{"id":72797,"date":"2025-08-21T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/?p=72797"},"modified":"2025-08-21T14:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:04:45","slug":"agentforce-for-manufacturing-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/uk\/news\/stories\/agentforce-for-manufacturing-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturers Gain New AI Workforce: Salesforce\u2019s Agentforce for Manufacturing Optimizes Production, Boosts Sales, and Cuts Downtime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-style-shadow-box is-style-takeaways\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-471ecb11ca02c2e7ea813f9dd3857484\" id=\"h-key-takeaways\">Key Takeaways<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Agentforce for Manufacturing offers prebuilt, role-based AI agent templates to optimize operations, support sales teams, and enhance service&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Agentforce leverages industry-specific data, workflows, and policies to deliver contextually aware digital labor that reduces administrative burdens&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Salesforce customers like JPW Industries are using Agentforce to cut processing times and build differentiated customer experiences<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, Salesforce launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/uk\/manufacturing\/artificial-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Agentforce for Manufacturing<\/a>, helping manufacturers instantly deploy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/uk\/agentforce\/ai-agents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AI agents<\/a> that assist employees and customers with everything from routine inquiries to complex operations so human teams are free to focus on the jobs only they can do. These <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/uk\/manufacturing\/artificial-intelligence\/ai-agents-for-manufacturing\/?d=cta-body-promo-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AI agents in manufacturing<\/a> work alongside employees to help them with tasks like intelligently monitoring fluctuations in demand, streamlining inventory, uncovering real-time sales opportunities, optimizing incentive programs, minimizing asset downtime, and eliminating technician administrative load.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-why-it-s-important-nbsp\">Why it\u2019s important:&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Facing unprecedented pressures from volatile markets, fractured supply chains, and a widening labor skills gap, manufacturers are at a critical inflection point. Adding to these challenges, 70% of manufacturers are still <a href=\"https:\/\/manufacturingleadershipcouncil.com\/seventy-percent-of-manufacturers-still-enter-data-manually-2-37141\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">constrained by manual data <\/a>entry; service technicians are wasting nearly an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/news\/stories\/field-service-agentic-ai-transformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">entire workday a week<\/a> on administrative tasks; and almost 2 million jobs <a href=\"https:\/\/themanufacturinginstitute.org\/manufacturers-need-as-many-as-3-8-million-new-employees-by-2033\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">are expected to be unfilled<\/a> in the industry by 2033. Manufacturing leaders are turning to AI as the solution to augment their human workforce, with <a href=\"https:\/\/nam.org\/ais-rising-power-in-manufacturing-spurs-call-for-smarter-ai-policy-solutions-34092\/?stream=series-press-releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">80%<\/a> saying AI is now essential to growing or maintaining their business.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-it-works-nbsp\">How it works:&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Agentforce for Manufacturing brings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/uk\/agentforce\/what-is-agentic-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">agentic AI<\/a> to Salesforce apps like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/uk\/manufacturing\/cloud\/?d=cta-body-promo-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Manufacturing Cloud<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/uk\/service\/field-service-management\/?d=cta-body-promo-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Field Service<\/a>, drawing on rich customer data and external knowledge to automate complex processes. Agentforce for Manufacturing helps organizations, ranging from original equipment manufacturers to industrial chemical producers, to deploy AI agents that understand their industry-specific data, apps, and processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agentforce helps teams move faster and serve smarter \u2014 whether it\u2019s answering questions, predicting demand, or solving issues in real time. Built on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/uk\/data\/?d=cta-body-promo-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Data Cloud<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/uk\/agentforce\/what-is-a-reasoning-engine\/atlas\/?d=cta-body-promo-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Atlas Reasoning Engine<\/a>, it pulls live data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/blog\/what-is-erp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ERPs<\/a>, field knowledge, asset IoT systems, and even websites \u2014 so AI agents can take action instantly and respond in natural language.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The customer perspective:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cIt used to take 16 to 24 hours for us to process a manual order. Now with Agentforce, we&#8217;ve reduced that time to less than an hour. AI agents have also helped us reduce case resolution time by almost 40% despite us taking on a 15% increase in workload.&#8221;<strong> \u2013 Terri Eshleman, VP, Customer Experience and Direct Sales, JPW Industries&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>It used to take 16 to 24 hours for us to process a manual order. Now with Agentforce, we&#8217;ve reduced that time to less than an hour.<\/p>\n<cite><strong>Terri Eshleman, VP, Customer Experience and Direct Sales, JPW Industries&nbsp;<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>With Agentforce for Manufacturing, organizations can leverage the out-of-the-box agent templates that provide premade topics (what the agent\u2019s job is) and actions (what tasks the agent can perform) that are specifically designed for the industry. These topics and actions can be quickly deployed and adapted for every employee, department, and organizational process, saving development time, increasing efficiency, and improving productivity for manufacturing workers. New prebuilt agent templates available today \u2014 as a part of Agentforce for Manufacturing \u2014 enable manufacturers to:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/uk\/agentforce\/use-cases\/manufacturing\/sales-agreement-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Match asset production to changing consumer demand<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong> Assist sales and operations employees by providing them with a digital worker that can monitor and alert them to notable deviations in build plans based on planned and actual product sales. Based on these deviations, an agent can automatically schedule an onsite visit with proposed talking points for the account team, helping to ensure better production alignment and improved resource allocation.