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AI for Retail
A Practical Guide to Modernize Your Retail Business with AI and Automation
Francois Chaubard (Author)
9781394184699, Wiley
Hardback, published 17 April 2023
336 pages
23.1 x 16 x 3 cm, 0.522 kg
The coming of the AI revolution in brick-and-mortar retail In AI for Retail: A Practical Guide to Modernize Your Retail Business with AI and Automation, Francois Chaubard, AI researcher and retail technology CEO, delivers a practical guide for integrating AI into your brick-and-mortar retail business. In the book, you’ll learn how to make your business more efficient by automating inventory management, supply chain, front-end, merchandising, pricing, loss prevention, e-commerce processes, and more. The author takes you step by step from no AI Strategy at all to implementing a robust AI playbook that will permeate through your entire organization. In this book, you will learn: AI for Retail is the comprehensive, hands-on blueprint for AI adoption that retail managers, executives, founders, entrepreneurs, board members, and other business leaders have been waiting for.
Introduction: Why You Need This Book as a Retail Leader 1 Section 1 Introduction to the AI Revolution 11 1 How Ai Has Revolutionized Many Other Industries over the Last 20 Years 13 2 The Three Myths of How AI Will Transform Retail 37 3 How AI Will Automate and Optimize Retail 51 4 Level- Setting the AI Doomsday- ism 67 Section 2 AI Theory 75 5 What Is AI? 77 6 From CPUs to GPUs 84 7 Optimization 88 8 Measuring AI Performance 94 9 AI Learning Techniques 100 10 Simulators and AI 111 11 OODA Loops 116 12 Hierarchy of Data Maturity 120 13 A “General Theory for Retail AI” 125 Section 3 Applications of AI in Retail 137 14 The Inefficiencies in Retail Today 139 15 AI for Merchandising 143 16 AI for Inventory, Ordering, and Supply Chain Management 153 17 AI for Replenishment and Labor Management 177 18 AI for Labor Budgets and Scheduling 193 19 AI for E- Commerce and Customer Service 199 20 AI for Warehouse and Distribution Centers 212 21 AI for Checkout 227 22 AI for Pricing and Promotion 254 23 Other AI Use Cases 263 Section 4 Implementation 269 24 Create your “AI Strategy and Road Map” 271 25 Buying vs. Building AI 285 26 How to Run a Proof of Concept Bake- off Effectively 292 27 Transitioning to a Fact- based, Data- driven Culture 303 About the Author 309 Index 311
Subject Areas: Computer science [UY]
