Building a supply chain agent with CrewAI

2025 is the year of AI Agents. This can be your first project.

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CrewAI is a fun tool for building agents. In fact, it can be a really good option to brainstorm your agent ideas without writing a lot of code.

Built for: Agent teamwork
Key concept: Role-based collaboration

CrewAI lets you define “roles” like Developer, Analyst, Editor — each powered by an agent persona. Then you give them tasks, and they talk to each other to solve them.

I used Crew AI to build a 2-agent system which create RFQs (Request for Quotes), and compares different carriers and makes the best choice between them.

It is quite effective!

Part 1: Setting up the environment

CrewAI is a python framework so make sure you have python installed. CrewAI is managed by the uv package manager so that has to be installed too.

$ pip install uv

After uv is installed, run the command to install CrewAI