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Canadian food, beverage and foodtech companies are using AI to solve a wide variety of industry challenges, including improving efficiency, pricing analysis, inventory management, quality control, food safety assurance and more.
In this installment, we’re looking at Unilever.
Unilever is a multinational consumer packaged goods company, with numerous food brands including Breyers, Lipton, and Knorr.
Unilever uses AI for a number of reasons, including:
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To increase efficiency and transparency, and analyze consumer data.
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To help identify alternative ingredients that can strengthen the resilience of their supply chain, making formulations more sustainable and cost-efficient, and simplifying them by reducing the number of ingredients without impacting a product’s quality or effectiveness.
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By optimizing design and manufacturing processes through virtual simulations, automated workflows and data-led decision making, to increase efficiency and performance.
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To power next-level innovation, product reformulations, scientific discovery and portfolio simplification.
Unilever has incorporated image capture and artificial intelligence technology within 50,000 of its freezers, helping them manage stock levels, submit orders seamlessly, and alert stores when it’s time to restock.