Volatile demand due to seasonality and events
Unpredictable peaks cause breakage or leftovers.
Implement flexible forecast that adjusts forecasts according to events and seasonality, avoiding breakages and excess stock.
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The food service and hospitality industry requires maximum flexibility
Demand depends on seasonality, events and accelerated turnover of references. Planning in a connected way avoids breakages, ensures availability in complex logistics networks and allows you to quickly adapt to market variations.
The main challenges facing the food service and hospitality industry
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What does it mean for your company?
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Long-term planned campaigns with variable demand
Campaigns contracted 8 months in advance, but demand varies every week, generating mismatches between planning and real needs.
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Outdated plans and inefficient S&OP
Outdated plans and extensive S&OP meetings without an expanded forecast cause delays in decision making and lack of alignment.
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Difficulty coordinating strategic and tactical decisions
The lack of visibility and adjustment between long-term planning and weekly adjustments prevents coherent decisions between production and purchasing.
How Imperia SCP solves it
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Extended forecast for strategic planning
Forecast extended to 24 months for strategic planning, ensuring a long-term view of demand.
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Frequent automatic recalculation
Frequent automatic recalculation to react weekly to demand variations and unforeseen events.
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Agile alignment between production and purchasing
Ensure coherent and agile decisions between production and purchasing, integrating strategic planning with weekly operations.
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What does it mean for your company?
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Distributor orders unrelated to actual consumption
Distributors order according to internal stock, not according to actual consumption, generating distortions in the supply chain.
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Theoretical forecast that causes overstock
Theoretical forecast causes spikes and overstocks upstream, affecting planning and inventory availability.
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Lack of coordination in the replacement
The absence of a proactive replenishment system prevents adjusting orders to the real demand of strategic customers, increasing returns and excess stock.
How Imperia SCP solves it
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Actual Output Pace Analysis
Analyze real output rhythm and generate adjusted sell-in to align orders with effective demand.
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Proactive replenishment for strategic clients
Suggest proactive replenishment for strategic clients, ensuring availability without generating excess inventory.
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Reduction of returns and excess stock
Reduce returns and excess stock through continuous adjustments and alignment between sell-in and sell-out.
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What does it mean for your company?
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Complex changes in packaging, sauce or size
Changes in packaging, sauce or size require cleaning and CIP adjustments, which generates downtime and delays production.
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Planning that does not consider minutes of change
Planner that ignores minutes of change generates unfeasible orders, making real sequencing and efficiency difficult.
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Delays, overtime and losses
Delays, overtime and losses in the central kitchen due to the lack of adjustment of the production sequence to the actual capacity.
How Imperia SCP solves it
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Realistic Gantt chart
Realistic Gantt chart respecting change times and finite capacity to improve production planning and visibility.
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Blocking infeasible sequences
Block unviable sequences and visualize daily saturation to avoid conflicts in production and reduce overload.
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Reduction of micro-stops
Reduce micro-stops and free up production hours, increasing operational efficiency and making better use of available capacity.
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What does it mean for your company?
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Very short shelf life of perishable products
Products with very short shelf lives: dairy products, sauces, fresh desserts, which makes planning difficult and causes rapid losses.
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Stock that expires and generates health alerts
Stock that expires causes economic losses and health alerts, affecting food safety and operations.
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ESG pressure from food waste
ESG pressure penalizes food waste, increasing the need for responsible inventory management.
How Imperia SCP solves it
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Batch monitoring
Monitor expiration dates per lot to have complete inventory visibility.
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Projection and early warnings
Project inventory depletion and generate early alerts to anticipate losses.
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Planning based on actual stock
Plan production and purchases based on real stock, avoiding waste and optimizing resources.
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Constant product launches and substitutions
Blind forecast causes stockouts or excess stock.
Use an adaptive forecasting system that incorporates new launches and substitutions to maintain availability without generating excess.
Multi-warehouse complexity and stock redistribution
Urgent transfers and overstock due to lack of planning.
Centralize inventory visibility and plan internal transfers to balance stock between warehouses and reduce emergencies.
Market opportunity
Key indicators that offer a clear vision of the strategic weight that this industry has in the current and future global economy.
Global context
Data obtained from Statista*
- 2,52T Market size 2021
- 9,9% CAGR 2021-2028
- 4,43T Forecast Rev 2028
Our solution: Imperia Supply Chain Planning
Connect demand, procurement, and production through a modular cloud platform, designed to adapt to the unique needs of every industry.
Using historical data and advanced calculation models, our demand planning software accurately forecasts your future sales.
Thoroughly analyse your purchasing needs and create a procurement plan tailored to your demand forecast.
With our software, you'll know what and when to produce; make the most of your production lines, avoid bottlenecks, and meet deadlines.
Centralise your S&OP cycle: complete control of milestones, task tracking, and team collaboration.
Integration with all ERPs
100% Cloud, ISO 27001 Certification
Customer reviews
Measurable results
Ecosystem tailored to your needs
2x Faster
Quick implementation
Build your tool step by step
01. Start with the Core Pack
Start with our demand module, the tool that allows you to calculate how much you will sell.
02. Customise with the plugins you need
Add the features that suit your business. Scale at your own pace and expand when you need to, with our plugins.
03. Calculate your price and start now
Once you've added the features you need, get your price with our calculator. And if you have any questions, we'll sort them out for you.
“The demand forecast is very accurate and, when there are deviations, the tool makes it easy to know in which references it occurs to analyze why.” José Delgado, Supply Chain Manager at Agolives
What is the implementation process like?
Implementing the software with Imperia is a quick and straightforward process, starting with the integration of the demand module, and can be complemented with 2 new phases. Incorporating the purchasing module and the production module.
A process with full support from our team, with personalised training and consultancy.
- Systems and data integration, team training, working sessions for adjustments and Go-Live.
- Data integration and configuration of the purchasing plan and MEIO.
- Data parameterisation and configuration of the sequencer to optimise production.
Measurable benefits in a few weeks
+11%
Waste reduction
Minimizes inventory losses due to damage or expiration.
+38%
Inventory reduction
Reduces the amount of products stored, reducing costs and increasing profitability.
+10%
Service level (OTIF)
Improves the number of orders delivered in full and within the established time frame.
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Order Summary:
Supply Chain Planning (10 users included)€850,00
Users:
- Administrators (1)
01€0,00 - Demand Planner (1)
01€0,00 - Supply Planner (0)
00€0,00 - Production Planner (0)
00€0,00 - S&OP Coordinator (1)
01€0,00 - Sales (0)
00€0,00
Total Price:
€850,00
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