila Horizon 2026, a forum hosted by GoComet at Sheraton Manila Bay that gathered senior executives from major enterprises including Jollibee, IMI, and Century Pacific Foods to explore how artificial intelligence is redefining logistics, resilience, and decision-making.
The discussions reflected a growing consensus among industry leaders: knowing where shipments are is no longer enough. In a country that serves both as a consumption-heavy market and a critical import gateway, supply chains are constantly exposed to port congestion, fragmented logistics networks, and global shocks that quickly cascade into domestic operations.
What enterprises increasingly need are systems that can interpret live data, anticipate risk, and guide action in real time.
“Visibility tells you where things are. Intelligence tells you what to do next,” said GoComet Cofounder and CEO Chitransh Sahai. “AI helps supply chains move from reacting late to planning early, which is where real resilience is built.”
Richardson Blasco, Senior Director Supply Chain at Jollibee and Lucille, lead for Supply Chain Projects, at Jollibee in a fireside chat with Santosh Yamakanmardi, AVP Client Growth & Success – Global Enterprise Accounts at GoComet on shaping the future of supply chains.
Sahai emphasized that AI’s role in logistics is not about replacing people, but about sharpening human judgment. By automating monitoring, exception detection, and data consolidation, intelligent platforms allow supply chain teams to spend less time chasing information and more time focusing on strategy, supplier collaboration, and scenario planning. For Philippine enterprises modernizing their operations, this human-centered approach to AI is proving critical.
“Technology only creates impact when it fits naturally into how teams work,” Sahai said. “The goal isn’t more dashboards — it’s fewer surprises.”
Momentum around AI-powered supply chain platforms is clearly building in the Philippines. GoComet has operated in the country since August 2021 and has recorded roughly 2.5 times annual growth in the local market. The Philippines now represents nearly 20 percent of GoComet’s total Southeast Asia customer base, highlighting the country’s rising importance as a regional hub for supply chain innovation.
Industry leaders at the forum noted that this trajectory mirrors a broader shift, with supply chain intelligence increasingly viewed as a strategic capability rather than a back-office function.
At Manila Horizon, Sahai also unveiled what he described as the next phase of supply chain intelligence: a move from automated workflows toward more autonomous logistics operations.
Central to this vision is GoComet’s AI Centre, which integrates multiple intelligent systems that continuously observe operations, reason over real-world context, and support teams across planning, execution, and risk management. These AI agents function as digital assistants embedded directly into daily workflows.
Among the capabilities showcased was Incident Lens, which links live port conditions, weather events, and geopolitical developments directly to individual shipments to enable early disruption detection. Another highlight was Viera, a conversational AI that allows teams to query logistics data in natural language and receive instant, actionable insights.
Together, these tools transform millions of data points from shipments, documents, and communications into prioritized and explainable actions, helping enterprises double productivity, cut freight costs by as much as 30 percent, improve inventory turnover by 17 percent, and strengthen customer satisfaction outcomes.
Participants agreed that the next chapter of supply chain transformation in the Philippines will depend heavily on ecosystem collaboration, with enterprises, logistics providers, and technology platforms sharing data to build collective resilience. The conversations in Manila underscored a clear reality: AI is no longer a future concept for Philippine supply chains.
It is already reshaping how organizations anticipate risk, protect service levels, and scale with confidence in an increasingly unpredictable global environment.