Team: Welch's Fruit Snacks

Team Participants:

  • Jeriel Zhi Hao Goh

  • Jonathan Coach

  • Yiu-Ming Wu

     

  • Aasheer Magendran

  • Désirée Michelle Wilson

  • Diego Lopez

“Our management console displays real-time procurement data from the CA DGS database, which is a database of all the certified small businesses, microbusinesses, women-owned businesses, all the DVBE businesses.”

Problem

California State Universities are struggling to meet the 25% supplier diversity goal for procuring from small and disabled veteran businesses. Their current diverse spending is only 19%, lagging behind other universities like Old Dominion (46%) and George Mason (37%). Additionally, tracking and reporting purchases from diverse suppliers is a manual, time-consuming process that can take weeks.

Technical Solution

The team developed a vendor management console with an integrated AI-powered chatbot. The console displays real-time procurement data from the CA DGS database of certified small, micro, women-owned, and disabled veteran businesses. The chatbot, built with AWS Lambda and Amazon Lex, recommends alternative small businesses to replace larger vendors, helping meet the 25% diversity goal. The solution automates the tracking and reporting process.

Showcase

Presentation RecordingA recording of AI Summer Camp students presenting their project.
SlideshowThe accompanying slides shown in the video.
Source CodeAll of the code and assets developed during the course of the AI Summer Camp.

About the DxHub

The Cal Poly Digital Transformation Hub (DxHub) is a strategic relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is the world’s first cloud innovation center supported by AWS on a University campus. The primary goal of the DxHub is to provide students with real-world problem-solving experiences by immersing them in the application of proven innovation methods in combination with the latest technologies to solve important challenges in the public sector. The challenges being addressed cover a wide variety of topics including homelessness, evidence-based policing, digital literacy, virtual cybersecurity laboratories and many others. The DxHub leverages the deep subject matter expertise of government, education, and non-profit organizations to clearly understand the customers affected by public sector challenges and develop solutions that meet the customer needs.