ADC, Inc., Fresh Item, Recipe and Barcode Printer Scale Management for Grocery Chains

As a manager of Meat and/or Fish your gross profit is important to
your company’s overall fresh department performance and
may be the largest contributor to the fresh bottom line. But there
are many challenges facing Meat and Fish retailing today, including
country of origin/traceability, increased consumer dietary awareness
and the increasing demand for fresh prepared foods to "heat-and-eat" at home.
ADC's focus is on helping you navigate through these challenges to world-class solutions.

A recent survey found that 74% of shoppers select their grocery store entirely on the quality and service of the meat (and produce) departments.

P-Cubed tracks and measures the details for you so that you can focus on your product mix. Know the profit of every item including packaging and labor costs. Know your overall category contribution to profit to provide the freshest possible mix at your best overall price to maximize your customer satisfaction.

Of course many saleable item cuts can be created from one primal which adds complexity requiring tools such as the cut plan a.k.a cutting template. The cut plan is a specification instructing store team members in the transformation of primal to saleable item cuts and can be delivered through printout or any browser, which can include graphics and video clips. Cutting tests can then be instructed and performed against a cut plan to measure efficiency and yield. ADC's P-Cubed software provides these tools and tests, allowing you to compare cutter performance and manage by exception across the chain.

Because P-Cubed holds and understands the many cut templates for a primal, when it looks at demand and forecasts replenishment of the primary saleable items the fallout cuts are minimized by its selection of the best cut plan. This maximizes the profitability of the cut and minimizes the waste from low margin fallouts.

For meat and fish, POS movement is only part of the answer, since it only tells you what's sold. Barcoding scales can provide information on what's been produced into saleable-labeled inventory. ADC's technology brings together these two major item-level inventory movement streams to give you real information on what's happening at the store. Now you can see margins and inventory on a near real-time basis on a computer-based "dashboard" that can alert you to exception conditions.

Of course shrink can happen at each phase of the fresh item life cycle from receiving to sale and some shrink is necessary in limited shelf life fresh meat and fish to try and minimize stock outs - it's a fine balance that automated demand forecasting can more consistently hit. P-Cubed alerts you of where to look for excessive shrink and then guides you to proactively manage these factors.

There are many factors that create fresh department out of stocks such as product expiration, great sales or errors in ordering. P-Cubed defines in each case the root cause of out of stocks allowing management to take the right action to improve availability.

P-Cubed tools are designed to help you build successful production models. Presented in a “dashboard” view, your merchandising team has performance indicators and warning lights to hone your focus on problem stores where key performance indicators are outside your preset limits – Click to drill down into details of each to find the right answer.

ADC’s P-Cubed system delivers key performance measures to help you identify and answer these questions and many more specific to your operation. ADC helps you hone your activity to eliminate your unprofitable items and enhance your winners.

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