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How Penske Logistics Built an AI Summarization Model in Under 15 Days with Snowflake Cortex

Penske Logistics migrated to Snowflake and leveraged Cortex AI to build a gen AI summarization model in under 15 days, generating company-wide BI reports spanning 5 years in just 15 minutes.

Outcomes

< 15 daysAI Model Build Time
15 minutes (5 years of data)BI Report Generation

Tools & Technologies

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Snowflake Cortex AI
Built-in AI and ML capabilities within the Snowflake Data Cloud

AI Categories

Challenge

On-premises SQL server and mainframe systems could not scale. Manual reporting, crashes during extended use, and a year of unproductive gen AI exploration.

Solution

Migrated to Snowflake on Azure with Cortex AI for LLM-powered performance analysis and automated insight generation within governed platform.

Full Story

Penske Logistics faced reporting limitations with on-premises solutions that could not scale. SQL server and mainframe systems crashed during extended use, restricted leadership visibility, and required manual analysis of performance data. A year of generative AI exploration had not yielded production results.

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Source

SNOWFLAKE
January 2025
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