Quantum Computing for the Supply Chain – Delivering New Efficiencies

Finding optimal delivery routes gets incrementally more difficult the more stops are added. Factor in the other variables that might affect the supply chain and you quickly exceed the constraints of current classical computing, leading some companies to resort to heuristics, or rules of thumb, to determine routes.

Quantum computers, which approach the problem in a novel way, can solve routing problems and minimize the resources needed. Early use cases have proven that they can deliver better solutions faster than classical technologies.

Different quantum computing technologies have different advantages and disadvantages for optimization problems like routing. But all current quantum computers have a limited number of qubits – a measure of quantum computing power – and have a high error rate.

Hardware vendor roadmaps indicate that they plan on being able to reduce

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