Vallarta Supermarkets has implemented Logile Inc.’s Fresh Item Management suite, helping improve forecasting accuracy and providing real-time insights to better align production with true demand.
As one of the first retailers to adopt Logile’s fresh production technology, the California-based grocer played an instrumental role in shaping and refining the solutions to meet the needs of a high-volume grocery environment in one centralized platform. 
The fully integrated solutions are part of Logile’s Connected Workforce Platform and align fresh food operations with store execution management for a seamless in-store experience.
Automated workflows and real-time data minimize guesswork and help store associates improve execution and customer service.
“Delivering fresh, high-quality products is at the heart of our operations, and we needed a smarter way to manage production and inventory,” said Steve Netherton, Vallarta’s chief information officer and VP of continuous improvement.
“Logile’s technology has helped us modernize our approach, bringing centralization, better structure and visibility to fresh food management. Vallarta has seen a significant reduction in pitch and donation and now has enterprise visibility into performance compliance.
“Our associates can work more efficiently within a single seamless platform to reduce waste and ensure customers always find the fresh items they expect.”
The solutions behind Vallarta’s fresh production transformation include:
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning-based item-level forecasting – Logile’s forecasting is comprehensive, including sellable items, production items sold under the same UPC, ingredients and supplies. Its advanced forecasting models leverage AI and ML to predict demand with accuracy of up to 97 percent by analyzing historical data, seasonality, weather, events and market trends.
- Production planning – Logile produces production plans for all fresh departments based on item-specific production schedules, on-hand inventory and minimum display parameters in conjunction with AI-generated forecasts. Both recipe and yield process production are supported.
- Recipe and nutrition management – Logile’s system records ingredient formulations for all recipes and sub-recipes, with step-by-step production process documentation and associated food safety controls, pictures, videos and training guides. The ability to integrate with the FDC and other nutritional data sources supports the creation of all nutritional labeling content and allergen declarations. Extensive alerts are supported for merchandising, food safety, nutritional content, or gross profit management.
- Grind management – Logile provides systematic capture of all grind production batches and grinder cleaning events to comply with USDA regulations. Mobile device interaction is supported by Logile’s store execution management system.
- Yield management – Logile supports yield-based production where sellable products are created from base ingredients, as seen in meat cutting or fresh-cut fruit and vegetable offerings.
- Scale management – Logile’s enterprise scale management system allows for efficient host updates to all scale and labeling equipment. It automates synchronization of all devices and provides system alerting and process resolution for efficient corporate oversight. Logile supports host integration with all scale and labeling hardware providers.
- Cookbook – This tablet-based app guides users step by step through food production with full recipe visibility, including ingredients, batch sizes, process steps with visuals and nutritional info.
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“Food retailers need more than just a production planning system. They need a holistic, connected approach to fresh food operations,” said Purna Mishra, Logile founder and CEO. “Integrating accurate forecasting and fresh food management into a single, intelligent platform enables effective planning, enhanced visibility and simplified execution.
“Vallarta is a leader in fresh and prepared food innovation, and their pioneering implementation shows how automation and AI-driven insights can help ensure product consistency, quality and profitability across all store locations while earning customer loyalty.”
About Logile
Dallas, Texas-based Logile is a retail operations platform provider, delivering intelligent, AI-powered solutions for forecasting, labor planning, workforce management, inventory, food safety and store execution.