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When grocery stores fail to deliver on consumer expectations of quality, loyalty and sales decrease. If suppliers can’t meet retailers’ specifications, they face costly rejections. On top of these pressures, many companies in the food industry struggle with turnover and are seeking to increase employee efficiency.
iFoodDS offers an innovative solution with Quality Insights for suppliers and distribution centers.
Our food quality management software streamlines the inspection process, quantifies produce quality, and provides full visibility into supplier and grower performance. Our solutions are used by industry retail and distribution leaders such as Ahold Delhaize, Aldi, and Meijer.
Modern quality assurance is complex and fast-paced, with large amounts of data constantly coming in. Manual methods, such as spreadsheets updated by hand, are error-prone and inefficient. They simply can’t provide insights into your suppliers and factors impacting quality.
Quality Insights from iFoodDS is a convenient mobile application that is supported on iOS and Android smartphones and tablets. iFoodDS gives distribution centers and suppliers the tools they need to manage quality control, data collection, and corrective actions. Your data is securely encrypted and stored in the iFoodDS Cloud Services.
Food quality assurance software automates your inspection processes and provides real-time data. This empowers your quality control team to make faster, more strategic decisions.
Key Benefits for Distribution Centers:
Key Benefits for Suppliers:
Quality Insights provides valuable data on a specific point in time: as produce enters the DC. But even with a quality solution in place, sub-standard produce may still end up on store shelves. You need a complete picture of quality over time. This is where our Shelf Life Monitoring Solution can help.
Capture the deterioration of produce over a specific time period and compare this against the shelf life anticipated by your suppliers. By aggregating and analyzing shelf life data, you can build a historical view of produce by variety and growing region. This empowers you to make better sourcing decisions that will ultimately improve freshness and build customer loyalty.
Our Shelf Life Solution can turn your data into insights, enabling you to build a brand based on freshness. By combining inspection data from Quality Insights with shelf life data, you get a comprehensive understanding of how your product holds up over time. Maximize your margins, reduce food waste, increase sales, and delight your customers.
Quality Insights makes it easy to share data with your business partners. This promotes quality at all stages of the supply chain:
Suppliers can see where there are issues and identify the factors affecting quality. This valuable information can be passed on to growers to help them adapt their growing and harvesting practices. Suppliers can also be confident their produce meets their buyers’ specifications so they will have fewer rejections and a better price average.
Distribution centers can efficiently complete rejection reports and spend more time on the floor inspecting. This means they’ll catch more issues and prevent low-quality produce from making it to store shelves. One iFoodDS client was able to cut down rejection reports from 45 minutes to 15 minutes by using Quality Insights in its DCs.
Better quality produce on grocery store shelves leads to satisfied customers. This translates to increased sales and strengthened customer loyalty. 72% of shoppers even choose their grocery store based on the quality of the produce department. (Source: HarvestMark proprietary research)
Ready to transform the quality and freshness of your fruits and vegetables? Reach out to iFoodDS to learn more about Quality Insights or Shelf Life Monitoring.
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