ADC announces that Anne-Marie Roerink, Principal at 210 Analytics, and Erik Lieberman, Principal at Lieberman PLLC, are presenting at the 15th annual ReFresh Fresh Item Management (FIM) Conference. This year’s ReFresh is October 3-6, 2016 at the Sheraton Sand Key Resort in Clearwater Beach, Florida.
ReFresh is a multi-day conference for existing and prospective ADC customers, as well as industry partners and subject matter experts. ReFresh is focused on providing attendees with a detailed look at the newest technologies and solutions available for managing fresh foods.
To learn more about ReFresh 2016 or to register, click here. Registration is free for retail attendees.
- Anne-Marie Roerink – Principal, 210 Analytics, LLC – Anne-Marie’s presentation on Wednesday, October 6 will highlight shopper trends in supermarkets, specifically in the meat and produce departments. Anne Marie provides customized research and marketing strategies for clients such as the Food Marketing Institute, National Grocers Association, National Confectioners Association, Retail Industry Leaders Association, and many other food-related businesses. Anne-Marie has developed an excellent perspective on the changing nature of the shopper and the food retailing business today, and the challenge of success tomorrow.
- Erik R. Lieberman – Founding Principal, Lieberman PLLC – Erik’s presentation on October 4th will cover the latest information on key regulations impacting retailers, FDA’s Menu Labeling and the Final Grind Log Rule. Erik has extensive experience on legal matters involving food safety, international trade, food labeling, agriculture, food marketing and the federal legislative process. Formerly Erik served as vice president and chief regulatory counsel at the Food Marketing Institute where he represented the retail supermarket industry and food wholesalers before federal agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration and Department of Agriculture.
The ReFresh agenda also includes customer presentations, retail led roundtable discussions, software update presentations and networking opportunities. For more information, please contact Jamie Simon at +1.813.849.1818 ext. 2238.
ADC announces that Sedano’s Supermarkets, headquartered in Miami, Florida with over 30 stores, has selected ADC’s InterScale Scales Manager software system to integrate with their existing Loc software.
With InterScale, Sedano’s Supermarkets manages the data being sent to and from the barcode labeling scales, printers and kiosks, including change batch creation and management, performing network tests and re-loading scales with item price and food safety information.
The InterScale Scales Manager is one of the three software systems that comprise InterStore, ADC's integrated fresh item management software suite. The other two systems are: the NutriGen Recipe Manager, which centrally manages and analyzes recipes and generates legally compliant ingredient lists, and the P-Cubed Production Manager, which automates, manages and tracks shrink, inventory and production in the fresh departments of grocery stores.
For more information, please contact:
Jamie Simon
Applied Data Corporation
+1.813.849.1818 Ext. 2238
About Sedano’s Supermarkets
Established in Hialeah, Florida in 1962, Sedano’s Supermarkets has grown from a single neighborhood market into the #1 Hispanic retailer in America. Sedano’s founder Armando Guerra, a thriving businessman in his homeland of Cuba, brought with him a bounty of experience that helped establish himself in the U.S – and in 1971, Guerra brought Manuel Herrán on board to help out with the daily operations of his burgeoning business. The rest, as they say, is for the history books. To learn more, visit www.Sedanos.com.
We are happy to announce dates for our 15th annual ReFresh Fresh Item Management (FIM) Conference – October 3-6, 2016 at the Sheraton Sand Key in Clearwater Beach, Florida.
ReFresh is our annual, multi-day conference for existing and prospective customers, as well as industry partners and subject matter experts. ReFresh is focused on providing attendees with a detailed look at the newest technologies and solutions available for managing fresh foods.
Attendees at ReFresh are from a variety of roles within food retail, including Information Technology, Fresh Department Managers, Store Operations, Food Safety Managers and FIM Coordinators.
The ReFresh agenda is a combination of presentations by subject matter experts, retailer presentations, round-table discussions lead by retailers, FIM software presentations and networking opportunities.
To learn more about ReFresh, click here.
ADC announces that Saver’s Cost Plus, a supermarket headquartered in Irving, Texas, has selected ADC’s InterScale Scales Manager software.
With InterScale, Saver’s Cost Plus can now manage all of the data being sent to and from the barcode labeling scales in their fresh food departments, including change batch creation and management, as well as performing network tests and re-loading scales with item price.
The InterScale Scales Manager is one of the three software systems that comprise InterStore, ADC's integrated fresh item management software suite. The other two systems are: the NutriGen Recipe Manager, which centrally manages and analyzes recipes and generates legally compliant ingredient lists, and the P-Cubed Production Manager, which automates, manages and tracks shrink, inventory and production in the fresh departments of grocery stores.
