Transforming E-Commerce Logistics

**Transforming E-Commerce Logistics: Automating Article Onboarding with Generative AI** As part of Digitale Woche, we are opening our doors for our next on-site meetup! **About the Event 📌** Scaling e-commerce operations requires smart automation. At Zalando, manually classifying new partner products into "Commodity Groups" created a massive bottleneck, costing roughly $0.10 per review with an 84-hour average turnaround. ⏳ To solve this, we architected an AI-powered image and text processing pipeline powered by multimodal generative AI (Gemini 2.5 Flash). Today, 95% of articles are reviewed automatically in seconds, with only 5% requiring manual handling, scaling to 400 reviews per minute while cutting costs by 97%! ⚡ Join us for a look at how we safely transitioned from a manual bottleneck to production-scale AI automation without disrupting live operations. 🤖 **What We Will Cover 🔍** 🧠 Prompt Engineering for Real World Data: How we used "Visual Confirmation" and "Functional Redirects" to eliminate AI hallucinations on article categorization. 🛡️ De-risking AI Deployments: Implementing a parallel "Shadow Mode" to prove accuracy against human benchmarks before giving the AI decision authority. ⚙️ Smart Queue Architectures: Building a two-stage status system to eliminate race conditions between AI processors and human reviewers. 📈 Lessons from Scaling: Practical key takeaways for applying enterprise AI to supply chain and logistics processes. **Who Should Attend? 👥** Tech enthusiasts, software architects, product managers, and leaders looking to move AI projects out of the lab and into high-volume production. 💬 Bring your questions and join the discussion! 🙌 We look forward to seeing you there! Your Zalando Team Group: Zalando Tech Events Dortmund Going: 10 / 20 spots Official listing: https://www.meetup.com/zalando-tech-events-dortmund/events/316156547/