The Power of "Where" and "How": Why GEO Analytics and AI are the New B2B Growth Engine 3 min read ● Silk Team The B2B marketplace has fundamentally changed as we move into the fast-evolving environment of 2026. The era of generic digital catalogs and broad, one-size-fits-all marketing is behind us. Generating revenue today is [...]
Beyond Record Keeping: How AI is Transforming Your ERP Data into a Strategic 3 min read ● Silk Team For decades, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have acted as the “brain” of modern businesses. They track every dollar, pallet, and payroll hour with precision. Yet for many leaders, that brain has felt more like a [...]
Why GEO Intelligence Matters More Than Ever for Multi-Location Distributors 3 min read ● Silk Team You’ve spent decades building a strong local presence. A contractor in Seattle operates with different timelines, terminology, and expectations than a plant manager in Miami—and that local nuance is what has historically set distribution businesses apart, even when managing [...]
From Data to Decisions: Practical Ways Distributors Can Use AI Today 3 min read ● Silk Team For decades, distributors have relied on gut instinct and massive Excel spreadsheets to guide decision-making. While those methods once worked, the realities of global supply chains and the pace of modern B2B commerce have made them increasingly unreliable. [...]
Beyond the Search Bar: How GEO and AI Together Are Reshaping B2B Commerce 3 min read ● Silk Team The digital environment has changed dramatically. Not long ago, the B2B buying journey followed a familiar, linear path: prospects searched Google, clicked through blue links, skimmed vendor websites, and downloaded white papers. As we move into [...]
Choosing the Right LLM Strategy for Your Manufacturing Organization 3 min read ● Silk Team With the growing number of Large Language Model (LLM) options available to manufacturing leaders, the question is no longer if AI should be used—it’s how it should be used responsibly. When the wrong LLM strategy is chosen, organizations often see [...]
How RAG + LLM AI Can Power Smarter Inventory and Demand Forecasting 3 min read ● Silk Team It’s time to rethink inventory management. For years, inventory planning relied heavily on educated guesswork—last year’s spreadsheets, a seasonal adjustment, and a hope that nothing unexpected would disrupt the plan. That approach simply doesn’t hold up in [...]
How RAG + LLM Solutions Deliver Accurate, Reliable AI for Manufacturers 3 min read ● Silk Team For many manufacturers, the promise of artificial intelligence comes with a critical caveat. While Large Language Models (LLMs) are capable of generating impressive volumes of content, in a high-pressure factory environment, being almost correct can be just as [...]
A Beginner’s Guide to RAG for Operations Leaders in Manufacturing 3 min read ● Silk Team In modern manufacturing plants, one of the most persistent—and costly—challenges is the information gap. This is the time lost when employees pause production to search for the information they need to do their jobs correctly. A shift supervisor trying [...]
How LLMs Can Streamline Product Information Management in Manufacturing 3 min read ● Silk Team Product Information Management (PIM) systems are designed to control how product data flows across every stage of a product’s lifecycle. In practice, however, many manufacturers—especially those still managing product data manually—experience PIM as an operational bottleneck. Instead of a single [...]
