Retailers have more tools at their disposal than ever before to help ensure their shoppers’ safety. Supply chain compliance management has long been a term that strikes dread into grocers, imparting images of stacks of paperwork coupled with the nagging fear of a preventable foodborne-illness outbreak.
Tightening regulations have introduced loftier compliance burdens to global supply chains, made even more complex and challenging as companies do business with thousands of vendors across borders. This is true for any industry, but perhaps even more so in the food retail space, where regulations can be as much about public health and safety as they are about money laundering and fraud.
Properly integrated, the right warehouse and inventory management systems can help drive down out-of-stocks. The average supermarket has tens of thousands of SKUs. But shoppers are most likely to remember the ones that aren’t there. Out-of-stoc...
Nugget Market is using ReposiTrak’s Compliance & Risk Management Solution to completely automate compliance documentation at corporate, facility and item levels, and to streamline the retailer’s supplier approval process, eliminating tediou...
Even after the introduction of the historic Food Safety Modernization Act in 2011, food recalls continue to wreak havoc on the food supply chain. Experts weigh-in on the law’s effectiveness and offer solutions for America’s food safety problem.
Kings Food Markets has implemented a new advanced commerce platform that optimizes inventory, lowers costs and increases sales. Repositrak‘s scan-based trading (SBT) solution, from Salt Lake City-based Park City Group, gives the upscale grocer ...
At the turn of the millennium, the retail industry was aglow with technological and operational possibilities.
The internet was seen as a platform for both selling things and making merchandising and fulfillment processes more efficient. Data processing power and storage capacity was growing dramatically, an improvement that cut analysis time from weeks down to hours. Additionally, data communication speeds were accelerating so quickly that frontline associates now had access to nearly realtime insights.
Associated Wholesale Grocers Inc. (AWG) has chosen ReposiTrak for its supplier management compliance efforts. ReposiTrak helps manage regulatory, financial and brand risk associated with issues of safety in the supply chain through a platform that re...
Information may not be able to change the course of mighty rivers or bend steel in its bare hands, but one could say data today is faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and even able to leap tall buildings in a single bound....
An effective supplier approval program can help companies decrease their risk and liability with vendors. Six years ago, following FSMA being signed into law, Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. (AWG) knew it had to implement a supplier approval progr...
