Supply Chain Management

Easy from the start 

Supply Chain Management beyond spreadsheets.
Say goodbye to managing your supply chain using outdated spreadsheets and highly manual processes.  e*Restaurant Supply Chain Management will help you organize, manage, automate, and track your complex supply chain.

Managing supply chain and procurement information is complex enough without having to keep spreadsheets and synchronize a myriad of systems.  Product information, bidding, manufacturer contracts, rebate tracking, distribution agreements, freight are just some of the variables Supply Chain Management helps you conquer.

One e*Restaurant client saved over $1 million dollars annually simply by reducing the cost of an ingredient by a penny a pound.  The supply chain is so critical to the success of the business, you have to have the right tools to drive efficiency.  Conversely, supply chain problems can cost an organization millions of dollars annually.

Food Safety Monitoring

Procuring and delivering food is just the beginning.
Food safety is the single most important consideration when evaluating your supply chain business processes.

From farm to fork
Tracing product from the field to the point of sale is critical if you want to have absolute certainty of your supply chain movement.  Using the optional Lightspeed prep and production system raw ingredients can be tracked through the food preparation process and ultimately to the finished product.

Food crisis management
Whether you are faced with an e.coli scare or other food safety crisis you have the confidence of knowing you can react immediately.  Identifying ingredients and their destination as well as any likely remaining stock can be done in seconds.

Supplier Management

Designed for supply chain professionals.
Supply Chain Management never strays from the premise that supply chain professionals need timely information at their fingertips to make informed decisions.

With today’s competitive pressures, optimizing efficiency and capturing unrealized return is an imperative. Use e*Restaurant Supply Chain to control, streamline and maximize supply chain efficiency by: minimizing substitutions and purchases from unapproved suppliers, enforcing contract compliance, enabling end-to-end electronic ordering, gaining visibility to unit level inventory, implementing “pay on receipt,” and removing bull whip effects on the supply chain caused by promotional activity.

Product Information File (PIF) automation
The entire process of manufacturer selection and management has been built a single streamlined work flow.  The Task Navigator, displays every process, input, and alerts notify you to certification dates and renewals.

Powerful Intelligence

See what you need, when you need it.
Turn a sea of data into a wealth of information. The result is a completely configurable user specific view of critical supply chain information.  Now you have the ability to purchase activity, distribution velocity, sales, and other critical business metrics by any time period or hierarchy. All of this can be done centrally over the web for the entire enterprise.  Easy, one click exports of data to spreadsheets and other applications provides the ultimate in user flexibility.

User defined summary screen formats allows management easily filter through relevant information to quickly identify key performance indicators and make informed business decisions.

Contract management
The process of managing supplier contracts and guarantees is cumbersome and highly manual.  With e*Restaurant Supply Chain Management information is automatically available pre-formatted in an easy to use view.

Rebate tracking and contract auditing
With e*Restaurant you no longer have to rely on distributor supplied reports to validate your rebate and contract compliance.  Get paid faster and more accurately. With the contract auditing feature you can instantly pinpoint overcharges anywhere in the supply chain.