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Accenture and NVIDIA to Team with KION to

Optimize Supply Chains with AI

KION, Accenture, and NVIDIA jointly of robots within them,” said Jensen Huang, also in raising their performance standards
showcased how clients can define founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “By integrating with technology, data, and AI, helping our
ideal set-ups for new warehouses and Omniverse and Mega into their solutions, clients operate autonomous, safe supply
continuously enhance existing facilities KION and Accenture can dramatically chains that better serve their customers
with Mega, an NVIDIA Omniverse blueprint accelerate the development of industrial AI and consumers, enhance productivity and
for large-scale industrial digital twins at the and autonomy for the world’s distribution efficiency, and create new value.” Going
Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025. and logistics ecosystem.” Further, the digital forward, the three partners will work to
The companies are building physical AI- twin will simulate and test configurations, integrate the digital twin with a fine-tuned
powered digital twins with NVIDIA software while also training the warehouse robots to vision language model to capture real-time
to improve productivity and the functional handle changing conditions like demand, insights from warehouses, reducing the
design of intelligent warehouses, which inventory fluctuations, and layout changes. risk of bottlenecks, accidents, and other
operate with automated forklifts, smart The digital twin will be integrated with unforeseen events, pairing cameras, robots,
cameras, and the latest automation and KION’s warehouse management software, and NVIDIA NIM, a set of services for
robotics solutions. By utilizing both NVIDIA enabling companies to assign tasks deployment of foundation models to edge
Omniverse and Mega, KION will provide like moving goods from buffer zones devices in the warehouse. This partnership
digital twins of warehouses to allow facility to storage locations to virtual robots. between the three companies was one of
operators to design the most efficient and Advanced AI will power the virtual robots, three announcements Accenture made
safe warehouse configuration without which can plan, execute, and refine these this week to coincide with CES 2025.
interrupting operations for testing. This will tasks in a continuous loop that simulates The company also released its 2025
include optimizing the number of robots, and optimizes real-world operations with Technology Vision report, which publicizes
workers, and automation equipment. The infinite scenarios. “Modernizing supply research on how AI will drive new levels
digital twin will provide a testing ground chains to make them more resilient and of autonomy for businesses and unlock
for all aspects of warehouse operations, agile, with real-time flexibility, is the next innovation opportunities. The company
including facility layouts, robot fleet digital frontier,” said Julie Sweet, chair also announced Accenture AI Refinery for
behavior, and the optimal number of and CEO of Accenture. “This collaboration Industry, a solution containing a collection
workers and intelligent vehicles. “Future with our long-term client KION and partner of 12 industry-specific agent solutions
warehouses will function like massive NVIDIA will break exciting new ground in to assist organizations with building and
autonomous robots, orchestrating fleets not only reinventing the warehouse, but deploying custom AI agents.

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