Grocery: Optimized Supply Chains Deliver Fresh Results

Competing trends toward local food and year-round availability of exotic items make grocery supply chains ever more complex. Add increased regulatory requirements for traceability and increased demand and labeling for organic and non-genetically modified foods, and the need for a well integrated supply chain rapidly becomes critical for any grocer. If you want to capture market share and gain customer loyalty through the provision of the freshest and broadest selections, supply chain optimization is essential to your market position and perceived value.

The typically narrow margins of most grocers can't be forgotten in the drive to quickly deliver the best and freshest products. With increased competition from discount super-retailers, grocers find their margins squeezed ever more. To compete effectively, you need to optimize product movement to increase inventory turns, reduce warehouse lead time and eliminate surplus inventory from your supply chain.

Manhattan Associates' Supply Chain Solutions for Retail offer the tools you need. With reports and visibility to know where each shipment is, where it originated and whether it is delayed, Supply Chain Solutions for Retail gives you the flexibility and information you to protect your perishables and keep your customers happy. For further integration in the food industry, Manhattan also offers Supply Chain Solutions for Food.

Balance Your Produce and Profits

Optimizing your supply chain is as important to us as it is to you. We're the Supply Chain People. Manhattan's SCOPE: Supply Chain Optimization—Planning through Execution solutions bring together all the tools you need to support your reputation for fresh food, great selection and outstanding service while minimizing costs:

• Distribution Management: From your suppliers' loading dock to your customer's front door, streamline your distribution process, deliver faster and reduce costs.
• Transportation Lifecycle Management: Reduce costs, reroute around trouble spots, coordinate deliveries precisely and deliver more, faster, for less money. Connect your transportation network from procurement to delivery.
• Order Lifecycle Management: Manage the order process efficiently from supplier to customer, and even back again, and you save money.
• Inventory Optimization: Avoid rush charges, express delivery fees, excess inventory and unhappy customers with sophisticated inventory optimization capability.
• Planning and Forecasting: Anticipate demand—and respond quickly when it changes. Accurately predict inventory requirements for promotions, seasons or store clusters to increase sales, minimize working capital demands and keep customers happy.