Using AI to Accelerate the Data Center Supply Chain | TMSfirst

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Tim Seng, CEO of TMSfirst, highlights the transformative role of artificial intelligence in accelerating the data center supply chain during a recent announcement at DataCloud USA. Building on his company's legacy as the creator of the first global Transportation Management System (TMS) since 1999, which was later sold to Oracle and is now being revitalized with modern AI technology, TMSfirst focuses on integrating these advanced tools directly into infrastructure logistics. The core mission is to move beyond mere discussion of AI and instead implement it practically to speed up commitments and ensure Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are met significantly ahead of schedule, as demonstrated by a recent project that saved a client one hundred million dollars in a single build. The integration of AI extends across the entire lifecycle of digital infrastructure, from development phases to market deployment, allowing companies to move faster and scale operations more effectively than before. Tim notes that while many organizations talk about adopting AI, few actually utilize it within their supply chain operations to drive physical construction and logistics. By leveraging various AI platforms, TMSfirst aims to match the rapid expansion of infrastructure projects with equally accelerated planning and execution capabilities. This approach ensures that as infrastructure giants build bigger and faster, the supporting software and management systems evolve in tandem to handle the complexity and volume of modern data center demands. Looking ahead, the future of the digital infrastructure space is defined by the strategic utilization of AI to drive supply chains for infrastructure builds, a factor that Tim emphasizes is currently underused by most companies. With massive investment figures, such as the three trillion mentioned in the context of global spending, the industry faces unprecedented growth that requires smarter, more efficient management tools to navigate successfully. The conversation concludes with a clear directive: rather than treating AI as an optional add-on, leaders must embed it into the core processes of building and operating data centers to maintain competitiveness and efficiency in an increasingly fast-paced market.

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Welcome to JSA TV where we're covering the latest news, trends, and innovations live from DataCloud USA in beautiful downtown Austin. Joining me today is Tim Seng, CEO of TMS First. Thanks for joining me, Tim. >> Thank you for having me. I'm really happy to be here. It's a very exciting day. We had a big announcement today with our orchestrator platform going off on with all the infrastructure that's happening. You know, we got about three trillion coming at us right now. And we work with the largest data center uh that was sold to private equity and we do everything for them inbound and outbound. But what does TMS first really do and what does our company do for those of the that don't know? >> Tell our audience. Yes. >> Sure. Uh 1999 I put up the first two million. We created the first global TMS in the world. Over a billion5 of that is out there today. We sold it to Oracle. We're doing it again as of 14. This is all with AI technology all in the last five years that we start ramping it that way. But we are bringing AI to the data center supply chain. You'll find that many people talk about AI within what they're doing, but they actually don't use it in the supply chain. So what we do is actually accelerate the commitments of getting the SLA done way before time. And like Williams, we've saved them 100 million just in one build. >> Oh wow, that's a lot. Okay, so you've been doing this for a long time. Speaking of AI, how is AI changing the way digital infrastructure is being designed, built, and operated? >> Well, AI really is helping us. We'll look at every single platform for whether we're using, you know, claude or whatever, whether it's part of development or if it's part of anything. We use them all honestly. Uh, and quite frankly, we use it to accelerate what we're doing faster, bring it to market. But the reality is the AI is really making us fast and throw a product out there way faster. Just like the infrastructure guys are going faster, bigger, we're doing exactly the same thing with AI. >> So, so important to evolve with the industry, right? Um, how has connectivity infrastructure evolved to support nextg the next gen of AI and data center growth? >> What I'm hearing is around three trillion. So, you know, I hear there's a lot of different numbers out there. >> Yeah. >> Plus or minus a couple dollars, but it's a big number. >> Wow. Yeah, that's significant. Um so to wrap it up final question in one word uh what factor would you um define to be the future of the digital infrastructure space? >> Utilizing AI to actually drive the supply chains of the infrastructure builds. You'll find that most companies are not using AI to do the builds. So I use more than one word but it's AI. >> That's okay. I'll allow it to work. >> Well thanks for joining me Tim. It was so good to have you. >> Yeah.