IBM A.I. ICE : PRECIS

IBM worked with Dun & Bradstreet, a business data provider, to develop a generative A.I. system to analyze and provide advice on selecting suppliers.

The tool, called Ask Procurement, will allow employees to conduct detailed searches with specific parameters. For example, it could find memory chip suppliers that are minority owned and automatically create a request for proposals for them.

Gary Kotovets, chief data and analytics officer at Dun and Bradstreet, said his team of 30 people needed IBM's help to build the system.

To reassure customers that the answers that Ask Procurement provides are accurate, he insisted that customers be able to trace every answer to an original source.

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