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May 29, 2025
Crisp’s AI-powered Smart Replenishment and vertical AI Agents drive measurable supply chain outcomes, earning top honors from SupplyTech Breakthrough – an annual award program spotlighting innovators transforming global supply chains through technology.
BENTONVILLE, Ark., June 11, 2026 – Crisp, the leading vertical AI retail data company, has been named the recipient of the ‘Demand Forecasting Innovation of the Year’ award in the SupplyTech Breakthrough Awards program, which recognizes standout technology companies and solutions transforming global supply chains.
The award highlights Crisp’s approach to demand forecasting, which combines high-quality retail data, advanced AI models, and automated decision-making to help retailers and suppliers predict demand with greater accuracy and act on those insights in real time.
“Crisp delivers concrete AI outcomes for retail. CPG brands are having to navigate volatile consumer demand and increasingly complex retail relationships. This makes demand planning more consequential than ever. However, with data fragmented across dozens of retail and distributor portals, accurate forecasting is nearly impossible without a unified data foundation to build from,” said Bryan Vaughn, Managing Director of SupplyTech Breakthrough Awards. “Crisp solves this at the data layer first. Crisp helps retailers and consumer brands turn complex commerce data into clear actions that drive sales, profit, and cash by using AI to deliver outcomes, not just insights. We’re awarding Crisp with ‘Demand Forecasting Innovation of the Year.’”
“Crisp delivers concrete AI outcomes for retail. CPG brands are having to navigate volatile consumer demand and increasingly complex retail relationships. This makes demand planning more consequential than ever.”
Bryan Vaughn, Managing Director, SupplyTech Breakthrough Awards
Demand forecasting sits at the center of nearly every supply chain decision – from inventory planning and replenishment to promotions and category management. Yet many organizations still struggle with fragmented data reporting workflows that limit forecast accuracy. Crisp transforms retail data sources into a clean data foundation to analyze supply chain data and surface AI Agent-powered recommendations with speed and accuracy. At the core of Crisp’s approach is its semantic layer technology – which provides a structured framework around retailer and distributor data using industry-specific algorithms and business language definitions. Recognized with a 2025 AI Innovation Award, Crisp’s semantic layer enables teams to query and analyze data sets with natural language, and powers AI Agents that deliver recommendations grounded in trusted retail data and business logic.
Crisp’s Smart Replenishment solution represents AI-powered demand forecasting in action, and has been used by Dollar General to expand automated fresh produce ordering for more than 7,000 store locations. Over the last 12 months, Crisp’s Smart Replenishment influenced more than 45 million item-location ordering decisions, with 99.75% executed without human modification – demonstrating a high level of customer trust in the platform’s forecasting accuracy.
“AI is only as powerful as the data it runs on. Over $15 trillion in goods flow through global supply chains annually, but the data required to optimize this movement remains fragmented, siloed, and underutilized. We are addressing this head-on with our industry-first technology,” said Are Traasdahl, CEO and Co-Founder of Crisp. “Retail organizations leverage our AI-ready data infrastructure to drive real-time decision-making across their vast product portfolios and complex supply chains.”
“Retail organizations leverage our AI-ready data infrastructure to drive real-time decision-making across their vast product portfolios and complex supply chains.”
Are Traasdahl, CEO and Co-Founder of Crisp
Learn more about our intelligent demand forecasting solutions to eliminate waste and boost profits by speaking with our team.