ADC Announces First Subject Matter Expert Presenters for ReFresh Fresh Food Management Conference

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.

Hills Supermarket Selects ADC's InterScale Scales Manager

ADC announces that Hills Supermarket, a supermarket headquartered in Whiteville, North Carolina, has selected ADC’s InterScale Scales Manager.

Hill’s Supermarket selected InterScale to manage the data being sent to and from their barcode labeling scales, including change batch creation and management, performing network tests and re-loading scales with item price and food safety information.  Additionally, InterScale retrieves labeling totals, to determine what items have been produced in their stores.

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 Hills Supermarket
Otto Hill opened a small grocery store in Whiteville, NC in 1930. The store also sold gasoline and farming supplies and quickly became a local landmark in the Whiteville Community. When Dewey Hill was a young boy he helped his father at the store and it was there he fell in love with the grocery business and the people of Columbus County.  When Dewey returned from a tour of duty with the Navy in 1946 he went back to work at the store. It was from this beginning that Hills Supermarkets was formed. Dewey learned that if you treated people fairly and sold fresh products at a fair price that customers would return time and time again.  To learn more about Hills Supermarkets, please visit www.HillsFoodStores.com.

ADC at Food and Drink IT Summit

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.

ADC at NCR Synergy

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 at FMI Connect

At this year's FMI Connect, we will be in Booth #2604 and demonstrating how InterStore, our integrated Fresh Item Management (FIM) software suite can help to minimize your perishable shrink.  FMI Connect 2015 is June 9-11 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois.

In addition to exhibiting, ADC has a few other ways to interact with us at the show:

• Mark Molter, ADC's Director of Sales, Americas, is presenting in the Fresh & Prepared Pavilion on the topic of "Optimizing Fresh Food Retailing with Technology" on Wednesday, June 10 from 3:15pm-3:45pm.  To learn more, please click here.
• Erik Lieberman of Lieberman PLLC will be conducting two presentations regarding the upcoming FDA Menu Labeling Regulations, including what retailers need to know and how to prepare, and Grind Logs.  The presentations will be on Tuesday, June 9th and Wednesday, June 10th at 1:00pm in our Booth #2604.

Applied Data Corporation Presents at FMI Connect 2015 in the Fresh & Prepared Pavilion

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.

A Retailer in the Midwest Selects ADC’S InterScale Scales Manager and NutriGen Recipe Manager

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.

A Tier-One Grocery Chain Selects and Implements ADC’s Meat Grind Traceability Manager to Over 1,000 Stores

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 Announces Dates for 14th Annual ReFresh Fresh Item Management (FIM) Conference

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. 

"ADC’s P-Cubed In-Store Fresh Production Planner helps Retailers Optimize Fresh Foods and Manage Waste"

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.

Visit ADC in Booth #1304 at NRF 2015!

Be sure to visit ADC in Booth 1304 at the 2015 National Retail Federation (NRF) Show from January 11-13 at the Javits Center in New York City.  You can learn more here  http://bit.ly/1cdVJkH.

"ADC's Recipe for Profitable Fresh Foods Retailing"

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.

InterScale Scales Manager Boosts Retailers’ Margins in Fresh Foods

The second article in conjunction with Retail Time's definitive Guide to Profitable Fresh Foods Retailing, we explore how retailers and food service operators can optimize their fresh food sales and margins with scales management software.

You can read the article here.

ReFresh 2014 Conference Considered a Huge Success

ADC held the 13th annual ReFresh Fresh Item Management (FIM) Conference from September 22-25, 2014 at the Sheraton Sand Key in Clearwater Beach, Florida.  This year’s ReFresh attendees represented sixteen retailers from across the United States and Europe, making it the highest attended conference to date.

The ReFresh agenda included a variety of subject matter expert presenters, FIM software presentations, a retailer presentation and retailer chaired discussions.

For the second year in a row, the conference started with a Welcome Reception on Monday, October 7th, allowing attendees to meet with ADC associates and sponsors prior to the conference starting.

