AI-Powered Wholesale Trade Transformation: Redesigning Work, Skills and Productivity
JSP261334
Overview
Wholesale trade companies are under pressure to improve productivity, respond faster to customers and suppliers, and build new digital capabilities while managing complex operations and maintaining service quality.
This interactive workshop explores how organizations can move beyond isolated AI experiments by identifying high-value use cases, redesigning workflows and roles, and equipping employees and managers for adoption. Participants will examine practical examples across sales, sourcing, procurement, inventory planning, order management, logistics coordination and corporate functions. Through guided exercises and an AI-enabled workforce diagnostic demonstration, they will learn how to prioritize opportunities, define human and AI decision rights, identify capability gaps and translate ideas into a practical workforce transformation roadmap.
Event Detail
Date | Tuesday, 6 October 2026 |
Time | 9:00am -12:00pm (registration starts from 8:30am) |
Venue | 7 Straits View, Marina One East Tower, Level 12, Singapore 018936 |
Consultant / Organisation | PwC Singapore |
Programme/Agenda
This session will connect business priorities with practical workforce transformation in wholesale trade. PwC will share selected AI-enabled use cases relevant to sales, sourcing, procurement, inventory planning, order management and logistics coordination, then demonstrate how an activity can be assessed for automation, augmentation or continued human ownership.
Participants will work through a guided role-redesign activity, consider responsible AI controls and identify the skills, manager routines and measures needed to sustain adoption.
The workshop will conclude with a practical pathway for moving from opportunity identification to workflow redesign, capability building, implementation and benefits tracking, with SBF providing an overview of EWTP, WDG(JR+) and relevant ecosystem pathways.
Key areas participants will hear about:
- Business-led AI opportunity prioritization for wholesale trade workflows
- Workflow and job redesign across sales, sourcing, procurement, planning and fulfilment, including human and AI decision rights
- Adoption, responsible AI governance, capability building and benefits measurement
Time | Programme / Session | Speaker / Facilitator |
8:30-9:00am | Registration / Welcome | SBF |
9:00-9:15am | EWTP / WDG(JR+) Briefing | SBF |
9:15-10:00am | Why AI adoption in wholesale trade requires workflow and job redesign |
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10:00-10:15am | Tea Break | |
10:15-10:45am | Wholesale trade use cases and practical demonstration |
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10:45-11:30am | Interactive activity: map a wholesale trade AI opportunity and redesign the role | PwC |
11:30am-12:00pm | Q&A / Closing | PwC + SBF |
WHY SHOULD I ATTEND
Key Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn how to:
- Identify wholesale trade activities that are suitable for AI automation or augmentation.
- Translate an AI use case into a redesigned workflow, role and capability requirement.
- Apply practical considerations for responsible adoption, quality review and human oversight.
- Develop initial priorities and actions for a 90-day workforce transformation pathway.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- Business owners, managing directors, partners and senior management
- HR, Human Capital, workforce planning and Learning & Development leaders
- Operations, practice management and quality leaders
- Transformation, innovation, technology, data and digital leads
Tuesday, 6 October 2026 - Tuesday, 6 October 2026 
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
7 Straits View, Marina One East Tower, Level 12, Singapore 018936