the world ’ s grocers are using ML to drive on-shelf availability – it ’ s probably less than 5 %.
In the field of generative AI , we took our domain knowledge that we ’ ve established in MLOps and we ’ ve applied it , asking ‘ how can Gen AI help improve the supply chain ?’. There are lots of little use cases , but then there are bigger ones like developing supply chain agents that will help augment and drive the productivity of existing supply chain professionals .
Take a warehouse operator , for example : how do we pair an agent to a warehouse operator to help manage the chaos that undoubtedly unfolds every day inside a building ? You ’ ve got a million square feet , 2,000 people , tens of millions of dollars in robots and automation and conveyor belts , hundreds of lorries coming in and going out , all of this product flowing through and if you ’ re in grocery it ’ s perishable . Every day , things go wrong . You ’ ve got employees not showing up , a broken
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