Agentic AI in manufacturing: why do only 5% of projects reach scale? — Panel moderated by SAP at Tech For Industry Show 2026 (Paris Expo Porte de Versailles), featuring :
Benoit Tournier – Value Advisor for Discrete Industries – SAP
Valérie Brusseau – Présidente de l'association Elles bougent et cadre dirigeante dans l'industrie – Elles bougent
Diane Melul – Head of Supply Planning – Sanofi
Youssef Benzakour – VP Operations' Digital Transformation – Forvia
60% of industrial companies are evaluating AI, but only 5% have use cases deployed at scale with measured gains. This panel dissects the gap between the promise and the reality of agentic AI.
On use cases: Sanofi's near "zero-touch" forecasting (30,000 daily AI users, "snackable AI"), Forvia's priorities — centralized planning, maintenance (targeting a 50% MTTR reduction across 5,000 machines), moving from analysis to action — and automotive design cycles dropping from 3 weeks to 48–72 hours.
On barriers: data ontology, trust in agents, confidentiality — and a sobering finding: individual productivity gains vanish at organizational scale. On accelerators: executive AI training, reverse mentoring, gender diversity, a culture of critical judgment — and the guiding principle: "AI proposes, humans decide."