Sessions started on Tuesday, October 8th with a welcome and introductions, followed by an InterStore Overview presentation, which highlighted ADC’s InterStore FIM software suite hierarchy, as well as a look at ADC’s InterScale Scales Manager software system.

Additional FIM software presentations included in-depth looks at Production Planning, Recipe Management, Meat Management and Shrink Management tools.

Other highlights of the agenda included:

• “The Fresh Value Proposition” by Bruce Peterson, founder and president of Peterson Insights.  Bruce’s presentation discussed what factors motivate shoppers in fresh departments, as well as the future role of fresh. 
• “Super Natural Growth: The Rise of the Natural/Gourmet Grocery Segment” by Rod Hawkes, a Senior Extension Associate at Cornell's Food Industry Management Program.  Rod's discussed the rapid growth in the natural/gourmet grocer segment over the past four years, including the dominant players in this market space and the growing competition. 
• “Federal Regulatory Update: What Retailers Need to Know” by Erik R. Lieberman, president of U.S. Food Imports LLC and principal of Lieberman PLLC.  Erik shared the latest information on key regulations impacting retailers, including the proposed ruling on Meat Grind Management and the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
• “Reaching Shoppers at the Meat Case” by Karen Shearer, Strategic Account Director at Midan Marketing.  Karen shared the results of consumer focus groups that were conducted to help identify issues in the meat department, and reach industry-wide solutions aimed to assist shoppers and increase meat sales.
• “The Power of Fresh” by Anne-Marie Roerink, Principal at 210 Analytics.  Anne-Marie discussed trends in the produce and meat departments of supermarkets, as well as key shrink statistics.

Retailer Feedback:

•  “ADC brought together a very informative, creative and fun group of individuals.  Tons of FIM info received and lots of contacts made.  Presentations and guest speakers were all great.”  – Christy Fajerson, Brookshire Grocery Company.
• “I was very impressed with the presenters and breakdown of the ReFresh conference.” – Lon Herget, Associated Food Stores
• “Overall the conference was great.  It was informative and had great subject matter experts.  It was awesome talking with other retailers and I enjoyed all of the great speakers.”

Sponsor Interaction – This year’s ReFresh had 10 industry sponsors, including DBK Concepts/Zebra, Brdata, Datamax-O’Neil, Bizerba, Hobart, Janam, NBI Digi, Rice Lake Retail Solutions, Specialty Printing and Truno.

Applied Data Corporation Receives 2014 Best of Tampa Award for Business Service

ADC has been selected for the 2014 Best of Tampa Award in the Business Services category by the Tampa Award Program.

Each year, the Tampa Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Tampa area a great place to live, work and play.

Since 1989, ADC has developed software solutions for the fresh food departments of grocery and food service chains.  Today, ADC works with 125 supermarket chains, across 11 countries and 10,000 retail outlets.

“We are honored to receive this award, as we continuously work to provide our clients with software solutions that improve efficiencies in their fresh department operations by increasing fresh item sales and reducing perishable shrink, while maximizing their FIM projects return on investment,” said Steve Loveridge, ADC’s CEO.

ADC Announces Subject Matter Expert Speakers for 2014 ReFresh Fresh Item Management Conference

We are pleased to announce that Erik Lieberman, President at U.S. Food Imports and Principal at Lieberman PLLC, Karen Shearer, Strategic Account Director at Midan Marketing and Anne-Marie Roerink, Principal at 210 Analytics are presenting at the 13th annual ReFresh Fresh Item Management (FIM) Conference.

This year’s ReFresh is at the Sheraton Sand Key Resort in Clearwater Beach, Florida from September 22nd-25th.  ReFresh is a leading industry conference for grocery, convenience and food service retailers interested in learning about the newest technologies for managing fresh foods.  To learn more about ReFresh 2014 or to register, click here.