About Saver’s Cost Plus
Saver’s Cost Plus is the best source of Latin American grocery, fresh meat and produce in North Texas. Saver’s Cost Plus is headquartered in Irving, Texas and operates stores in Grand Prairie, Fort Worth and Irving. Learn more at www.Savers-CostPlus.com.
On December 14, 2015, the Food Safety and Inspection service (FSIS) announced it is amending its record keeping regulations to require that all official establishments and retail stores that grind raw beef products for sale maintain detailed records*. The effective date will be June 20, 2016.
The detailed records must include:
- The establishment numbers of establishments supplying material used to prepare each lot of raw ground beef product.
- All supplier lot numbers and production dates.
- The names of the supplied materials, including beef components and any materials carried over from one production lot to the next.
- The date and time each lot of raw ground beef product is produced.
- The date and time when grinding equipment and other related food-contact surfaces are cleaned and sanitized.
Applied Data Corporation (ADC) has been providing retailers with grind traceability solutions for over 5 years with their Meat Grind Traceability Management module, which is an electronic, automated system that captures and records source materials through the meat grind process, providing the information that both retailers and regulatory agencies need to quickly and effectively identify potential source materials that could cause or contribute to an outbreak, at any time.
ADC’s Meat Grind Traceability Management module is installed at a retailer's headquarters or hosted in the cloud and features an easy-to-use browser user interface that enables retailers to quickly implement the software with little investment in additional hardware. The software captures all of the required information from the primal’s barcode with wireless handheld devices.
To learn more about the proposed regulation or ADC’s software solution, please contact our office at +1.813.849.1818 or visit www.AppliedDataCorp.com.
*Read the complete final rule here.
Tampa, Florida - October 6, 2015 - ADC announces that Kum & Go, a 430 store convenience chain headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa, has selected and begun implementation of ADC’s C-Pack, C-Pack+ and Label Print Manager software.
Kum & Go produces a variety of fresh food items in-stores, including breakfast items, sandwiches and pizzas. To promote growth of their fresh food operations, and create efficiencies for associates, the chain looked for alternatives to the paper-based systems they’d been using to manage inventory tracking, forecasting and shrink.
Kum & Go selected ADC’s C-Pack and C-Pack+ software bundles to capture shrink, provide accurate forecasting for fresh food production and manage perpetual and physical inventory. Additionally, C-Pack+ includes ADC’s NutriGen Recipe Manager, enabling Kum & Go to calculate costs, monitor actual margins of products sold and generate nutrition facts from recipes. Ingredient, nutrition facts and allergens are automatically sent to the label printer, ensuring all information in each recipe is also on the label.
“After an extensive, six month pilot in multiple stores running ADC’s software, we realized a net gain in sales greater than similar control stores that were set up to measure the effect of the pilot,” said Greg Tornberg, Vice President of Food Service at Kum & Go. “We also saw a reduction in shrink compared to the control stores and significantly reduced our cost per label.These results gave us the confidence to move forward with a full implementation.”
ADC’s C-Pack and C-Pack+ software is being rolled out to more than 150 stores in 2015 and the roll out will continue through 2016, as Kum & Go’s food service program continues to expand.
“Kum & Go is the first convenience store chain utilizing ADC’s software to improved fresh food sales, while reducing perishable waste,” said Steve Loveridge, CEO at ADC. “We are very pleased with Kum & Go’s results and look forward to working with them as they continue to grow their fresh foods program.”
ADC’s C-Pack and C-Pack+ software bundle are designed to improve fresh department operations for convenience store retailers. C-Pack includes P-Cubed Production Manager and P-Cubed Shrink Manager. C-Pack+ includes P-Cubed Physical Inventory Manager, P-Cubed Perpetual Inventory Manager and the NutriGen Recipe Manager.
For more information, please contact:
Jamie Simon
+1.813.849.1818 Ext. 2238
About Kum & Go
For more than 55 years, Kum & Go has been dedicated to the communities it serves, sharing 10 percent of its annual profits with charitable causes. The fifth-largest, privately held and company-operated convenience store chain in the U.S, Kum & Go is an industry pioneer founded on providing exceptional service and delivering more than what customers expect. Established in Hampton, Iowa in 1959, family-owned Kum & Go has since grown to employ more than 4,700 associates across more than 430 stores and 11 states (Iowa, Arkansas, Colorado, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wyoming). Learn more at www.KumandGo.com.