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Simplify inventory management and identify upselling opportunities<\/strong>: Help sales and service employees tap digital workers to quickly search for inventory on their behalf, as they\u2019re speaking with customers. Agentforce can also automatically request inventory to be replenished across distributor locations based on customer needs. This gives businesses the ability to upsell or cross-sell with recommended accessories or improve sales for underperforming inventory in real time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Better manage incentive programs:<\/strong> Enable product teams or rebate program administrators with digital labor that helps them better manage incentive programs by providing clear insights and feedback into program performance, payouts, and the bottom line. This allows channel sales teams to easily identify underperforming incentive programs while helping them focus on the incentives that materially improve profits.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/uk\/agentforce\/use-cases\/manufacturing\/proactive-maintenance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Reduce asset downtime and technician administrative burden<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong> Service representatives or fleet managers can get support from a digital worker that can proactively identify asset issues that require maintenance or take action like creating repair quotes, drafting work orders, and creating email summaries with maintenance estimates. Now, an agent can warn customers and service teams of issues before they happen while automating time-consuming administrative tasks, helping to ensure that a vehicle or asset is never out of service and expected revenue isn\u2019t compromised.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Salesforce perspective:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cManufacturing companies are at a breaking point, struggling with labor shortages, supply chain disruption, and economic pressure,\u201d<strong> said Achyut Jajoo, SVP and GM of Manufacturing for Automotive and Consumer Goods at Salesforce<\/strong>. \u201cThey don&#8217;t need theoretical AI; they need digital agents that can start generating value on day one. We\u2019re delivering that with out-of-the-box agents that understand their specific challenges \u2013 from preventing asset downtime to aligning sales plans and operations \u2013 and immediately work alongside their teams to drive results.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Manufacturing companies can also benefit from new innovations that help field service technicians to:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Schedule appointments autonomously:<\/strong> Customers can easily book, reschedule, or cancel service appointments in natural language through an AI agent that autonomously handles everything from job understanding to technician matching and final booking.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Resolve schedule gaps: <\/strong>An AI agent can help dispatchers optimize scheduling by recommending the best appointments to fill a gap in the schedule based on data points, like job duration, available parts, and technician skills, then automatically schedule it.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Wrap up paperwork faster: <\/strong>Technicians can ask an AI agent to draft a comprehensive report of the work completed at a jobsite and automatically save it to the correct work order.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Proactively schedule maintenance appointments: <\/strong>Through a new feature announced today, field service teams can deploy an AI agent that can autonomously reach out to customers and schedule service appointments based on upcoming maintenance plan dates \u2014 all without human involvement. This helps to ensure critical assets stay operational and well maintained while freeing up dispatchers from time-consuming scheduling.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Salesforce perspective:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cField service teams are the unsung heroes of asset-intensive industries \u2014 responsible for keeping the world\u2019s factories running, vehicles moving, and infrastructure humming,\u201d <strong>said Taksina Eammano, EVP and GM of Field Service at Salesforce<\/strong>. \u201cBut these teams are being stretched thinner than ever, and time spent on admin tasks is leading to burnout. These new Agentforce innovations give dispatchers, technicians, and asset managers an intelligent partner that works alongside them \u2014 identifying issues faster, scheduling smarter, and resolving problems before they become disruptions. This is how we help service teams not just keep up but lead the charge into a more resilient, AI-powered future.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-why-it-s-unique-nbsp\">Why it\u2019s unique:&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike other solutions, Agentforce for Manufacturing provides:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>A faster way to deploy agents with prebuilt templates<\/strong>: We\u2019ve developed prebuilt templates, topics, and actions focused on transforming the highest-impact areas of manufacturing businesses \u2014 including sales, service, and inventory \u2014 to facilitate high ROI. This allows businesses\u2019 most valuable resource \u2014 their overburdened employees \u2014 to focus on building experiences that drastically differentiate their business, not on industry-standard processes.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Relevant, accurate results that speak the industry\u2019s language<\/strong>: Agentforce for Manufacturing is rooted in industry data models, apps, and processes. This allows the Atlas Reasoning Engine \u2014 which is how Agentforce understands, decides, and acts autonomously to provide trusted, accurate answers \u2014 to more precisely take action within the context of industry-specific processes and customers\u2019 terminology.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Trust and guardrails, out of the box<\/strong>: Agentforce for Manufacturing contains powerful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/platform\/low-code-development-platform\/what-is-low-code\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">low-code<\/a> guardrails and security tools designed to keep data secure, prevent abuse, and reduce hallucinated and biased responses. 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