• Erik R. Lieberman is the president of U.S. Food Imports LLC and principal of Lieberman PLLC. Formerly he 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.  During Erik’s presentation on September 24th, attendees will hear the latest information on key regulations impacting retailers, including rules issued under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
• Karen Shearer is the Strategic Account Director at Midan Marketing, a Chicago-based company that provides customized marketing, market research and communication programs.  Karen’s expertise is in the retail meat and agriculture arenas, primarily with the pork industry.  During Karen’s presentation on September 23rd, she will share the results of consumer focus groups that were conducted to help identify issues in the meat department, and reach industry-wide solutions aimed to assist shoppers and increase meat sales.
• Anne-Marie Roerink is a Principal at 210 Analytics, LLC, a marketing research firm based in San Antonio, Texas.  Anne-Marie served as the Director of Research for the Food Marketing Institute for seven years.  In this capacity, she was responsible for developing, implementing and directing all FMI’s research efforts with state-of-the-industry consumer insights and food retailing operational benchmarking.  Anne-Marie’s presentation on September 23rd will highlight shopper trends in supermarkets, specifically in the produce and meat departments.  Additionally, Anne-Marie will be sharing key insights into supermarket shrink.

“The subject matter expert presentations at ReFresh are consistently ranked by attendees as most valuable” said Steve Loveridge, ADC’s CEO.  “These presentations are designed to provide attendees with current facts and trends that are applicable to their everyday operations and strategic direction. We are very excited about this year’s ReFresh subject matter expert lineup.”

For additional information, please contact:
Jamie Simon
Applied Data Corporation
+1.813.849.1818 Ext. 2238www.AppliedDataCorp.com

ADC at the International Retail User Group (IRUG) Conference

ADC will be at the International Retail User Group (IRUG) Conference next week in Orlando, Florida. Be sure to visit us in Booth #27, as well as attend our two presentations.

The 1st is a Super Session titled “Grocery Technology that Will Make or Break the Customer Experience” at 10:45am on 5/19.

Our 2nd is an Elective Session titled “Fresh Food Retail: How to Maintain Profitability through Technology” at 2:45pm on Monday, 5/19.

Learn more here: http://bit.ly/1nNKcy5.

Brookshire Grocery Company Completes Implementation of ADC's P-Cubed In-Store Fresh Production Planner

ADC announces that Brookshire Grocery Company, a 150 store chain based in Tyler, Texas has completed rollout of ADC’s P-Cubed In-Store Fresh Production Planning module in all of their stores.

The P-Cubed In-Store Fresh Production Planning module generates demand-based production plans from store-specific sales forecasts, which results in having the optimum amount and variety of fresh foods available at the right time for customers.  Brookshire Grocery Company implemented the P-Cubed In-Store Fresh Production Planner as a sales building and shrink management tool for their fresh food departments.

“All 150 of our stores are now running production planning in four departments – deli, bakery, chef prepared and produce.  On average, we run around 1,000 production plans per day per department across our 150 stores,” said Jonathan Key, Fresh Item Management Coordinator at Brookshire Grocery Company.  

The P-Cubed In-Store Fresh Production Planner has taken the guesswork out of fresh food production planning.  With the software, Brookshire Grocery Company now has educated in-stock information on availability in their fresh food departments. 

Brookshire Grocery Company implemented the software in phases to enable rigorous training in each store.  ”The first stores to start using the software reported that the production numbers were incredibly accurate.  One store director reported that they have had their best quarter ever, with more sales and less shrink,” continued Jonathan.

Brookshire Grocery Company also tracks how the stores comply with the production plan. “With management oversight and support, we are seeing, on average, a 97% compliance rating across our stores,” Jonathan stated.  

“We are thrilled to hear the results that Brookshire Grocery Company is reporting,” said Steve Loveridge, ADC’s CEO.  “An important success factor to such a new technology initiative is to have store associate support.  Brookshire Grocery Company has put the right steps in place to ensure store associates are using the tools.”

The P-Cubed In-Store Fresh Production Planner is a module within P-Cubed, ADC’s Production Manager system.  P-Cubed is one of three software systems that comprise InterStore, ADC's integrated fresh item management software suite. The other two systems are: InterScale Scales Manager, which hosts data to and from barcode labeling scales in the fresh food departments, and the NutriGen Recipe Manager, which derives the true cost of recipes (including packaging and labor), as well as managing all of the allergen and nutritional facts through their recipes for legally compliant labeling. 

