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Fresh Idea for Supermarket Industry

Any and every supermarket should carry fresh products that are far from expiring. As with any business, customers generally do not return to a company that they are not entirely satisfied with. And when it comes to satisfaction at a supermarket, freshness and reliability is crucial. United Supermarkets, which operates 47 supermarkets in north and west Texas, has licensed two fresh item management software systems from ADC Inc., a leading provider of management and data communication technology to the supermarket industry, it was announced today. The chain licensed ADC?s P-Cubed Perishable Production Planning system for forecasting and inventory management. It also licensed NutriGen, ADC?s recipe management software, and InterScale, ADC?s scales management software.

ADC?s P-Cubed product offers forecasting and perpetual inventory management for perishables that reduce guesswork and increase employee efficiency, resulting in a significant reduction in shrink and a measurable increase in employee efficiency. NutriGen allows for the central management of recipes, combining such vendor-supplied sub-assemblies as cake base with a store?s own raw materials, such as frosting and decoration. It generates produced item costing, margin and suggested retail pricing with FDA-compliant ingredient and nutrifact data, automatically updating in-store scales and printers throughout the company-wide scales management system.

Sanjaya Nath, United Supermarkets? enterprise architect, said his company looked closely at systems offered by a number of suppliers before deciding on the ADC products. He said United was attracted to the ADC systems? thin-client wireless handheld web-browser and scanner capability at stores with good performance connecting to the central server, and their ability to provide a central repository for fresh item data. Managers can base replenishment orders on accurate forecasts of item sales, inventories and vendor order cycles, and markdowns can be supported at the store level with bar-coded price tags issued from a portable printer.