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Qatar digital tool adoption helps mitigate supply chain risks during prolonged crises
Digital analytics and predictive artificial intelligence (AI) tools have proven essential in converting geopolitical supply chain disruptions into managed operational risks across Qatar, according to an industry expert.
Speaking on the application of technology during extended maritime blockages, Dr Iman Adeinat, a logistics and supply chain expert at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), explained that advanced digital tools enable real-time visibility, demand-sensing, and scenario simulation across national industries.
Dr Adeinat noted that while digital tracking tools cannot alter physical maritime constraints, they allow operators to monitor short transit windows, adjust safety stock levels, and simulate prolonged closures prior to committing capital.
“It worked in three ways. First, visibility: Maritime analytics have tracked vessel movements, the narrow windows when transit was briefly possible in June, and the return to closure in July, in near real time, which is how operators time their decisions.
“Second, prediction: Demand-sensing and inventory models tell a firm how much safety stock to hold and where, which becomes critical when a disruption stretches from weeks into months and overland routes have hard capacity limits. Third, simulation: A digital twin lets you stress-test a six-month, or twelve-month, closure before committing capital, which is no longer a hypothetical exercise.”
Dr Adeinat continued, “Qatar already runs this logic in its food-security early-warning system. The opportunity now is to extend it – from food to industrial inputs, spare parts, and logistics capacity – on shared national platforms. One caveat worth stating plainly: in a conflict zone, ships routinely switch off their transponders, so any honest model has to reason well with missing data.”
She pointed out that Qatari commercial enterprises adapted to ongoing regional volatility by shifting away from just-in-time inventory models toward maintaining larger buffer stocks.
“On the retail and food side, the playbook was textbook resilience. Importers shifted to multiple routes at once, overland through Saudi Arabia, transshipment through the Red Sea, air freight for the perishable and the valuable, and coordinated through Hassad Food and the ministries. Inventory policy swung from just-in-time toward deliberately larger buffers, accepting higher carrying costs as the price of availability,” Dr Adeinat explained.
While domestic production and multi-route sourcing through Saudi Arabia and air freight preserved consumer retail continuity, energy-linked manufacturing continues to face substantial operational friction owing to raw material dependence and maritime transit constraints.
To fortify long-term economic resilience, Dr Adeinat recommended regulating supply chain security with mandated inventory buffers and mandatory stress testing similar to banking solvency standards.
She outlined key policy measures, including formalising treaty-level land corridors through Saudi Arabia, expanding national reserves to cover critical spare parts and industrial inputs, creating a national supply-chain resilience office, establishing regional insurance backstops, and accelerating GCC rail projects.
Source: Gulf Times