ADC Announces New Developments and Features within InterScale Scales Manager

ADC announces new developments and features within InterScale Scales Manager software system.

The first new feature within InterScale is the System Dashboard that provides users a graphically summarized, drill-down view of business performance and expectations, including monitoring of mission critical events and errors.  Users simply click a graph to drill-down for more details.

“We developed the System Dashboard to help our customers quickly and easily assess the performance and health of their system as soon as they login to InterScale,” said Steve Loveridge, CEO at ADC.  “The System Dashboard is a powerful tool that helps our customers further maximize their FIM investment.”

Another new feature within InterScale is the release of the multi-threading scale communications program that facilitates concurrent communication to a user-definable number of scales, in a user-definable number of stores.

The third new development within InterScale is the release of the Scale Firmware Manager that enables scale administrators to import and organize firmware for all scales that support remote firmware updates, in all of their stores.  Additionally, the Scale Firmware Manager allows users to import new firmware, select a device in which to update firmware, or simply just organize the firmware with distinctive names.

“It is our goal at ADC to provide our customers with an integrated FIM solution that helps address pain points across all fresh departments,” continued Steve.  “We are very pleased to release these new features and developments within InterScale, as each has been developed to maximize the value of our customers’ investment in their ADC FIM software.”

ADC Announces Dates for 13th Annual ReFresh Fresh Item Management (FIM) and User Conference

Tampa, Florida - February 3, 2014 - Applied Data Corporation (ADC), a leading provider of fresh item, recipe management, and scales management software to the grocery retail and food service industries, announces the dates of their annual ReFresh Fresh Item Management (FIM) Conference – September 22-25, 2014 at the Sheraton Sand Key in Clearwater Beach, Florida. ReFresh is a leading industry event for grocery, convenience and food service retailers interested in learning about the newest technologies for managing fresh foods.  The ReFresh conference agenda includes industry expert presentations, retailer experience presentations, themed round-table discussions and networking opportunities. ReFresh attendees come from a variety of roles within food retail, including Information Technology/Information Systems, Directors/Managers, FIM Coordinators, Fresh Department Directors/Managers and Store Operations/Systems. “We are very much looking forward to ReFresh 2014,” said Steve Loveridge, ADC’s CEO.  “ReFresh provides face-time among our customers and other subject matter experts in our fresh foods technology niche to share the latest FIM developments, hear how FIM technologies are being used and discuss ideas for future development.” Recap of ReFresh 2013 ADC hosted the 12th annual ReFresh Conference from October 7-October 10, 2013 at the Sheraton Sand Key Resort in Clearwater Beach, Florida.  ReFresh attendees represented eighteen retailers from across the United States.  Presentations included: “Regulatory Update: Key Issues in Food Safety and Labeling” by Erik Lieberman, Regulatory Counsel at the Food Marketing Institute.  Erik shared upcoming food safety legislation that will affect retailers, including the changes to Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) and the Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA). “Consumer Drivers of Fresh Food Growth” by Sarah Schmansky, Director of Account Services at Nielsen Perishables Group.  Sarah discussed current trends in the fresh food departments, including consumer trends and behavior. "Electronic Grind Log” by Larry Kohl, Director of Food Safety at Delhaize America.  Larry discussed how Delhaize America is implementing and using ADC’s Meat Grind Traceability software, including how the software is better preparing stores for transparent record retention and retrieval.   Retailer Feedback: “Very informative and one of the best conferences I’ve attended!” “Excellent opportunity to understand how other retailers are using ADC’s software.  The insight on how other retailers are doing things is crucial!  Thank you for the opportunity!” “Topics were relevant and timely and presenters were very informative.  Seminars were very motivating and on target.” Sponsor Interaction – This year’s ReFresh had 8 industry sponsors, including Mettler Toledo, Rice Lake Retail Solutions, Specialty Printing, Zebra Technologies, Bizerba, BRdata, Hobart and NBI Digi.  Each sponsor showcased the latest hardware and technology solutions available for fresh food retailers. To learn more about ReFresh 2014, click here.