Schnucks Markets has implemented Logile Inc.’s Fresh Item Management Solutions across its 114-store network, enhancing the efficiency and precision of fresh food operations.
Through the partnership, Schnucks is using automation to refine production forecasting and inventory management, reducing inefficiencies and delivering a seamless in-store experience.
Schnucks has adopted a data-driven and automated approach that eliminates guesswork. By optimizing forecasting, standardizing recipe management and automating compliance tracking, the technology ensures streamlined operations, consistency and superior execution at all locations.
“Logile’s solutions have truly transformed our fresh food operations, providing us with greater control over production planning,” said Kim Anderson, VP of store operations support at St. Louis, Missouri-based Schnucks.
“Digitizing these key processes and integrating them into our daily operations has made a profound difference. We can now make smarter, more informed decisions, offering our customers fresh food at its peak flavor and freshness, while reducing waste and ensuring consistent availability of high-quality products.”
The key solutions driving this transformation include:
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning-based fresh production and ingredient forecasting – Logile’s advanced forecasting models leverage AI and machine learning to predict demand with unparalleled accuracy by analyzing historical data, seasonality, weather, events and market trends. These intelligent models continuously learn and adapt, optimizing inventory management, minimizing stockouts and reducing excess inventory, all while providing real-time insights for more efficient decision making and supply chain management.
- Production planning – Logile’s production planning system offers role-based visibility into sales and production forecasts, utilizing item movement data and on-hand inventory to determine optimal production levels, timings and quantities. This ensures accurate production scheduling, reduces overproduction and helps minimize shrinkage.
- Recipe and nutrition management – The system digitizes recipes and integrates with Food Data Central for precise nutritional labeling. It stores all recipe components, including ingredients, sub-recipes and preparation steps, ensuring compliance with FDA regulations and providing real-time updates for allergens and nutritional content.
- Grind management – Automating grind tracking and integrating with task management ensures compliance with USDA regulations. By capturing supplier details, lot numbers and production dates via barcode scanning, Logile streamlines store-level record-keeping and maintains accurate grind logs.
- Yield management – The solution tracks the breakdown of raw items into sellable cuts, accounting for trimming loss and bone removal. By maintaining cutting tests and yield percentages, it enhances inventory control, optimizes replenishment and guarantees consistent product availability across Schnucks’ stores.
“These production planning and fresh item management solutions integrate seamlessly with Logile’s Connected Workforce Platform, aligning fresh food operations with store execution management to deliver a fully optimized in-store experience,” said Tom Henry, chief data and information officer at Schnucks.
“With these advanced capabilities, Schnucks has improved demand visibility, enhanced forecasting accuracy and ensured our customers receive fresh food at its peak flavor, while minimizing waste and markdowns. By automating core processes, we are ensuring consistency across locations and enabling more efficient store execution for our teammates.”
Purna Mishra, founder and CEO of Logile, noted that fresh food operations require a level of precision that traditional methods can’t achieve.
“Retailers today are seeking technology that not only simplifies execution but also provides actionable, data-driven insights for smarter decision making,” he said. “Schnucks’ success highlights the broader industry shift toward automation and intelligent fresh food management.”
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