WHO SHOULD ATTEND REFRESH 2009?

Merchandising, Operations and IT executives, nutritionists, chefs and directors/managers responsible for perishable department supply chain, production management, inventory optimization and profitability. Store operations personnel who manage fresh departments

Operations and Merchandising Decision Makers -- who are interested in the cost and benefit of emerging Fresh Item Management (FIM) systems.

Hands-on Perishable Department Directors -- that need to optimize in-store production to keep their departments competitive and compliant with emerging food safety and consumer wellness marketing.

In-store Systems Professionals -- who need to know the processes, systems hardware and software requirements to implement a FIM initiative.

Enterprise IT Directors -- who are implementing modern systems infrastructure and frameworks in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that can leverage ADC's web-services in an integrated FIM suite.

Business Analysts -- who are responsible for in-store process re-engineering in the labor intensive fresh departments in the typical supermarket. Explore new activity based costing and labor scheduling models inherent in a good FIM solution.

Food Safety Directors & Nutritionists -- who are responsible for recipe management and ensuring the supply chain information pipeline is in place to meet the needs for fresh item quality, safety and freshness.

ADC Business Partners -- that provide enabling hardware, software and services. To get insight into customer requirements and to answer inquiries into their product capabilities.

Perishable Department Management -- who need a way to add more science to their everyday handling of in-store produced fresh items.

Previous ReFresh Conference Retailer Attendees:

DEPARTMENTS INCLUDE:

• MEAT
• SEAFOOD
• BAKERY
• DELI
• PRODUCE
• FLORAL
• DAIRY
• PREPARED FOODS
• COMMISSARY/KITCHEN