RedPrairie Expands its Comprehensive Supply Chain Technology to Support the Grocery Industry
Slotting, Voice Technology and Dock Door Scheduling Capabilities Enable Grocers to Tackle Long-Standing Business Challenges
Waukesha, WI – RedPrairie Corporation, a global leader in supply chain technology solutions that enable business process transformation, today announced its comprehensive supply chain technology solution for the grocery industry. Grocers are under intense pressure to handle multiple inbound orders from many suppliers, high volume piece picking and volatile last-minute inventory movements. They also need to drive out costs to protect consumer pricing and quickly respond to quality control issues. RedPrairie is addressing these and other market demands through its newly expanded suite of integrated solutions.
For years leading grocery wholesalers and retailers have deployed RedPrairie solutions to decrease order cycle times, improve labor productivity and reduce transportation costs. But increased regulatory pressures and intensified competition from mega-retailers have forced them to seek enhanced solutions to further improve efficiencies, visibility, and control. RedPrairie’s expanded suite is addressing those requirements.
The wholesale and retail grocery markets are challenged to find new ways to save pennies per case and improve customer service levels in their logistics operations. For four decades leading grocery companies have taken advantage of reduced cycle times and the substantial savings achieved through RedPrairie’s advanced productivity management solution. RedPrairie’s preferred methods, teamed with the Gagnon engineered labor standards, provide an accurate means to assess employee performance and develop productivity improvement programs.
The majority of grocers’ labor cost is related to high volume pick-ship processes. RedPrairie provides two additional capabilities to help address this challenge, optimized slotting and voice technology. RedPrairie’s slotting capabilities enable optimal picking productivity by compressing pickers’ travel paths and situating high volume items in the most ergonomically ideal positions. By integrating voice-enabled picking capabilities, RedPrairie also affords grocers accurate and efficient hands-free, eyes-free picking to further compress pick cycles.
High inbound order volume from multiple suppliers is another significant challenge for grocers. RedPrairie’s dock door scheduling application helps grocers better handle their transportation and yard processes with synchronized loading schedules and trailer movements at the dock. Integrated appointment scheduling allows grocers to manage changing carrier schedules and shipping volumes, and best schedule their labor workforce. For outbound shipping, RedPrairie’s load building module directs trailer loading to take advantage of space utilization within the truck and achieve proper load balancing and pallet sequencing.
RedPrairie addresses FDA mandates to the grocery industry with best of breed inventory control. This includes capabilities for multi-level holds, catch weight control, shelf life/expiration dates, quarantine, and product traceability for recall purposes. RedPrairie also provides strong environmental control of inventory processes across multiple buildings for frozen, refrigerated and dry product lines.
Tom Kozenski, Vice President Product Marketing at RedPrairie, says, “Although the grocery industry has been a forerunner in utilizing sophisticated supply chain solutions, until now they have not had access to several key applications. RedPrairie has rounded out its robust solution to address the unique, changing needs of this market. We have leveraged our decades of grocery expertise throughout our comprehensive logistics suite of applications, enabling grocery customers to respond to their specific supply chain challenges."
Comments RedPrairie Company Leader John Jazwiec, “RedPrairie has served the leaders in the grocery industry for 40 years. We have now integrated new capabilities to build on this legacy and provide a comprehensive suite to better serve our customers in the grocery industry.”
RedPrairie’s comprehensive, integrated solutions suite for the grocery industry includes: warehouse management; transportation management; advanced labor management; slotting; visibility; performance measurement; and RFID.
About RedPrairie Corporation
RedPrairie is a global leader in technology solutions that enable the transformation and optimization of supply chain networks, driving out costs, improving customer service and creating competitive advantage. The solutions are fully integrated with process management components for real-time visibility, event management, trading partner integration, quality control, and performance measurement. Coupled with RedPrairie’s tactical planning and inventory optimization solutions, RedPrairie provides a true single source platform for supply chain management.
RedPrairie provides industry-tailored solutions for diverse markets, including consumer goods, direct to consumer and traditional retail, food and beverage, high tech / electronics, third party logistics, industrial / wholesale, automotive and service parts, and pharmaceuticals.
For additional information, call 1.877.733.7724, or access www.RedPrairie.com.
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RedPrairie Corporation
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