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Accenture and NVIDIA to Team with KION to Optimize Supply Chains with AI

Accenture, NVIDIA, and KION unveil AI-powered digital twins to optimize warehouse operations, boosting efficiency, safety, and supply chain resilience.

Written By: Jordan Smith

Jan 10, 2025

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KION, Accenture, and NVIDIA jointly showcased how clients can define ideal set-ups for new warehouses and continuously enhance existing facilities with Mega, an NVIDIA Omniverse blueprint for large-scale industrial digital twins at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025.

Three companies will bring ‘digital twins’ to warehouses

The companies are building physical AI-powered digital twins with NVIDIA software to improve productivity and the functional design of intelligent warehouses, which operate with automated forklifts, smart cameras, and the latest automation and robotics solutions.

By utilizing both NVIDIA Omniverse and Mega, KION will provide digital twins of warehouses to allow facility operators to design the most efficient and safe warehouse configuration without interrupting operations for testing. This will include optimizing the number of robots, workers, and automation equipment.

The digital twin will provide a testing ground for all aspects of warehouse operations, including facility layouts, robot fleet behavior, and the optimal number of workers and intelligent vehicles.

“Future warehouses will function like massive autonomous robots, orchestrating fleets of robots within them,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “By integrating Omniverse and Mega into their solutions, KION and Accenture can dramatically accelerate the development of industrial AI and autonomy for the world’s distribution and logistics ecosystem.”

Further, the digital twin will simulate and test configurations, while also training the warehouse robots to handle changing conditions like demand, inventory fluctuations, and layout changes.

The digital twin will be integrated with KION’s warehouse management software, enabling companies to assign tasks like moving goods from buffer zones to storage locations to virtual robots. Advanced AI will power the virtual robots, which can plan, execute, and refine these tasks in a continuous loop that simulates and optimizes real-world operations with infinite scenarios.

“Modernizing supply chains to make them more resilient and agile, with real-time flexibility, is the next digital frontier,” said Julie Sweet, chair and CEO of Accenture. “This collaboration with our long-term client KION and partner NVIDIA will break exciting new ground in not only reinventing the warehouse, but also in raising their performance standards with technology, data, and AI, helping our clients operate autonomous, safe supply chains that better serve their customers and consumers, enhance productivity and efficiency, and create new value.”

Going forward, the three partners will work to integrate the digital twin with a fine-tuned vision language model to capture real-time insights from warehouses, reducing the risk of bottlenecks, accidents, and other unforeseen events, pairing cameras, robots, and NVIDIA NIM, a set of services for deployment of foundation models to edge devices in the warehouse.

Further announcements

This partnership between the three companies was one of three announcements Accenture made this week to coincide with CES 2025. The company also released its 2025 Technology Vision report, which publicizes research on how AI will drive new levels of autonomy for businesses and unlock innovation opportunities.

The company also announced Accenture AI Refinery for Industry, a solution containing a collection of 12 industry-specific agent solutions to assist organizations with building and deploying custom AI agents.

Accenture and NVIDIA have made various moves over the past few months to help enterprises scale AI adoption. Read more about how the two companies launched an AI platform to help clients lay the foundation for agentic AI functionality.

Jordan Smith

Jordan Smith is a news writer who has seven years of experience as a journalist, copywriter, podcaster, and copyeditor. He has worked with both written and audio media formats, contributing to IT publications such as MeriTalk, HCLTech, and Channel Insider, and participating in podcasts and panel moderation for IT events.

Accenture and NVIDIA to Team with KION to Optimize Supply Chains with AI

Three companies will bring ‘digital twins’ to warehouses

Further announcements

Jordan Smith

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