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As restaurant companies face stagnating sales in a competitive market, the need for operational excellence has never been more urgent. While menu innovation, flexible supply chains, and value pricing are essential, elevating procurement and supply chain practices is crucial for driving sales growth and improving the customer experience. Unfortunately, many operational teams feel constrained by…
Read more »In the latest quarter, only restaurants offering value-priced menus have experienced positive growth in comparable sales. Net sales growth now requires strengthening the value proposition of their offerings. With challenges of rising labor and food costs, and uncertainties related to climate and market risks, the opportunity lies in enhancing agility, streamlining sourcing and supply processes,…
Read more »Effective program execution requires collaboration across different organizations – marketing, demand, supply chain, suppliers, logistics, procurement, and menu management. With real-time collaborative and decision support systems, managers can improve supply chain delivery, and lower costs and risks. Managers, aided by real-time tools, refine decisions as the program evolves. They can also build shared risk reward…
Read more »This year has seen some significant new updates this year and several more are planned. Several of the updates including Tableau update, what-if scenarios using basis driven costing, configurable pricing have been rolled out or are being rolled out. For this issue, we will focus on the vendor-item feature as it enables…
Read more »A customer whose planning process was failing due to data gathering decided to implement API integration. They learnt that API integration has more critical benefits beyond automation such as speed, holistic visibility and new critical insights. And implementing it is much easier and faster than they had assumed.
Read more »This year has seen some significant new updates this year and several more are planned. Several of the updates including Tableau update, what-if scenarios using basis driven costing, configurable pricing have been rolled out or are being rolled out. For this issue, we will focus on the vendor-item feature as it enables…
Read more »As our customers grapple with the fast changing market, we see some common themes. There is renewed interest in digital, this time around today’s needs – automation in procurement / supplier management processes and end-to-end supply visibility and planning.
Read more »The Challenge: The customer uses historical information for their work processes. The lingering practice was to upload the historical information manually. This resulted in several challenges, including inconsistent and out of sync data. Updating data was a long painful manual process that took about 10 man-days every month. The process was causing significant delays in…
Read more »Our Chief Technology Office, Vishy Visweswaran, discussed current supply chain challenges and technology solutions to address them in a PODCAST with Pittsburgh Technology Council. This podcast was recorded as a part of One Mic Stand special series by Pittsburgh Technology Council. Vishy presents a state of supply chain and key challenges in the video and discusses…
Read more »Supply chain events happen on their own schedule … not yours. That’s why we built Real-Time Category Management into the latest SCA Planner update. Real-Time Category Management gives your team the ability to monitor and respond to events as they occur … in real time. In addition, the system notifies the entire category team of updates…
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