ADVISORY/Demantra and Deloitte Consulting Address Quick Service Restaurants' Critical Challenge of Balancing Resources and Demand.News Editors/Business Editors/Assignment Desks ADVISORY...for Tuesday (Nov. 18) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
WHO: Robert Howard, Principal, Deloitte Consulting
Dr. Jim Langabeer, Executive Vice President, Demantra
WHAT: Demantra webinar: "Building the Demand-Driven Quick Service
Restaurant"
WHEN: Tuesday, November 18, 2003
11:00 a.m. EDT
INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION:
http://www.demantra.com/qsr.shtml
Having the right ingredients in place and the workers ready to prepare and serve is key to good customer service at any restaurant. A shortage of these items leads to unhappy customers, while over-allocating food and labor results in spoilage spoilage decomposition; said of meat, milk, animal feeds especially ensilage. and increased operational costs. Restaurants are constantly challenged with the need to accurately forecast demand. Balancing the ability to provide customers with the menu items they desire with the need to keep costs in check is tough enough when you have one restaurant. It is an absolute science when you're determining the right mix of resources at multiple locations at any given time. In this hour-long webinar, presenters from Deloitte Consulting and Demantra will share how leading quick service food chains: -- Accurately forecast demand for each menu item, ingredient and labor down to hourly and half-hourly intervals at the store level. -- Link point-of-sale demand forecasts to back-office providers, aligning all in-store operations. -- Reduce inventory levels while maintaining/increasing service to the restaurants. -- Predict, communicate and plan for the impact of limited time offers and new product introductions. -- Predict the impact of local events (parades, construction, competitor openings) on individual stores. About the Presenters Robert Howard People from England or Ireland named Robert Howard include:
foodstuff, grocery - (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one manufacturing, food retail and distribution, and telecommunications. He has a proven track record of establishing business and technology strategies to realize outstanding financial results for companies such as Kraft Foods Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) is the largest food and beverage company headquartered in North America and the second largest in the world after Nestlé SA. The Philip Morris Company (now known as Altria Group), a company that produces tobacco products, acquired Kraft for , McDonald's Corporation, Applebee's International and Coty Inc. Jim Langabeer is an executive vice president at Demantra, with responsibility for product delivery and research and development. Previously, he led Demantra's consulting and services organization. Langabeer is the co-author co·au·thor or co-au·thor n. A collaborating or joint author. tr.v. co·au·thored, co·au·thor·ing, co·au·thors To be a collaborating or joint author of: "He and a colleague . . . of several books, including "Creating Demand Driven Supply Chains," and has been published in over 20 leading journals such as the Supply Chain Management Review, the Financial Times, the Competitive Intelligence Review and the Journal of Business Forecasting. About Demantra Demantra's demand-driven marketing and supply chain solutions manage the rapid creation, planning and fulfillment of demand from promotion management to inventory replenishment replenishment the addition of an appropriate quantity of properly prepared solution containing the correct concentration of chemicals to the developer solutions used in radiography. . The Demantra Spectrum(TM) collaborative environment enables our customers to optimize service levels, increase profit margins and significantly drive overall business performance. Demantra has provided proven results - 100 to 500 percent ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). within the first year - to more than 100 Fortune 1000 companies and other global organizations including: Hunter Douglas Hunter Douglas N.V. (Euronext:HDG) is a Dutch public corporation and major worldwide manufacturer of high-quality window coverings and . Hunter Douglas has its head office in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and a management office in Lucerne, Switzerland. , Gulistan, Dal-Tile (Mohawk), Unilever, Welch's, Reckitt Benckiser Reckitt Benckiser plc is one of the world's leading manufacturers of cleaning products and a member of the FTSE 100 Index of the largest companies traded on the London Stock Exchange. It is headquartered in the town of Slough just to the west of Greater London. , McCain Foods, DeRoyal, Wendy's International Wendy's International, Inc. NYSE: WEN is the parent company of Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers. It also owns 70 percent of Cafe Express and 25 percent (fully diluted) of Pasta Pomodoro. The Tim Hortons chain was spun off by Wendy's into a separate company in September 2006. , Firmenich and VTech. For more information, please visit www.demantra.com or contact 1.866.DEMANTRA. Demantra(R) is a registered trademark and The Demantra Spectrum(TM) Suite is a trademark of Demantra, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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