Fresh Item Management for Grocers
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New Fresh Management Capabilities in Oracle Cloud

Consumer demand for fresh foods is on the rise, and fresh item management is complex. Effective fresh inventory management helps grocers reduce waste and spoilage, maximize margins, and meet customer expectations. Explore how Oracle Retail cloud extensions available for Oracle Retail Merchandising Foundation Cloud Service can help you centrally manage, control, and optimize your fresh offerings.

Why consider technology that supports effective fresh food inventory management?

Reduce Waste

Companies that have already embraced fresh item management (FIM) solutions have seen dramatic reductions in shrink, higher perishables department sales conversions, and increased customer loyalty. ...

Differentiate Your Business

Technologies that ensure food freshness or that deliver new insights into supply chain efficiencies can give food retailers a massive competitive advantage. (Progressive Grocer)

Reduce Shrink and Inefficiencies

In the United States, unsaleable goods — products that are expired, damaged or discontinued — cost an estimated $15 billion annually. Reducing unsaleable goods by just 1% through process improvemen...

Satisfy Compliance and Regulatory Requirements

FIM provides consistent, accurate, and visible information regarding food safety tracking, reporting, and recall to maintain compliance with government regulations and keep your shoppers safe. (Gro...

A Recipe to Gain Additional Value From Your Merchandising Investment

Oracle Retail offers a complete end-to-end solution for managing fresh products with Merchandising and the Platform as the centerpieces, supporting master data management of ingredients and finished products, ensuring ethical sourcing and production, inventory management, and accurate demand forecasts for all products.

The new fresh management capabilities available for Oracle Retail Merchandising Foundation Cloud Service enable grocers to more efficiently allocate and account for inventory to create compelling fresh food offerings with complete visibility into inventory, waste, production costs, and finished goods demand.

Ingredients Management

Ingredients Management Cloud Extension helps grocers manage the sourcing and procurement of ingredients from within the store to factor in the material cost of those ingredients, inventory implications, and restocking. Capabilities recognize price volatility of the ingredients used to manufacture finished products to maintain margins.

Zero Waste

The Zero Waste Cloud Extension helps grocers proactively manage shelf inventory and monitor products about to expire to reduce waste and lost sales. For example, strawberries in the produce section nearing end of life are flagged to be marked down or to be used in the deli section to produce a parfait, all from easy-to-use mobile applications.