Andy Chen·PinnedRecipe for Success: How to Order for Prepped ProduceAfresh builds modern supply chain technology for the challenges of fresh food. Every year, one-third of food produced globally goes to waste. In the United States, 40 percent of food waste occurs at the retail and consumer level. Afresh is working to eliminate this waste at grocery stores. Cut fruit…Machine Learning10 min readMachine Learning10 min read
Afresh Engineering·May 24, 2022My Relationship to Climate ChangeWe all have a personal relationship to climate change. In the face of changes in my own experience of the place I live in, like warmer days and less rain, I remember that our individual actions always have the power to shape the future. For me, part of doing what…Climate Change3 min readClimate Change3 min read
Jeff Kolesky·Jan 10, 2022My First 100 Days at AfreshAfresh is on a mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all. Our first A.I.-powered solution optimizes ordering, forecasting, and store operations for fresh food departments in brick-and-mortar grocers. With our Fresh Operating System, regional and national grocery retailers have placed $1.6 billion in produce orders…5 min read5 min read
Philip Cerles·May 3, 2021What’s so hard about ordering blueberries?Why the perfect blueberry order is more like playing chess than classifying images. — Afresh builds modern supply chain technology for the challenges of fresh food. Every year, one-third of food produced globally goes to waste. In the United States, 40 percent of food waste occurs at the retail and consumer level. Most of this waste occurs in fresh food departments at grocery stores…Supply Chain11 min readSupply Chain11 min read
Afresh Engineering·Apr 14, 2021Accounting for Censored Demand in Sales ForecastingSawyer Birnbaum, Machine Learning Product Manager — At Afresh, our mission is to reduce food waste and make fresh food more accessible by transforming the fresh food supply chain with technology. Every year, one-third of food produced goes to waste, globally. In the United States, 40 percent of all food waste occurs at the retail and consumer…Machine Learning4 min readMachine Learning4 min read
Afresh Engineering·Mar 25, 2021Towards a Sustainable Food Supply Chain Powered by Artificial IntelligenceVolodymyr Kuleshov, Co-Founder and Chief Technologist, Afresh — At Afresh, we are building the next-generation food supply chain powered by AI, reducing waste and making fresh, healthy food accessible to all. Every year, one-third of food produced goes to waste, globally. In the United States, 40 percent of all food waste occurs at the retail and consumer level…Food Waste4 min readFood Waste4 min read
Afresh Engineering·Dec 18, 2020Predicting Demand at Hundreds of Stores with Multi-Task Learning and Good FeaturesHarlan Seymour, Sr. ML and Data Engineer @ Afresh — At Afresh, we are building technology that helps grocers reduce food waste and increase their profitability through better store-level forecasting, ordering, and operations for fresh food. Every year, one-third of food produced goes to waste, globally. In the United States, 40 percent of all food waste occurs at the retail…Big Data4 min readBig Data4 min read