Speakers:
  Mark Smith, CEO & EVP Research and Services 
  Lenny Oddo, Manager, Service Meat for Giant Eagle Inc.
  Ray Goodman, President and COO of Invatron Systems
 
This webcast will review the advancement of information technology that has spawned a new class of operational business intelligence (BI) solutions, specific to fresh food retail called Fresh Item Management (FIM). Designed to provide unparalleled visibility and control of your perishables departments, these operational BI solutions focus on shrink reduction, inventory optimization, and production planning. By effectively employing today’s FIM technology in conjunction with known best practices, fresh retailers can expect to dramatically improve store-by-store performance in all fresh departments.

This webcast will also provide valuable insight from one of the FIM champions in food retail, Giant Eagle's Lenny Oddo. Lenny will provide some much-needed perspective and a first-hand account of a leading food retailer's ongoing experience and success with FIM technology. Lenny will deliver the straight goods on FIM from a retailer perspective and provide you the insight needed.

This is truly a value opportunity for anyone involved with supporting or directly managing fresh retail operations. If you are concerned with fresh inventory optimization, merchandising, and improving profitability in various perishables departments (meat, deli, bakery, seafood) or are involved with providing analytics and BI technologies for retail operations, this webcast is for you. The open Q&A that follows will certainly serve to enhance your experience, assuring that your specific concerns may be addressed. 

Join us for this 60 minute webcast and gain education and insight into employing today's FIM technology in conjunction with known best practices to dramatically improve store-by-store performance in all fresh departments.

This webcast will provide the following:

   - What is Fresh Item Management (FIM), and why it is important?
   - How are analytics and operational BI advancing management of perishables?
   - What types of solutions are designed to support your store and fresh operations needs?
   - How are other retailers advancing their environment to leverage operational BI?
   - What are the benefits of investment in Fresh Item Management?

Sponsored by Invatron Systems

As a part of your registration, you will receive the Ventana Research Newsletter that highlights our most recent research, and occasionally receive invitations to participate in research. In addition your registration information and participation in the webinar will be shared with the sponsor.