Database of Industry Vendors Offering AI Platforms and Services
As you work to implement AI technologies in your operation, here is a list of service providers, vendors, and companies offering AI solutions covering a variety of operational areas. This is not a complete list, but it gives you a head start on finding the companies that offer the AI solutions you are looking for. If you are interested in being a part of this list, please email managing editor Lindsey Thompson at [email protected].
4R Systems
The 4R Systems suite of solutions and services helps businesses manage inventory as an investment, focusing on high-value processes for optimizing supply chain and inventory management. Mark Garland, president, and CEO of 4R systems, provides insights into the emerging trends in AI retailers should be paying attention to. Learn how Koopman Lumber has partnered with 4R Systems to improve inventory management, assortment planning, and forecasting.
Adobe Firefly
With Adobe Firefly, users can create images, add styles and textures to text, fill image areas with AI-generated content, create social media posts, posters, and flyers, and generate vector graphics—all with simple text prompts.
American Hardware & Lumber Insurance (AHLI)
AHLI is dedicated to meeting the insurance needs of independent hardware stores, lumber and building material dealers, nursery and garden centers, and rental centers throughout the U.S.
Ariadne
A leading location data and crowd analytics provider, Ariadne offers companies a viable commercial opportunity for them to onboard. Their proprietary software not only collects surface data but digs deeper, creating an insightful plethora of patterns of movement easily translated into actionable decisions routed in people flow strategies.
Badger Technologies
Badger Technologies provides actionable data and analytics for retail operations through automation solutions to address out-of-stock, planogram compliance, price integrity, and other operational inefficiencies.
Canva Magic Design
Magic Design is an AI design generator that uses AI to create custom, on-brand, and attention-grabbing designs in seconds.
CashierPRO
Since 2000, CashierPRO has been a leading provider of POS and inventory management systems for small-to-mid-size retailers offering an unbeatable combination of power, price, and easy-to-use features.
ChatGPT/Open AI
ChatGPT is a chatbot and virtual assistant developed by OpenAI. Based on large language models, it enables users to refine and steer a conversation towards a desired length, format, style, level of detail, and language.
Copeland
Copeland is a global climate technology company engineered for sustainability. Copeland continues to build on its 100-year legacy through industry-leading innovation, putting it at the forefront of positive change. It creates sustainable residential, commercial, and industrial spaces through HVACR technologies. Copeland maintains the integrity of goods throughout the cold chain while bringing comfort to people globally.
ECI Software Solutions
For over 30 years, ECI Software Solutions has provided industry-specific, cloud-based business management software and services to help companies run more efficiently and focus on what matters most. John Maiuri, president of the LBM and hardlines group, building and construction division for ECI Software Solutions, shares about the AI platforms the company offers and the ways AI will shape the LBM industry.
Fluent Commerce
Fluent Commerce was founded to solve the problem of retailers needing to adapt quickly to changing customer service needs. The company offers a powerful and exciting inventory availability and distributed order management platform, designed to meet the business needs of the future. Nicola Kinsella, senior vice president of global marketing for Fluent Commerce, shares the practical applications AI has for the retail industry and the importance of good data.
Ganymede Technologies/J3
J3 Point of Sale Software is the premiere POS inventory management system specifically designed and ideally suited for retail hardware stores, lumberyards, small grocery stores, convenience stores with gas pumps, pet stores, liquor stores, general merchandise stores, or other similar businesses.
GMG EnviroSafe
GMG EnviroSafe works closely with businesses to help them meet environmental, health, and safety regulations and reduce the spread of communicable diseases, easily and affordably.
INSURICA
INSURICA is a family-owned business comprising independent retail insurance agencies, program administrators, and risk pool managers that specialize in core industries and business disciplines and share their expertise with the entire group.
InVid Tech
InVid Tech is a security equipment provider offering personal service, consulting, and support from start to finish. They have an extensive security and surveillance offering and many specialty products, including mobile and stationary solar surveillance. Their product management team can assist with custom products and needs, and their products can be found stocked locally throughout North America.
Live Oak Bank
Live Oak Bank is ready to support you with customized loan products focused on your long-term success using strategies beyond the traditional banking experience. Learn more about how AI is impacting the retail channel and considerations small businesses should take before implementing.
Paladin Data Corporation
Paladin Data Corp. develops a digital retail platform that automates complex and time-consuming business operations. Our intuitive technology enables end-to-end automation including: ordering, advertising, in-store marketing, customer management, mobile, e-commerce, and our proprietary Market Driven Inventory Management™.
Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Co.
Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual (PLM) Insurance Co. is a leading property and casualty insurance carrier serving the woodworking and LBM industries. PLM believes every risk is unique and requires specific attention.