About Applied Data Corporation (ADC)
Since 1989, Applied Data Corporation (ADC) has specialized in the development of data-management solutions for the supermarket, grocery and fresh-food industries. The InterScale scales management software developed by ADC is a global technology leader for host management of supermarket barcode-printing scales and printers. The InterScale system is a member of ADC's InterStore suite of fresh applications which also includes: NutriGen recipe management and P-Cubed shrink management, fresh inventory management, perishable production planning and demand-driven ordering. InterStore consolidates ADC's lead in the Fresh Item Management (FIM) software market with an integrated fresh software suite to provide greater efficiencies and optimize production in the grocer's fresh-food departments. ADC has over 125 supermarket chains and over 10,000 stores installed in 11 countries. For more information on ADC visit www.AppliedDataCorp.com.
ADC announces David Fikes, Vice President, Consumer/Community Affairs and Communications, at the Food Marketing Institute (FMI), as a confirmed speaker for ADC’s 14th annual ReFresh Fresh Item Management (FIM) Conference, which is September 21st-24th at the Sheraton Sand Key Resort in Clearwater Beach, Florida.
To learn more about ReFresh 2015 or to register, click here.
David’s areas of responsibility at FMI include consumer research, animal welfare issues and communicating the many socially responsible ways food retailers interact with their local community. Prior to his position with FMI, he served as the Director of Communication for the American Frozen Food Institute.
David’s presentation will highlight findings from FMI’s recent U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends Report, conducted by the Hartman Group, including insight into why individual food shoppers make the decisions they do and how their attitudes and piecemeal behaviors translate into large-scale shifts that affect supermarket revenues and growth.
ReFresh is ADC's annual FIM conference that brings together grocery, convenience and food service retailers, industry partners and subject matter experts to discuss and share information on the latest technologies for managing fresh foods.
Look for ADC in Stand #40 at the 2015 Food and Drink IT Summit in Birmingham, United Kingdom at the Motorcycle Museum on July 7th.
Learn more about the Food and Drink IT Summit here.
Look for ADC in Booth #707 at the 2015 NCR Synergy show in Orlando, Florida from June 22-24 at Walt Disney's Swan and Dolphin Hotel.
Learn more about NCR Synergy here http://bit.ly/1Fnwtau.
ADC is pleased to announce that Mark Molter, ADC’s Director of Sales, Americas, will be presenting a “Fresh Bites” presentation in the Fresh and Prepared Pavilion at FMI Connect in Chicago, Illinois.
Mark’s presentation, “Optimizing Fresh Food Retailing with Technology”, outlines the most common challenges fresh food retailers face, including compliance with food safety regulations, such as FDA’s Menu Labeling Regulation and Grind Logs, as well as how to overcome these challenges through the use of fresh item management software, including ADC’s InterStore.
FMI Connect runs from June 9 through June 11 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois. FMI Connect is the annual event where retailers of all kinds, wholesalers, merchandisers, operations, CIOs and CTOs go for ideas, products, partnerships and professional development. Attendees can also visit ADC in their Booth, #2604.
To learn more about FMI Connect, please visit www.FMIConnect.net.
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n the final article in conjunction with Retail Time's definitive Guide to Profitable Fresh Foods Retailing, we discuss how Dansk Supermarked Gruppen (DSG) has implemented ADC’s Fresh Item Management software to boost performance in its fresh foods departments at Føtex supermarkets and Bilka hypermarkets.You can read the article here.
ADC is pleased to announce that Milam’s Markets, a 4 store chain headquartered in Miami, Florida, has selected and implemented ADC’s InterScale Scales Manager.
Milam’s Markets was looking for a centralized scales management solution to work with their Hobart and Mettler Toledo scales, which led to their selection of ADC’s InterScale Scales Manager.
Additionally, ADC provided consulting services to assist Milam’s Markets with organizing their data structure to ensure it would allow for seamless future integrations and implementations of software.
With InterScale, Milam’s Markets can manage all of the data for their barcode labeling scales, including change batch creation and management, performing network tests and re-loading scales with item price and food safety information.
“We’re pleased to see Milam’s Markets successfully install our InterScale Scales Manager in their 4 stores,” said Steve Loveridge, CEO at ADC. “We look forward to working with Milam’s Markets on future Fresh Item Management projects.”
For more information, please contact:
Jamie Simon
+1.813.849.1818
Ext. 2238
About Milam’s Markets
We aren't some superstore that doesn’t have any roots to the community we serve- Milam's Markets is a Florida family owned business that has been employing Florida workers and contributing to our local community since 1984. For more information on Milam's Markets, please visit www.MilamsMarkets.com.
