Products have become commodities. The distributors that win are the ones that deliver a consistently better customer experience—from the first quote to the final invoice.
The bottom line: customer experience is a company-wide responsibility that crosses every function you run.
CEO D.G. Macpherson said Grainger’s AI deployments now fall into two primary categories: internal productivity and customer-facing digital capabilities.
The new capabilities signal how agentic systems may eventually take on larger portions of troubleshooting, quoting, and multi-step service workflows.
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