Are you ready to harness generative AI (GenAI) and explore its opportunities to boost your e-commerce?
Businesses must adapt to increasingly demanding customers, heightened competition, and emerging technological trends. Among these, generative AI (GenAI) is establishing itself as a transformative force, capable of reshaping the entire e-commerce value chain.
By improving operational efficiency and enriching the customer experience, GenAI addresses concrete, measurable challenges directly tied to your business performance.
Two Areas of Impact
The integration of GenAI in e-commerce revolves around two main pillars:
1. For Your Customers
Large-Scale Personalization
Generative AI can automatically create content, recommendations, or interfaces tailored to each customer profile. It leverages browsing behavior, purchase history, and preferences to deliver unique experiences. In fact, 69% of consumers say they are more likely to buy from a brand that personalizes their experience.
Examples:
This kind of mass personalization boosts conversion rates while reducing marketing costs.
Enhanced Customer Relationship
GenAI-powered chatbots go beyond pre-programmed responses. They understand intent, rephrase questions, learn from past conversations, and adapt to the channel used (website, app, social media). The result:
Engagement and Loyalty
AI enables dynamic personalization of offers, prices, promotions, and incentives. It draws on past purchases, favorite products, average basket value, and even stock availability.
Goals:
2. For Your Organization
Content Generation
Content creation is often resource- and time-intensive. GenAI allows you to automate these tasks with accuracy and scalability.
Common Applications:
Results: time savings, content consistency, and improved SEO performance.
Logistics Optimization and Demand Forecasting
By analyzing stock levels, order history, browsing trends, and external data (events, weather), AI can refine demand forecasting. This leads to:
Marketing Campaign Acceleration
Generative AI can design, test, and optimize entire campaigns in real-time, at scale.
Examples:
This significantly shortens production cycles and improves campaign outcomes.
Cost Reduction
GenAI-driven automation impacts several cost areas:
What About DAM and AI?
In this context, Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions become central. They allow you to centralize, organize, and distribute all media files used in your e-commerce activities: product visuals, videos, logos, banners, technical sheets.
A well-structured DAM brings tangible benefits:
In e-commerce, this translates into faster time-to-market, better presentation quality, and greater commercial agility.
How GenAI Enhances DAM
Generative AI enhances DAM capabilities by automating key tasks:
Concrete example: A product image can be automatically adapted into several formats for social media, newsletters, marketplaces, or product pages — all aligned with your brand guidelines.
AI can also identify top-performing assets and suggest optimized variants, avoiding the need to start from scratch for every campaign.
Why Is This Strategic for Your Business?
A DAM powered by GenAI becomes a high-value automation lever:
For brands managing a large number of products, visuals, or markets, this DAM + AI combination quickly becomes essential.
Before You Begin: Ask the Right Questions
To ensure a successful GenAI project, each use case must be assessed using three essential criteria:
1. Viability
2. Feasibility
3. Trust
A Structured Approach for Measurable Impact
GenAI should not be integrated as an isolated experiment. It must be embedded in a structured roadmap aligned with your business priorities.
Best practices rely on a few key principles:
Integrating GenAI into your e-commerce strategy isn’t just about adopting a new technology — it’s about rethinking how you create value, engage customers, and operate your business.
The benefits are clear: productivity, differentiation, scalability.
Provided you approach it with the right method.
Jérémie Nakache is a Senior Manager at Deloitte Digital with more than a decade of ecommerce experience and a global pedigree from working with the world’s leading brands on an international level. He leads large omnichannel projects and initiatives to create synergy among brick-and-mortar, mobile and Ecommerce channels, with cross-functional teams.
Mélissa Boulariah is a Senior e-commerce consultant at Deloitte Digital. Thanks to her expertise in e-Commerce and Product Management, she supports our clients in designing and implementing high-impact platforms that meet today’s market challenges and bring both commercial and strategic value.
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