Suppose someone on your operations team wants to ask their AI assistant : “Which orders are going to miss today’s shipping cutoff? Check inventory at the other warehouses and create transfer requests where we can cover the shortages.” That sort of agentic workflow requires calling APIs. The agent needs current orders and available inventory; yesterday’s report won’t tell it what stock is still available this afternoon. And it needs to write transfer requests back into the fulfillment system. To make the company’s internal order management API available to an agent, an engineer might build an...

Source: The New Stack