Category: Retail

This post is cowritten with Mones Raslan, Ravi Sharma and Adele Gouttes from Zalando. Zalando SE is one of Europe’s largest ecommerce fashion retailers with around 50 million active customers. Zalando faces the challenge of regular (weekly or daily) discount steering for more than 1 million products, also referred to as markdown pricing. Markdown pricing is […]

In this post, we showcase the latest generation of Just Walk Out technology by Amazon, powered by a multi-modal foundation model (FM). We designed this multi-modal FM for physical stores using a transformer-based architecture similar to that underlying many generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

In this post, we show you how to build an ecommerce product recommendation chatbot using Amazon Bedrock Agents and foundation models (FMs) available in Amazon Bedrock.

This post explores an innovative application of large language models (LLMs) to automate the process of customer review analysis. LLMs are a type of foundation model (FM) that have been pre-trained on vast amounts of text data. This post discusses how LLMs can be accessed through Amazon Bedrock to build a generative AI solution that automatically summarizes key information, recognizes the customer sentiment, and generates actionable insights from customer reviews. This method shows significant promise in saving human analysts time while producing high-quality results. We examine the approach in detail, provide examples, highlight key benefits and limitations, and discuss future opportunities for more advanced product review summarization through generative AI.

This is a guest post co-written by Rama Badrinath, Divay Jindal and Utkarsh Agrawal at Meesho. Meesho is India’s fastest growing ecommerce company with a mission to democratize internet commerce for everyone and make it accessible to the next billion users of India. Meesho was founded in 2015 and today focuses on buyers and sellers […]

Companies use time series forecasting to make core planning decisions that help them navigate through uncertain futures. This post is meant to address supply chain stakeholders, who share a common need of determining how many finished goods are needed over a mixed variety of planning time horizons. In addition to planning how many units of […]

Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses statistical and machine learning (ML) algorithms to deliver highly accurate time-series forecasts. Recently, based on Amazon Forecast, we helped one of our retail customers achieve accurate demand forecasting, within 8 weeks. The solution improved the manual forecast by an average of 10% in regards to the […]

This post is a joint collaboration with Andries Engelbrecht and James Sun of Snowflake, Inc. The cloud computing revolution has enabled businesses to capture and retain corporate and organizational data without capacity planning or data retention constraints. Now, with diverse and vast reserves of longitudinal data, companies are increasingly able to find novel and impactful […]

Customers expect personalized contact center experiences. They want easy access to customer support and quick resolution of their issues. Delighting callers with a quick and easy interaction remains central to the customer experience (CX) strategy for support organizations. Enterprises often deploy omni-channel contact centers so that they can provide simple mechanisms for their customers to […]

This post is co-authored by Lezgin Bakircioglu, Innovation and Security Manager at Daniel Wellington. In their own words, “Daniel Wellington (DW) is a Swedish fashion brand founded in 2011. Since its inception, it has sold over 11 million watches and established itself as one of the fastest-growing and most coveted brands in the industry.” In […]