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The Claussen Pickle brand goes back 150 years ago. Illinoi farmer turns the roots to the Illinois farmer named Claus F. Claussen, which has a cucumber truck that could not be sold. Instead of throwing them, he changed them to pickles.
Making pickles today is a big business. Brand owner Kraft Heinz Process About 60 million Cucumbers are made roughly every year 42 million Claussen’s jar, the best sales of this country cold storage Pickle brand. But creating crispy windows is not always easy.
The cucumbers that change to Claussen Pickles are less than 10 days or less, and they have little error in Craft Heinz. It is most important that Craft Heinz knows that cucumber is entering the Klausen plant. Illinois Various circumference, length and bending can be difficult for planning, and you need to change the production line where spheres are processed.
Recently, Kraft Heinz has integrated artificial intelligence in many aspects of the supply chain to increase efficiency and raise costs. Cucumbers and its Claussen Pickles brand were once one of the biggest beneficiaries of coastal technology.
Bill Durbin, North American logistics and planning officer of Kraft Heinz, discussed the effects of artificial intelligence on the company’s supply chain and closon with food diving. It is one of the best sales consumer brands In each category.
This interview was edited for simplicity and clarity.
Food Dive: How did Craft Heinz reach the point where AI can be implemented in the supply chain?
Bill Dubbin: When we talk about overall company innovation … The supply chain played a very important role in it, and we can continue to develop to increase efficiency and reinvest with marketing and business. You can continue to increase your profits and improve your performance.
In the case of supply chain innovation itself, when we started, it actually became good about the basics, improving the process, identifying the best practices, and then developing the overall. Ours 60 manufacturing facilities, Warehouse and distribution center. So it’s a very passive effort to bring us, but we have seen a lot of advantages if we identify the best way to do something and then standardize him and continue to raise the rods.
North American logistics and planning officer of Bill Durbin, Kraft Heinz,
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But over the past few years, we have actually started this digital trip that has been able to accelerate the change. By utilizing better tools, improving the exceptions of the network, and using things like machine learning, we could induce additional optimization of supply chain so that people could escape passive transactions. , It must be in that daily deal.
When did Craft Heinz began to use AI in cucumbers and what did the idea look like?
D.Bin: We started this about a year ago. Our cucumber supply chain is very short. 10 days until you come to the jar from the field. During a certain time of year, we supply cucumbers in the fields of manufacturing facilities, and in winter, the travel time is longer from a warmer area to the source. In many processes, if you receive a product and not accurately specify it can be buffered with inventory.
There is a way to alleviate this, but the use of such a short supply chain should identify the problem as soon as possible and get the best efficiency so that you can get the sizing correctly. line. This finally gains the highest quality cucumbers and the best quality pickles.
Pickles, circumference, size, size, length, bending of cucumbers, bending of cucumbers, according to all of them, we will work differently within the site. If the quality does not meet the specifications, it cannot be executed.
We brought cucumbers to take pictures of the placement and received feedback about what the quality team was. In the specificationsIt’s like adjusting verification and size. We were training the machine to perform the same work.
As before, over time, we trained other types of defects, the size of different types, and its meaning. And (AI) I learned from himI started to identify these variations. And the operator will verify those things. Now you can identify them yourself.
By doing so, we can immediately solve it so that we can send it in the factory or to get a problem if we are confident about what it is. -You can solve time feedback for suppliers.
Today we are doing this in a factory where cucumbers are the pickles of the jar in which the case is in the case, and how we are we how we are Introduce this technology of the supply chain That’s why cucumbers go to the truck. There we get more time or more response to cooperate with suppliers or identify the size that come to make a reservation for the factory correctly for other sizes.
How is this helpful for Craft Heinz and Chloson?
D.Bin: In pickles, specifically, we have seen that efficiency has increased by 12% because we leave this in place. By creating this process and identifying these things, we could make the pickle routed to the right place to provide us with the best efficiency and to provide feedback to suppliers.
We are getting better quality from the beginning. Through this, we gained more cases when we improved its efficiency, which means better service to customers.
Are you using a similar process for the products used by Kraft Heinz?
D.Bin: We did not put them in place because we started seeing that opportunity. Tomatoes are in size and color. So we see potatoes for fried on Ore Eddie on how to expand this in a tomato and potatoes in other operations. This is actually building this. To be honest, how short the expiration date was, so I needed to be almost bigger for cucumbers.
