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FRESH ITEM MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
Maximise freshness with intuitive food inventory management
Minimise waste and elevate brand reputation by becoming a master of fresh items, through data-driven calculations.
MORE THAN 30 YEARS REVOLUTIONISING AVAILABILITY, INVENTORY & SERVICE LEVELS FOR 1,500+ CUSTOMERS
The trusted partner in fresh item management excellence
KEEP ON TOP OF SHELF-LIVES
Why Slimstock?
Slimstock’s Slim4 solution thrives in complexity, and there’s few more complex retail segments than perishables. Optimise inventory efficiency, reduce waste, and keep customers satisfied with your data-led fresh approach.
- Reduce and write off waste: turn accurate demand into constant availability, without excess.
- Increase turnover and improve margins: reliable availability means maximised sales.
- Optimise service levels in line with business KPIs: set your own parameters and monitor perishable requirements in real-time.
MORE FRESHNESS, LESS SHRINK, BETTER RESULTS
Benefits to help you make fresh your forte
Minimise waste through pinpoint forecasting accuracy
Food, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals with limited shelf-lives are quickly made redundant if overstocked. Accurate demand forecasts help you sidestep that issue as much as possible.
Ensure constant quality and compliance
Perishable goods usually come with safety and regulatory requirements related to their shelf-lives. Improved visibility not only secures availability and prevents overstocking, but keeps you compliant and vigilant to varying characteristics.
Optimise FEFO processes
First-expire, first-out (FEFO) ensures that older stock is used first, and it’s a crucial process when it comes to fresh items. Slim4 optimes supply and inventory to speed up turnover, and to meet sensitive timelines smartly.
Find the perfect balance between availability and excess
Guarantee enough stock to meet known demand, without creating excessive safety stock that becomes more likely to expire before sale.
Promote with precision
Short shelf-life products often require discounts and bundling to sell before expiration. Avoid making this a strategy of panic with forecasting accuracy that can also identify demand peaks for optimised promotions.
Enhance collaboration across the chain
Suppliers and manufacturers need to align on production schedules to avoid expired inventory and lost sales. Integrated planning within Slim4 reduces inefficiencies and empowers collaborative decisions through a single source of truth.
KEY FEATURES OF SLIM4 FRESH ITEM MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
Reliable ordering and better shelf-life control, through a user-friendly tool
Slim4 integrates product shelf-life metrics into inventory projections, ensuring accurate replenishment plans based on each product’s requirements. Historical data, seasonality, and promotions are further factored in to maximise sales opportunities.
Ensure stock is prioritised based on expiration dates, rather than arrival dates. FEFO optimisation prevents unnecessary waste and elevates cost efficiency.
Slim4 food inventory management software dynamically adjusts safety stock levels to balance availability with shelf-life constraints. Prevent excessive stock buildup without risking customer satisfaction.
Automate replenishment with expiration control
Reduce the need to discount fresh items at the last minute. Slim4’s automatic replenishment tool factors in shelf-life considerations to avoid stock accumulation, and maximise availability.
Be proactive through real-time alerts
Work from real-time visibility into the remaining shelf-lives of all stock, to enable proactive decision-making. Custom alerts make this an automatic, rather than a painstaking manual, process.
Maintain audit-ready records across critical sectors
Across food, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals, regulations including BRC, HACCP, and GMP all need to be adhered to. Slim4 not only assures this quality and compliance, but maintains audit-ready records of stock movements, shelf-life use, and waste reduction initiatives.
Solutions aligned to your fresh item management responsibilities
Achieve quality and compliance, to enhance profits and brand reputation
For the C-suite, effective management of fresh items is more than just an operational concern. Accurate, effective management of perishables ensures compliance, availability, profitability, and brand trust.
- Do more than just tick the compliance box. Make it a differentiator.
- Maximise sales opportunities from clear demand forecasts.
- Make your brand synonymous with fresh availability.
Achieve quality and compliance, to enhance profits and brand reputation
Slim4 fresh item software addresses shelf-life challenges through a combination of advanced forecasting, optimised stock rotation, and real-time inventory management. Make operations relating to perishables data-driven, to mitigate their complexity.
- Optimise handling of perishable stock to avoid waste.
- Rotate stock with precision rather than guesswork.
- Automatically factor shelf-lives into critical decisions.
Prioritise and optimise from a clear, connected picture
The requirements of perishables, and especially fresh food, are different to general stock, and carry specific requirements in order to optimise. However, once you’re working with data-driven, end-to-end visibility, you can replenish, prioritise, monitor, and execute with complete accuracy.
- Refine FEFO processes to enhance stock turnover.
- Make supply decisions with all expiration data factored in.
- Avoid waste and overstocking, simultaneously.
Real results from fresh-focused teams
From frustration to efficiency
6M £
Working capital improvement
60%
Reduction in stock write-off
Improved cash flow
"The impact of Slim4 on our business has been immeasurable and surpassed our expectations."
Louise Lyle
Director of Supply Chain