Eden: The Tech That’s Bringing Fresher Groceries to You By Parvez Musani Vice President – Supply Chain Technology, Walmart
What’s for dinner tonight?
No matter the answer, there are some givens: It has to taste good, be good for you, and be affordable. But when you’re shopping with limited time, how can you be sure you’re buying the freshest apples, milk that will last, or perfectly ripe bananas?
We think our new intelligent food system called Eden can help. Developed in just six months by our own associates, it is improving the quality and flow of fresh groceries from farm to shelf.
Eden is the result of a friendly competition, or hackathon, among the engineers on our fresh merchandising teams. Our goal was to figure out the best way to keep track of food freshness all the way from the farms to our stores. The winning team determined that building a digital library of food standards was the answer. So they gathered the many chapters of food product specifications set by the USDA, layered on Walmart’s own rigorous product standards, and combined all of this information with more than a million photos to create a freshness algorithm that prioritizes the flow of perishable goods worldwide. ... "
Robert Hetu of Gartner also discusses this here:
Walmart’s Freshness Algorithm; A Great Example of Algorithmic Retailing by Robert Hetu
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