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What can AI actually do for a trucking company running on IBM i?

Two things today, and they are narrower than the marketing suggests. It can explain undocumented code, and it can read documents.

Answer

Code explanation is the one with immediate value. Tools such as IBM Bob can read the RPG and CL behind a rating routine and describe what it actually does, which is worth more at the start of a modernization project than any feature comparison, because the people who wrote that logic have usually retired. Document extraction is the operational one: Carrier Logistics added an AI bill of lading extraction module to FACTS, its freight management system for asset-based LTL carriers, which reads a scanned bill of lading and creates or updates the shipment automatically. Carrier Logistics does not publish the platform lineage of FACTS, so treat that as evidence of what the category is shipping rather than as an IBM i product claim. What has not broadly shipped inside these IBM i products is AI dispatch or AI route optimization. If a vendor claims either, ask to watch it run against your own loads. The companion analysis at https://ai.as400software.com/library/ai-for-trucking-companies-on-ibm-i/ works through what is shipping versus what is still a demo.

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