Fresh Market Manager
Supermarket technology providing superior production planning and inventory management.
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Fresh Market Manager uses hand-held and touch screen devices to
collect detailed data for accurate fresh department analysis.
Benefits
For Store Management:
Assortment planning- profitably respond to customer preferences for variety and selection
Identify "must carry," "fill-in," seasonal and advertised items Compare assortment forecast to budgetary requirements in real-time Select additional store specific items Forecasting- improve sales by anticipating the expected demand
Forecast based on store POS movement or production counts Apply store and item specific business influences for day of week and time of day Easily make adjustments including:
build-to amounts acceptable shrink allowance safety stock Update store base profiles by item and by actual movement Production planning- build produced items efficiently, when they are needed
Base production schedules on available equipment, labor and recipe standards Identify and report conflicts Automatically apply rules authored at corporate Apply time of purchase impact to production schedule Item management- quickly and accurately enter transactions into the system
Quick data entry anywhere in the store with wireless hand-held devices Simplify data entry in the production environment using touch screens Only enter production count exceptions Track throwaway and waste Reporting- see what the business is doing now and make decisions based on current information
Provide standard reports:
sales transactions production schedules Generate alerts for critical business events:
out of stocks over or under production Create continuous improvement with score cards for key business indicators State of the art retail technology- simplify system use with the right tools
Simplify data entry with hand-held and touch screen technology Communicate system alerts of real-time retail opportunities with pagers For Corporate Management:
Accurate category data- control detailed data through well-defined information groupings
Establish recipes and their sub-assemblies Calculate product cost by recipe amount Identify task, skills and equipment needs for each production step Set standard "batch" yields Access nutritional and order of ingredient information Include pictures of finished product in the item record Assortment planning- determine the product mix for the enterprise at any level of detail
Develop plans by store or store group Pre-plan for seasonal items Generate product ordering requirements from finalized store plans Review variance between actual store production and plan Drive increase in production through build-to and allowable shrink levels Production planning- create rules that drive production scheduling to meet your specific needs
Define production rules
shelf life priority time of day best practices Skill and task assignments- apply labor standards for production
Define labor skill requirements Define production tasks Assign labor standards at any level (item to department) by task Category management- use business modeling for optimized profitability
Identify product trends Generate buying efficiency based on aggregate forecast Track real-time status versus budget Conduct gross and net margin analysis Identify best practices Translate category plans into actions