Inventory purchasing softwareprovider Thrive Technologies recently announced that salad producer Fresh Express has adopted the Thrive Inventory Replenishment System. Inventory replenishment, also known as stock replenishment, refers to the process of evaluating the current levels of inventory daily versus upcoming demand, in order to calculate how much more to order. Thrive’s Inventory Replenishment software measures its progress toward the client’s inventory goals, which is a functionality that businesses don’t get from their enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
Fresh Express needed a way to take their existing forecasts and evaluate the on-hands at vendor sites and their own production plants to order additional supply as needed; an out-of-stock would halt production which was not an option.
“Fresh Express created the produce category of bagged salads, producing nearly forty million pounds of salad monthly. They use our Inventory Replenishment System to optimally stock and replenish the film used to bag all the Fresh Express salads,” explained Thrive Technologies CEO Rick Morris.
Thrive’s inventory replenishment software is a powerful tool that helps clients manage changing demand and supply variables, putting them in control of their inventory costs and service levels. In addition to helping Fresh Express become more proactive, Thrive also provides the company with analyzed tiered pricing based on volume buys. In addition, Thrive highlights order costs that are above budgeted costs.
“Fresh Express provides price tiers depending on how much film they buy from certain vendors, and our system automatically adjusts the price based on the quantity; which saves them time and prevents errors,” explained Morris. “Our system also stores their budgeted price and highlight the costs and alerts planners when the budget is exceeded.”
For more information on Thrive Technologies, call (770) 222-8599 or visit their website at www.thrivetech.com.
About Fresh Express®
Fresh Express®is the brand leader in Value Added Salads and is dedicated to providing consumers with healthy, convenient ready-to-eat salads, leafy greens, vegetables and fruits. With the invention of its special Keep Crisp® bag in the 1980s, Fresh Express pioneered the retail packaged salad category and was the first to make them available to grocery stores nationwide. Today, Fresh Express fresh salads come in more than 150 different varieties offering exciting new flavors and convenient new ways to meet the daily dietary requirements for both conventional and organic fresh produce. More than 20 million consumers each week enjoy healthy, convenient ready-to-eat Fresh Express salads, spinach, vegetables and juicing greens. For more information, visit www.FreshExpress.com.
About Thrive Technologies
Thrive Technologies is a cloud-based, SaaS (Software as a Service) provider of inventory optimization software which increases inventory profitability for multi-location wholesale distributors, master distributors, and retailers. Their award-winning demand forecasting; inventory replenishment; and inventory optimization software and services interface with all ERP systems.
Thrive increases inventory profitability for wholesalers and master distributors in industries such as automotive parts, pipes / valves / fittings (PVF), HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and several other SKU intensive industry segments. Clients include Williams Distributing, Matco-Norca, LDR Industries, S&F Supplies, General Air Service, Virginia ABC Stores, Keystone Automotive, and Fresh Express. For more information, please visit Thrive Technologies at www.thrivetech.com.
