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AI & Automation
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Sysco-Restaurant Depot Deal Puts AI, Data Strategy at Center of Omnichannel Expansion
AI is more likely to support sales productivity and customer insight over time than to serve as a central pillar of the transaction at closing.
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Know Before You Act
How a governed operational knowledge layer and agent health metrics help distributors control agentic AI.
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The Supplier Portal Trap: Why Distributors Should Stop Waiting and Start Enriching
AI-powered enrichment tools can take that raw material and transform it into structured product content.
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Builders FirstSource Deploys AI Development Platform to Speed Digital Projects
The building materials distributor reported a three- to fivefold increase in development speed in early use cases during the first three months of using the platform.
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Home Depot Expands Pro Digital Platform With AI, Project Management Tools
At the center of the update is an artificial intelligence-powered material list builder that interprets project requirements and generates order lists in seconds, allowing contractors to estimate and bid jobs more quickly.
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You Need Someone to Talk To
The ideas will come. Accountability will keep you moving between conversations.
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Sonepar Reports $37.9 Billion in Sales as AI Expands Across Supply Chain
Sonepar’s AI investments come as it scales its digital commerce platform.
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Trump AI Policy Calls for National Standard and Faster Industry Adoption
A single federal standard would reduce the need to navigate differing state rules governing AI use.
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DHL Targets AI-Driven Data Center Boom with U.S. Logistics Expansion
The sites, set to open in 2026, will add more than 7 million square feet of capacity focused on handling high-value equipment such as servers, power systems, and networking hardware.
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From Data to Decision: Kerrie Jordan on AI’s Real Role in Distribution
An interview with Kerrie Jordan, CMO and SVP Product, Epicor Most distributors have more data than they know what to do with. The problem isn’t access to information — it’s the gap between seeing a problem and doing something about it. That’s the starting point for Kerrie Jordan, who holds the unusual dual role of…