IBM WATSON
BASF : BUILDING A SMART SUPPLY CHAIN
DIGITALISATION
Supply Chain Digital takes a look at the machine learning services available and how they are being adopted within supply chains
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IBM WATSON
Watson is IBM ’ s suite of artificial intelligence ( AI ) services , applications and tools . Watson aims to help businesses unlock the value of data in new ways and remove repetitive tasks from employees to shift the focus to high-value work . This is in addition to allowing companies to predict and shape business outcomes in order to rethink practices and workflow .
A part of IBM Watson ’ s AI services is machine learning . Watson ’ s software has been developed to help data scientists and developers integrate AI into company applications . Watson Machine Learning enables cross-functional teams to deploy , monitor and optimise models quickly and easily .
BASF : BUILDING A SMART SUPPLY CHAIN
BASF Nutrition and Health – a division of chemical group BASF – partnered with IBM in early 2019 as part of its wider vision
NOVEMBER 2019