Artificial Intelligence: Making Machine Learning Analytics Work for Your Retail Operation

Artificial Intelligence - A Promising New Tool

If you aren’t thinking five moves ahead in today’s high-stakes game of retail chess, you’ll find your business outmaneuvered and backed into a corner.

The key to winning this game is being able to decide on the right technologies to leverage in the fight.

Just as a chess master must choose whether to zig and zag like a knight or make a laser-straight run with a bishop to outsmart the opponent, selecting the right tool to optimize retail operations will depend on a lot of factors.

In this paper, we will look at the various challenges facing retail today and then focus on a technology that many are choosing as a solution.

This time we’ll be considering artificial intelligence (AI) as a promising new tool to solve retail challenges and drive bottom-line results. Although it’s been around for a while, AI is just now coming into its own as a supply chain tool. As you’ll read in this paper, it’s got tremendous promise as a means to streamline operations by improving processes like routing and by making autonomous driving possible.

Once those technologies become the norm, you will be challenged to keep up without modernized practices. That’s why we at C3 Solutions want to share what we’ve learned about AI and how it fits in the retail supply chain.

One of the ways we see future success is through the proper application of technology like automated yard and dock management. Once those automated trucks start rolling, being able to seamlessly manage operations at the dock doors will be an even more critical function than it is now.

We hope you find this exploration of AI interesting and helpful as you plan for the continued and future success of your retail operation.