Exiger President Calls AI Essential for Supply Chain Visibility

Carrie Wibben Kaupp, president of supply chain analytics firm Exiger, said AI is essential to achieving the visibility needed to understand where products and their materials come from. In an Axios interview published on October 1, 2025, Kaupp framed supply chain intelligence as no longer an "economic nice-to-have" but a "national security imperative," describing AI as the only scalable response to today's threat environment. Her core argument is that without AI, companies and governments cannot attain the visibility required to trace the origins of products and materials.