While a technology, AI has quickly evolved from a novelty that seemingly everyone tested last year to a business workflow process to be considered – a tool to support profitability improvement, and a tool for revenue generation. In other words, it is gaining maturity even while we hear how the infrastructure (OpenAI, Anthropic, Grok, CoPilot, Perplexity, etc.) seemingly changes weekly, if not daily. “Maturity” I’m defining as everyone is not being inundated daily (and at times multiple times a day) with another service from a company purporting to have an AI offering that you “must have today to improve your productivity.” These seemingly were individuals who had never heard of the electrical distribution industry but knew coding and knew that they had the solution to every electrical distributor’s problem. Just “trust them.” They would improve salesperson productivity by 40% in 30 days, increase inventory turns significantly, improve profitability, and more.…
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The Maturing of AI for Electrical Distributors
While a technology, AI has quickly evolved from a novelty that seemingly everyone tested last year to a business workflow process to be considered – a tool to support profitability improvement, and a tool for revenue generation. In other words, it is gaining maturity even while we hear how the infrastructure (OpenAI, Anthropic, Grok, CoPilot, Perplexity, etc.) seemingly changes weekly, if not daily. “Maturity” I’m defining as everyone is not being inundated daily (and at times multiple times a day) with another service from a company purporting to have an AI offering that you “must have today to improve your productivity.” These seemingly were individuals who had never heard of the electrical distribution industry but knew coding and knew that they had the solution to every electrical distributor’s problem. Just “trust them.” They would improve salesperson productivity by 40% in 30 days, increase inventory turns significantly, improve profitability, and more.…
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