{"slug":"reducing-waste-and-transport-costs-with-data-insights","url":"https://findausecase.com/use-cases/reducing-waste-and-transport-costs-with-data-insights","title":"Reducing Waste and Transport Costs with Data Insights","description":"Albert Heijn unified data from over 50 systems onto the Databricks Data + AI Platform to enable accurate sales forecasts across 17,000 products daily across 1,276 stores and 15 warehouses, optimizing logistics, reducing food waste and lowering transport impact.","company":"Albert Heijn","industry":"Retail","aiCapabilities":["Predictive Analytics"],"businessFunctions":["Supply Chain & Logistics"],"technology":["Databricks"],"deployment":"Public Cloud","solutionApproach":"With the Databricks Data + AI Platform, Albert Heijn unifies data from over 50 systems into a single source of truth, enabling accurate sales forecasts across 17,000 products daily across its 1,276 stores and 15 warehouses.","businessValue":"This empowers business units with secure, real-time insights to optimize logistics, reduce waste, and make smarter, data-driven decisions, driving food and cost reduction while lowering transport impact on the environment.","evidence":{"band":"high"},"sourceUrl":"https://www.databricks.com/customers/albert-heijn","dates":{"publishedAt":"2026-09-07T09:01:39.305Z","publishedAtSource":"pipeline","updatedAt":"2026-09-07T09:01:39.305Z"},"license":"Open for reading and citing with a link to https://findausecase.com/use-cases/reducing-waste-and-transport-costs-with-data-insights. Bulk republication requires permission."}