AI @ Nestlé

Nestlé announced cutting 16,000 jobs linked with automation and AI adoption, simultaneously emphasizing AI’s strategic role in optimizing forecasts, recipes, and sustainability efforts.

• CNN: Nestle, world's largest food company, is cutting 16000 jobs amid automation
• CIO: Nestlé makes AI a key ingredient

Broad AI adoption extends to procurement efficiencies, sustainable packaging innovation in partnership with IBM using generative chemical language models, workforce upskilling, and AI for sustainability and product innovation driving $92bn revenue generation.

• Consumer Goods: Nestle fuels growth with AI procurement and consumer feedback
• Nestlé Global: Nestlé and IBM leverage AI and deep tech to unlock new sustainable packaging
• Hart Design: Nestle and IBM use AI to create sustainable packaging

Launch of AI-powered digital twin content creation for brands, announcement of a new deep tech center in Switzerland for robotics and precision tech, and AI use in recipe cost and nutrition optimization.

• Nestlé Global: Nestlé is creating AI-powered digital twins for brands like Purina
• AgFunderNews: Nestlé to open a 'first-of-its-kind' deep tech center in 2026
• Food Navigator: How are food giants using AI?
• Pet Food Processing: Nestlé creates AI digital-twin content platform

A$30m investment to integrate AI and digital capabilities at KitKat factory in Australia marks significant capital deployment toward AI-enhanced manufacturing.

• Global Food Industry News: Nestlé reveals investment in AI at Australian KitKat factory

Strategic integration of AI technology to enhance decision-making and embed intelligence across operational frameworks.

• CliffsNotes: Nestle AI Complete (docx)

Deployment of generative AI tools such as NesGPT, saving employees ~45 minutes weekly, and enhancement of operations via AI-driven use cases.

• HR Grapevine: Nestlé says its GenAI tool saves employees 45 minutes a week
• Emerj Artificial Intelligence Research: Artificial Intelligence at Nestlé - Use Cases

Significant AI-driven transformations including predictive maintenance, AI deployment across business units for consumer value, and climate-resilient coffee production innovations.

• Discovery/Shift: Nestle: Transforming with AI and Predictive Maintenance
• Nestlé USA: Unlocking New Opportunities with Generative AI
• Consumer Goods Technology: Nestlé Uses AI and Data Science to Battle Environmental Challenges in Coffee Production

Nestlé uses AI and data science to address the evolving food system and reduce food loss.

• SIAL Paris: Nestlé uses AI to help drive down the 30% food loss challenge

Exploration of AI-powered personalized nutrition leveraging technology from January AI.

• Athletech News: The Future of Food? Nestlé Explores AI-Powered Personalized Nutrition

Continued pioneering of AI and ML integration in multiple operational areas.

• AI Expert Network: Case Study: Nestlé's Adoption of Artificial Intelligence

AI applied to food manufacturing concept research analyzing consumer data and to rank marketing ads across 15,000 marketers.

• Kitameraki: AI and Technology in Food Manufacturing: How Nestle ...
• The Drum: How Nestlé is using AI to set creative rules for its marketers

Investment in AI and machine learning intensified to improve R&D innovation processes aiming for better product development outcomes.

• Baking Business: Nestlé employing AI, machine learning to improve innovation

Nestlé began adopting AI for product component verification, ensuring quality by checking scoops and components in production.

• SICK Sensor Connection: Artificial intelligence at Nestlé: Innovative process control