Coca-Cola uses AI to improve retailer ordering in Malaysia
Coca-Cola is using AI to recommend which products Malaysian retailers should order and in what quantities through its Coke Buddy platform. The Perfect Basket feature uses Coca-Cola’s Central Recommendation Engine to analyse previous orders, ordering frequency, seasonality, weather, and purchasing patterns among similar businesses. Coca-Cola said Coke Buddy currently supports about 39,000 retail outlets across […] The post Coca-Cola uses AI to improve retailer ordering in Malaysia appeared first on AI News .
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