USDA Confirms Mad Cow Disease in California

The headlining store of today’s Supermarket News Daily News Update announced a confirmed case of Mad Cow Disease in a dairy cow in California (full article can be found here: http://bit.ly/IbmQiD).  According to a more detailed article published by Food Safety News (full article can be found here http://bit.ly/Jnz4Cs), the animal never presented a risk to the food supply or human health.  However, that won’t stop shopper’s from worrying. 

For grocery stores, it is always better to be prepared for unexpected recalls in their meat departments.  One way to be sure that you have the necessary recall procedures in place is to have meat traceability applications available to your stores.  ADC’s Meat Grind Traceability Manager provides the necessary reporting and tracing capabilities, so that recalls don’t catch a grocer by surprise.  

The Meat Grind Traceability Manager module (a part of the P-Cubed Production Manager Software) is designed to help grocery stores meet USDA Food Safety and Inspection Services (FSIS) rules and regulations.  The module offers traceability and data-logging protection to companies in the case of a ground meat contamination.

The Meat Grind Traceability Manager software module provides a record for all meat that is ground in a meat department. By scanning and recording the different supplies of ground meat, accurate labels are generated to provide easy traceability and reporting to stores if and when a contamination occurs.

In addition to saving time and money compared to manual paper-based tracking systems, the Meat Grind Management Traceability software allows companies to quickly and accurately respond to recalls when they happen. Centrally logging records of every lug of meat that is ground allows for reports to be pulled with ease and can ensure grocery stores are in compliance with FSIS Directives.

With ADC's Meat Grind Traceability Manager, meat cutters can scan the barcodes on primals to record the name of the supplying establishment(s), supplier lot number(s), production date and name of supplied material(s). This information is embedded into the GS1-128 bar-code that is on each label. Therefore, when a contamination occurs, grocery stores can quickly pull the P-Cubed Grinding Log Report to assess what portion of their meat is part of the recall.

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InterStore is now available in French

As interest for ADC's Fresh Item Management (FIM) software solutions continues to grow throughout the world, its language availability continues to increase.  The architecture of InterStore allows easy translation of the software's screens and reports to any language because the language is not hard coded.  Instead, it is looked up dynamically at program load time from resource files.


"Since InterStore is easily translatable, it allows us to customize the user interface language for each country we enter, including those countries where multiple languages are spoken, allowing each user login to have a different language," stated Steve Loveridge, ADC's CEO.  "This includes the Mandarin languages, as the system fully supports the double-byte character set.  Additionally, InterStore.Net supports grocery/supermarket chains with stores that span mutliple countries, each with different languages and currencies.


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200+ Store Grocery Chain Reports Average 35.6% Shrink Reduction

A 200+ store regional grocery chain in the USA has piloted and is rolling-out ADC's P-Cubed Perishable Production Planning software system and has seen a consequent average 35.6% reduction in shrink in its Deli and Bakery departments.

The Perishable Production Planning module generates demand-based production plans from store-specific sales history, which results in having the optimum amount and variety of fresh foods available at the right time for customers.

"The first success story we saw with the system came from an item that had never been on promotion before" stated the retailer's CIO. "ADC's software forecast that we needed 31 of the item available for sale. While the store was hesitant to produce that quantity, they indeed sold 30. However, that was just the beginning. Once we were producing the optimum quantities of fresh products, we saw a drastic average reduction in our perishable shrink of 35.6% in just two of our fresh departments."

ADC was able to track and report the reduction in shrink by collecting sales movement data at the item-transaction level starting for over a year prior to the P-Cubed implementation. This allowed a direct comparison of same store, same item year on year performance over a 10 week period, contrasting items on the production plan against candidate items yet to be put on production planning. Unit shrink reduced by 25.5% on production plan items but increased by 10.1% on non-production plan items.

"We are very happy to be able to share this client's P-Cubed results," said Steve Loveridge, ADC's CEO. Prospective clients want P-Cubed quantified results, which is why we like to collect fresh item sales history prior to the software being rolled out. Additionally, the fresh-focused forecasting algorithms in P-Cubed perform better with a significant amount of sales history. ADC looks forward to sharing more stories from this client and others who are seeing similar results from the P-Cubed software system."

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