Brookshire Grocery Implements NutriGen

Brookshire Grocery Company, a 150+ store chain based in Tyler, Texas has selected and implemented NutriGen, ADC's recipe management software.

Brookshire Grocery Company operates three banners: Brookshire, Super 1 Foods, and FRESH by Brookshire. Their need for a FIM system arose when they decided to open FRESH by Brookshire, a concept store that focuses on natural, organic, chef prepared food options. When FRESH by Brookshire opened in March 2011, they had over 2,500 recipes for in-store produced fresh product.

"The FRESH concept emphasizes the fresh side of the business, but with over 2,500 recipes planned to open the doors, we realized that we needed a centralized software solution to standardize our recipe database," said John D'Anna, Senior Vice President - Chief Information Officer at Brookshire Grocery Company. "Once we implemented NutriGen in our Brookshire's stores, we were given great visibility to our actual recipe cost, which enabled us to quickly address any margin concerns. This project has exceeded our estimated ROI by over 30%."

NutriGen derives the true cost of prepared foods, including packaging and labor costs. NutriGen also manages all of the nutritional facts of the recipe's ingredients and generates saleable item nutritional, allergen and ingredient information for labeling.

"NutriGen allows Brookshire's to standardize their large recipe database and helps ensure consistent, high-quality yet profitable prepared foods by rendering interactive, electronic recipes in their stores," stated Steve Loveridge, ADC's CEO. "Additionally, NutriGen allows Brookshire's to centrally change recipes in the event of a recall or ingredient substitution and quickly disseminate revised food-safety information to their store labeling scales and printers."

NutriGen is one of three software systems that comprise InterStore.Net, 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 P-Cubed Production Manager, which automates, manages and tracks production in the fresh departments of grocery stores.

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FMI 2012

It was great to see so many current and prospective clients at the 2012 FMI Show last week in Dallas.  We wanted to share a few pictures from our booth.  If you missed ADC at FMI, we'll be at the IBM Retail User Conference from May 20-23 in Las Vegas, NV in Booth #59 and at the IDDBA Show from June 10-12 in New Orleans, LA in Booth #5619.
 


ADC's booth ready for the show on Day #1.

Busy Day #1 at FMI 2012.

ADC at FMI 2012.

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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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Dates Announced for ReFresh 2012

Mark your calendar's for the 11^th annual ReFresh Fresh Item Management (FIM) Conference and User Group hosted by ADC - September 10^th - 12^th, 2012 at the Sheraton Sand Key Resort, Clearwater Beach, Florida.

ReFresh has proven to be a key industry event for current and prospective FIM users to share experiences, hear about new technologies, receive industry updates and network with supermarket peers and industry partners.

ReFresh continues to evolve to reflect industry trends and to provide attendees with the most current and relevant information on Fresh Item Management. This year's agenda will include two full days of software update presentations, panel sessions, roundtable discussions, client experience stories and industry updates.

An optional, half day training session is available for all attendees on Wednesday, September 12^th, 2012.

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Visit ADC in Booth #5804 at FMI 2012

Only 46 days until the 2012 FMI Show in Dallas, Texas - will you be there?  ADC will be in booth #5804 and we hope you stop by to see a demo of InterStore.Net.  Be sure to ask us how one of our clients is reporting an average 35% shrink reduction in their bakery and deli departments!  If you want more information on what you can expect from ADC at the show, please click here.

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