Webinar Series: AI for the Inventory and Procurement Work You Don’t Have Time For
15-minute webinars showing how AI can save time on tasks that manufacturers and distributors never seem to have enough hours for.
When
January 29
Time
1:00 PM - 1:20 PM EST
Location
Online
Language
English
Buried in managing inventory and purchase orders? AI can help.
Tracking stock, monitoring purchase orders, and following up with vendors can eat up hours every day – hours that time-crunched teams simply don’t have.
In this webinar series, you’ll see short, real-world scenarios of how AI can provide insights and automation to get inventory and purchase order tasks done faster.
Each webinar is only 15 minutes – because we know how valuable your time is.
Webinar 1: Stop Inventory Detective Work: Let AI Find the Answers for You
Date: January 29, 2026
Time: 1:00pm EST
Every dollar tied up in unsold inventory is a dollar that isn’t driving value elsewhere. Join this 15-minute webinar to see how AI and embedded analytics drive proactive inventory management decisions.
You don’t have time for:
- Hunting through systems to answer, “Do we have this in stock?”
- Switching screens to respond to a simple order status question from a customer.
- Making inventory adjustments based on gut feel.
See how to save time with:
- Real-time visibility into inventory and production impacts with embedded Power BI insights in Dynamics 365
- Spotting and correcting inventory imbalances across locations, and monitoring trends with time-based performance analysis.
- AI summarizing insights and answering questions in plain language – no digging required.
- Automating routine tasks, such as responding to customer inquiries with ERP-backed data directly in Outlook.
Webinar 2: Skip the Product Search Scavenger Hunt: Let AI Surface the Right Items
Date: February 19, 2026
Time: 1:00pm EST
Time spent scrolling through endless product pages is time you could be spending closing sales orders. In this 15-minute session, see how Azure AI Search embedded in Dynamics 365 helps you quickly locate, compare, and act on product data – even across large and complex catalogs.
You don’t have time for:
- Clicking through pages of items trying to locate the right product match.
- Manually comparing attributes to guide a customer to the best option.
- Jumping between product data screens while taking an order.
See how to save time with:
- Fast, intuitive product discovery using category, attribute, and free-text search filters.
- Side-by-side product comparisons that eliminate guesswork and manual review.
- AI-powered search directly inside order entry, guiding customers to the best choice in real time.
Webinar 3: Stop Chasing Vendor Delays: Let AI Prioritize Procurement Impact
Date: March 12, 2026
Time: 1:00pm EST
Not every vendor delay has the same impact — but knowing which ones have the biggest downstream effect can save production hours and protect customer relationships.
In this 15-minute session, see how Copilot in Dynamics 365 summarizes downstream effects across purchase orders, flags high-impact risks, recommends communication actions, and even drafts messages to vendors or colleagues.
You don’t have time for:
- Manually tracing which delayed POs will disrupt production or customer deliveries.
- Switching between systems to gather impacts, call planners, and email suppliers.
- Writing vendor emails from scratch – just to ask about timing or negotiate terms.
See how to save time with:
- AI summarizing purchase order changes and ranking downstream impacts so you focus only where it matters.
- One-click collaboration with planning teams and suppliers directly through Teams or templated email.
- Copilot drafting communication language automatically — helping you get decisions made faster.