Logile Inc. has introduced its Fresh Operations Management suite, a platform designed to help grocers coordinate production, inventory, waste and food safety across fresh departments.
The platform brings together customer demand, labor capacity and cost visibility to align production, inventory, waste control and food safety execution. The goal is to help grocers improve on-shelf availability, reduce shrink and waste, and operate fresh departments with greater consistency.
Fresh departments are among physical retail’s most competitive advantages, driving traffic, basket growth and brand differentiation. However, short freshness windows, fluctuating demand, labor-intensive production and fragmented operational systems make them difficult to manage.
Logile Fresh Operations Management uses a single demand signal to guide production, inventory, waste and food safety execution. As demand shifts throughout the day, the platform adjusts production and staffing in real time.
“Fresh is where retailers win with customers, but it’s also where disconnected decisions create the most operational risk,” said Purna Mishra, founder and CEO of Logile. “By aligning production, labor, inventory and execution to a single demand signal, we give retailers a coordinated way to run fresh operations in real time.”
The suite is built on Logile’s Connected Workforce Platform and is delivered through four integrated solution areas: Demand-Driven Fresh Production, which aligns production planning, recipes, inventory and scale management to customer demand; Fresh Margin and Waste Control, which makes shrink, waste and yield variability visible; Inventory Replenishment, which replaces static ordering with demand-driven decisions; and Food Safety and Fresh Compliance, which embeds compliance and food safety into daily execution.
Vallarta Supermarkets implemented Logile’s Fresh Inventory Management solution to replace fragmented production planning with a demand-driven model. An independent Nucleus Research analysis found the deployment delivered a 1,070 percent ROI and a 15.2-month payback period, with more than $10 million in attributable profit projected within three years.
“Logile’s technology has helped us modernize our approach, bringing centralization, better structure and visibility to fresh food management,” said Steve Netherton, chief information officer and VP of continuous improvement at Vallarta. “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.”
Northgate González Market adopted Logile’s Connected Workforce platform to unify forecasting, labor planning, inventory, fresh production and food safety across its stores, resulting in a 23 percent productivity improvement, a 25 percent reduction in overtime and a 31 percent decrease in full-time employee turnover.
“Our relationship with Logile has been built on trust, innovation and a shared vision for excellence,” said Tom Herman, chief strategy officer at Northgate González Market. “As we continue modernizing our operations, Logile remains a key partner in helping us unify our systems, optimize our labor, and elevate food safety and forecasting.”
Texas-based Logile was founded in 2005 and serves retailers globally.
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