Anyone using AI app builders for supply chain dashboards?
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I handle logistics data for a small 3PL out of Kansas City, and I keep running into the same wall: we have shipment and inventory data spread across a few systems, but nobody on our team can build even a simple internal dashboard without waiting months for IT. I've been looking at AI app builders as a way to spin up something lightweight myself — mostly just a view of carrier performance and on-time rates that our ops lead can check each morning.
What I can't get a clear read on is how these tools handle data that updates constantly. Our numbers change hourly, and I'm not sure whether a builder that generates an app from a prompt will stay connected to a live source or just freeze a snapshot. I'm also unsure how much of the logic I'd have to fix by hand afterward. Has anyone here tried building something like this for a real operations workflow rather than a demo? Curious what held up once real data came in.