Emro, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based supply chain management software corporation, is leading an innovative purchasing transformation based on 'Agentic AI' by showcasing various AI agent functions in its purchasing solution.
Emro's AI agents perform functions such as calling application programming interfaces (APIs) and utilizing tools based on various large language models (LLM) optimized for customer environments, enhancing generation of search augmented generation (RAG) from accumulated purchasing-related data or documents within corporations, and conducting data analysis and result provision through SQL query generation.
In particular, the AI agent can expand its access to more information and utilize it by internalizing features related to the MCP that enable AI to access various internal and external resources or provide information to external systems.
Corporate purchasing personnel can ask questions in natural language through a chatbot in the purchasing system or execute AI agents via action buttons and pop-up windows to search for partners, check purchasing work guides, navigate the purchasing system menus, review similar order performance, and draft purchasing-related documents and reports, thus processing various purchasing tasks more easily and quickly.
Through this, not only will the efficiency and accuracy of purchasing tasks dramatically improve, but the accessibility and usability of the purchasing system will also significantly increase regardless of user proficiency. Ultimately, it is expected to contribute to strengthening the supply chain competitiveness of corporations by enabling sophisticated purchasing decision-making based on data-driven insights.
Emro has already supplied these purchasing-specialized AI agent functions in the next-generation purchasing system construction project of the largest information technology (IT) corporation in the country. It is rapidly securing use cases for Agentic AI by conducting proof of concept (PoC) projects utilizing AI agents for similar order performance searches and quotation comparison analyses with a leading plant corporation in the country.
Additionally, through continuous research and development, Emro plans to expand the application scope of purchasing-specialized AI agents and enhance its solutions into an intelligent platform capable of solving more complex supply chain management problems through organic collaboration among various AI agents, moving beyond mere support for some purchasing tasks.
An Emro official noted, 'Enhancing purchasing tasks through Agentic AI is not an option but a necessity to proactively respond to the constantly changing and increasingly complex supply chain risks,' adding, 'Emro will present a new paradigm of supply chain management to corporate clients by integrating various AI agent functions into its purchasing solutions.'