Source proof for Albert Heijn uses Azure OpenAI for demand forecasting and recipe/leftover scanning, targeting over 10% food waste reduction

How Albert Heijn is using Azure OpenAI to reduce food waste and help its customers eat healthy | Microsoft Customer Stories This is the Trace Id: 3bebf6c625d078d78377f9ab8c40…

…ons per day. So, AI is fundamental to doing this process quickly and precisely. We hope to be able to reduce our total food waste by more than 10% thanks to it.” On top of that, work is also being done to reduce waste once the products reac…

…15 million store-item combinations and how much of them we are going to sell. “We do this more than 5 weeks in advance, so we make almost 1 billion predictions per day. So, AI is fundamental to doing this process quickly and precisely. We hope to b…

…making it more enticing for customers to buy items that are nearly out of date. This now saves 250,000 kilos of wasted food per year. Meals, ingredients and recipes tailored for you Beyond these food waste initiat…

How Albert Heijn is using Azure OpenAI to reduce food waste and help its customers eat healthy | Microsoft Customer Stories This is the Trace Id: 3bebf6c625d078d78377f9ab8c40…

…jn PRODUCTS Dynamics 365 Power Automate ORGANIZATION SIZE 1,000-9,999 employees COUNTRY Netherlands BUSINESS NEED Powerful business apps INDUSTRY Nonprofit and IGO Share the story…

…through this at some point in their day.” It’s a challenge that Albert Heijn – the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands – has found several ways to address through technology. From a weekly menu sent…

…food waste is a particularly important one for us,” says Noortje van Genugten. “Our ambition is to reduce our 2016 levels of food waste by 50% by 2030, but with more sales in each store, that isn’t always easy.” To address this, t…

…ste by 50% by 2030, but with more sales in each store, that isn’t always easy.” To address this, the company is applying AI to demand forecasting. “The better we know what we are going to sell, the better we can ensure we brin…

…e creation of two game-changing solutions: Recipe Scanner and Leftover Scanner. The former allows customers to take a picture of a recipe and have its ingredients automatically added to their shopping cart in a matter of seconds. “The Recipe Scanner is really our way to try and bridge the physical world with…

…s for dinner’ question – and especially do it in the healthiest possible way.” “We also have a project called Leftover Scanner coming soon,” adds van Genugten. “The idea is that customers can take a photo of their lefto…

…. For this reason, the two have now partnered up on Albert Heijn’s Gen AI Labs, a start-up dedicated to exploring and experimenting with the use of Generative AI at a rapid pace. “We’ve had a Tech Labs for more than a decade, which we’ve used to experiment…

…g and experimenting with the use of Generative AI at a rapid pace. “We’ve had a Tech Labs for more than a decade, which we’ve used to experiment with all sorts of new technologies,” says Renat…

…making it more enticing for customers to buy items that are nearly out of date. This now saves 250,000 kilos of wasted food per year. Meals, ingredients and recipes tailored for you Beyond these food waste initiat…

…ons per day. So, AI is fundamental to doing this process quickly and precisely. We hope to be able to reduce our total food waste by more than 10% thanks to it.” On top of that, work is also being done to reduce waste once the products reac…

…solutions: Recipe Scanner and Leftover Scanner. The former allows customers to take a picture of a recipe and have its ingredients automatically added to their shopping cart in a matter of seconds. “The Recipe Scanner is really our way to try and bridge…

…ways easy.” To address this, the company is applying AI to demand forecasting. “The better we know what we are going to sell, the better we can ensure we bring just enough and prevent waste,” she says. “To do that, we carry out daily predictions for more than 15 millio…

…ken center stage in Albert Heijn’s innovation projects over the past few years. Using Microsoft Azure OpenAI, AI Vision and Azure Kubernetes Services, the company has been driving transformation at scale across various parts of i…

…ons per day. So, AI is fundamental to doing this process quickly and precisely. We hope to be able to reduce our total food waste by more than 10% thanks to it.” On top of that, work is also being done to reduce waste once the products reac…

…ste by 50% by 2030, but with more sales in each store, that isn’t always easy.” To address this, the company is applying AI to demand forecasting. “The better we know what we are going to sell, the better we can ensure we brin…