The potential use of Machine Learning in firms: The evidence of industrial enterprises

The development of various types of technologies with the growth of the generation of huge amount of data from different sources (sensors, smartphones, social media, ...etc) have led industrial companies' management to new challenges to achieve at all levels, particularly in the supply chain. Taking useful insights from existed data could have a main role to provide a major gain in decision making within firms. However, it requires to contain different skills of the field of Artificial Intelligence especially the Machine Learning. In other side, industrial firms explain an enormous need to gain the support of Machine Learning to provide recommended plans for various Supply Chain's functions based on wireless collected data, especially for areas that need a high level of predictions and can generate through which a great reduce of firm's costs. In this context, this paper tries firstly to investigate the literature dealing with the use of Machine Learning under Supply Chain functions of companies through the word, and expose the case of industrial firms in Morocco with conclusions and perspectives in a second part.