Supply Chain Excellence, Bottom-line Results
The ArrowStream Advantages for Restaurant Chains
Agility, innovation and efficiency. These are the fundamentals for competing and winning in the marketplace today. Through our unrivaled Network of over foodservice industry trading partners, ArrowStream technology ingenuity and our proven logistics services is transforming the bottom-line success of today’s Fortune 500 foodservice restaurant chains.
ArrowStream provides a total supply chain management solution that includes a best-in-class software platform as well as comprehensive logistics services.
Our supply chain software, ArrowStream OnDemand, is a highly flexible and scalable solution that molds and adapts to your very unique business needs. Rich in applications designed to aggregate information, automate functions and improve performance management and quality, OnDemand offers:
- Increased supply chain visibility that ensures the continuity of supply and that restaurant chains have the right product in the right place at the right time
- Real-time access to critical supply chain intelligence to integrate the supply chain more effectively—and ultimately for greater profitability—with other key business functions like marketing and operations
To learn more about specific ArrowStream OnDemand modules, click here.
ArrowStream Logistics streamlines transportation processes and integrates transport needs across our Network in order to:
- Expand both individual and collective buying power
- Level product flow, minimizing overtime labor costs
- Reduce carbon footprint due to reduction in moves and mileage
- Achieve greater flexibility and resources to move product quickly
ArrowStream Logistics offerings include:
- Inbound Logistics, which provides innovative management of inbound logistics from manufacturers to distributors, thereby saving restaurant chains between 5-8% in transportation costs, generating generous rebates for clients and their trading partners. In addition to carrier and operations management, the solution includes data collection and validation, freight conversion and shipping analytics.
- Freight Services, which effectively manages dynamic and supplemental transportation needs to support special promotions, last-minute needs and additional special transport requirements.
- DC Sourcing Optimization, which optimizes distributor networks through the rigorous analysis of current locations and partnerships to identify cost reductions and generate ongoing savings.