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Retail merchandising teams spend countess manual hours evaluating new product submissions—crunching revenue models, analyzing sales cannibalization, and writing supplier rejection emails. Powered by *Cloudera AI agents* , this video demonstrates how retailers can transform that tedious, bottlenecked onboarding workflow into a seamless, automated process. As soon as a new product is submitted, autonomous background agents map it against existing inventory, evaluate growth risks, assess market saturation, and highlight specific low-performing SKUs to replace.

An AI project can deliver a great prediction and still fail the business. Rajesh Kelvalkar has seen it happen firsthand. In one mining project, the model worked, but the team discovered that the downstream business process wasn’t configured to act consistently on its recommendations. The technology had done its job, but the transformation hadn’t. Recorded at EVOLVE26 Singapore, this episode of The AI Forecast brings Paul Muller together with Rajesh Kelvalkar, Senior Advisor at Tech Data APJ, to explore what more than 20 years of transformation work has taught him about putting AI into practice.