Michael UngarCEO of the Industry 4.0 Club

ChatGPT: Automate Product Sourcing with AI

22 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief presentation, the speaker proposes using ChatGPT as an autonomous agent to streamline product sourcing. Rather than manually selecting a supplier, a user can describe the required specifications of a component—such as a pump with particular performance criteria—and instruct ChatGPT to locate suitable products. The AI would then communicate with the configuration engines or APIs of multiple vendors, querying their capabilities and availability to determine which can meet the stated requirements, effectively automating the search and selection process.

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I would like to just chat my way through a configuration process. And maybe I want to send out an agent. I mean, I don't necessarily know what supplier to get my parts from. I might need a pump with a certain set of requirements, and I will just ask ChatGPT to go out and search for a product with those requirements. And it will have to then interrogate and interact with the configuration engines of the different vendors to find out Can they provide a pump with those capabilities?