About Applied Data Corporation (ADC)
Since 1989, Applied Data Corporation (ADC) has specialized in the development of data-management solutions for the supermarket, grocery and fresh-food industries. The InterScale scales management software developed by ADC is a global technology leader for host management of supermarket barcode-printing scales and printers. The InterScale system is a member of ADC's InterStore suite of fresh applications which also includes: NutriGen recipe management and P-Cubed shrink management, fresh inventory management, perishable production planning and demand-driven ordering. InterStore consolidates ADC's lead in the Fresh Item Management (FIM) software market with an integrated fresh software suite to provide greater efficiencies and optimize production in the grocer's fresh-food departments. ADC has over 125 supermarket chains and over 10,000 stores installed in 11 countries. For more information on ADC visit www.AppliedDataCorp.com.
ADC announces that a retailer located in the Midwest has selected InterScale Scales Manager and NutriGen Recipe Manager.
The retailer selected InterScale Scales Manager to use with their Hobart scales. Additionally, the retailer selected InterScale to increase accurate scale labeling, provide visibility of scale communication errors and re-loading scales with item price and food safety information.
Once implementation of InterScale is complete, the retailer will begin implementation of NutriGen Recipe Manager for the large variety of in-store prepared food items they offer in store. NutriGen Recipe Manager will provide visibility of all recipes, the final cost of produced items (including packaging and labor), as well as legally compliant nutritional information for all produced items.
“We are pleased to see one of our newest customers moving forward with the implementation of our InterScale Scales Manager software, as they previously attended our ReFresh conference to learn more about our company and our software solutions,” said Steve Loveridge, CEO at ADC. “We look forward to hearing the successes with InterScale and working with them on future FIM projects, including installing our NutriGen Recipe Manager.”
To learn more, click here.
ADC announces that a tier-one grocery chain has selected ADC’s Meat Grind Traceability Manager and implemented the software to over 1,000 stores.
The P-Cubed Meat Grind Traceability Manager provides an electronic traceability record for all meat that is ground in stores, with sanitation records for the meat grinder equipment.
“To automate the traceability of our meat grind process, we installed ADC’s P-Cubed Meat Grind Traceability Manager to replace our existing paper-based meat grind logs,” said the Director of Food Safety at the retailer. “Our primary focus was transparent record retention and retrieval; however, we have also greatly reduced labor for our store associates with ADC’s software.”
With the P-Cubed Meat Grind Traceability Manager, store associates use a wireless handheld scanner to scan the barcodes of supplied meat as it is included in each batch of grind. Traceability of grind content data is retained in a centralized repository at the retailers HQ and is available for inquiry and reporting via PDF or exported to Excel for distribution or further review.
In order to ensure all of our stores were using the new meat grind process as quickly as possible, we set a very aggressive implementation schedule of 150 stores per week,” the Director of Food Safety continued. “Our team then went back in to see how stores were adopting the software and to make sure the new processes were being followed.”
The data collection and reporting solutions meet all current United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) guidelines and best practices for traceability in meat grinding and grind equipment sanitation.
“We are pleased to see how quickly and smoothly this retailer has implemented our P-Cubed Meat Grind Traceability Manager software,” said Steve Loveridge, ADC’s CEO. “Meat grind traceability continues to be a current topic in food safety and we continue to work with regulatory bodies and retail food safety groups to ensure our software continues to help retailers meet and exceed these regulations, in the USA and abroad.”
To learn more, click here.
ADC is excited to announce the announce dates for our 14th annual ReFresh Fresh Item Management (FIM) Conference – September 21-24, 2015 at the Sheraton Sand Key in Clearwater Beach, Florida.
ReFresh is an annual conference held by ADC that brings together grocery, convenience and food service retailers, industry partners and subject matter experts to discuss and share information on the latest technologies for managing fresh foods.
ReFresh attendees represent a range of roles within food retail, including Information Technology, Fresh Department Managers, Store Operations, Food Safety Managers and FIM Coordinators. ReFresh is an excellent opportunity for current and prospective FIM users to discuss and share ideas on technology solutions for fresh food categories.
The ReFresh agenda is developed based on input from ADC’s Retail Advisory Board, current food safety regulations affecting fresh food categories, the latest developments in FIM technologies and feedback from previous conferences. The agenda is a combination of presentations by subject matter experts, retailer presentations, round-table discussions lead by retailers, FIM software presentations and networking opportunities.
To learn more about ReFresh 2015, please click here. To read a recap of ReFresh 2014, please click here.
In the third installment of Retail Time's definitive Guide to Profitable Fresh Foods Retailing, we explore how retailers can best manage fresh foods production, maintain availability, manage markdowns and shrink and cut food waste.
Read the full article here.
In the third installment of Retail Times’s definitive Guide to Profitable Fresh Foods Retailing, we explore how retailers and food service operators can best manage their recipe databases for items prepared in-store and how to comply with forthcoming new EU food labeling regulation.
Read the full article here.
