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Dad's Products Co., Inc. Chooses Park City Group's Enterprise Demand Planning to Keep Pace with Rapid Expansion.


Dad's Pet Care to Benefit from Park City Group's Partnership with JustFoodERP

PARK CITY, Utah Park City is a city located in Summit County, Utah, United States. It is one of two major resort towns in Utah, the other being Moab. It is considered to be part of the Wasatch Back and a part of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area.  -- Park City Group (OTCBB OTCBB

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adj.
1. Of or relating to prescience.

2. Possessing prescience.



[French, from Old French, from Latin praesci
 Applied Intelligence, announced today that Dad's Products Co. Inc., a leading pet food manufacturer, has chosen to implement its Enterprise Demand Planning (EDP (Electronic Data Processing) The first name used for the computer field.

EDP - Electronic Data Processing
) solution to support the needs of its growing business in areas of forecasting and customer level sales visibility. Park City Group is a leader in innovative solutions and services for retailers and suppliers.

Dad's Products Co. Inc. has experienced rapid growth during the past few years. Their product offerings have increased over 200%, their manufacturing divisions have doubled and they were finding it increasingly difficult to effectively forecast their customer demand and downstream production requirements. Dad's will integrate the EDP solution with their JustFoodERP solution for the food & beverage industry, which is powered by Microsoft Dynamics NAV Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software product from Microsoft.

The product is part of the Microsoft Dynamics family, and intended to assist with finance, manufacturing, customer relationship management, supply chains, analytics and electronic
. Dad's Pet Care recognized that their demand planning requirements have evolved to where they needed to add to the solid foundation of JustFoodERP to maximize visibility and planning accuracy.

Dad's Pet Care will be using EDP to improve their forecast accuracy, and enhance their execution processes while minimizing the amount of time involved in the forecasting process. Through the use of 'What if' and financial analyses, Dad's will be able to accurately forecast not only current product demand, but promotional lift and expected demand of new products. Dad's Pet Care has a large number of private label and co-packed items, so an accurate forecast is imperative to their success since they cannot resell overproduced items. "Park City Group's demand planning solution is extremely powerful and brings all of our demand signals and POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET.

(2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak.

POS - point of sale
 data together in one place, providing us functionality and visibility we have never had before," stated Tom Feather, Dad's Pet Care Director of Trade Marketing.

Dad's Pet Care will also participate in a Supply Chain Profit Link (SCPL SCPL Schenectady County Public Library (New York State)
SCPL Société Civile des Personnels de Libération (France)
SCPL Supracricoid Partial Laryngectomy
SCPL System Configuration Provisioning List
) Opportunity Assessment, a Park City Group service designed to identify sales and profit improvement through analysis of SKU (StockKeeping Unit) The number of one specific product available for sale. If a hardware device or software package comes in different versions, there is an SKU for each one.

SKU - stock-keeping unit
 mix and promotional optimization while identifying merchandising execution issues that may cause out-of-stocks or distribution voids. SCPL is a service for perishable per·ish·a·ble  
adj.
Subject to decay, spoilage, or destruction.

n.
Something, especially foodstuff, subject to decay or spoilage. Often used in the plural.
 and non-perishable categories that analyzes retail data and provides specific action steps to improve sales opportunities and cost saving measures not previously recognized by retailers or suppliers.

"Our recent merger with Prescient Applied Intelligence has greatly enhanced the solutions and services we have to offer to all points along the supply chain. Dad's Pet Care choice of both EDP and SCPL is a prime example of why we knew this merger would have great value to the industry," commented Randall K. Fields, Park City Group CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. .

About Park City Group:

Park City Group is a trusted business solutions and services provider that enable retailers and suppliers to work collaboratively as strategic partners to reduce out-of-stocks, shrink, inventory and labor while improving profits, efficiencies, and customer service. Our innovative solutions provide trading partners a common platform on which they can capture, manage, analyze and share critical data, bringing greater visibility throughout the supply chain, and giving them the power to make better and more informed decisions. For more information, go to www.parkcitygroup.com.

Park City Group recently acquired Prescient Applied Intelligence, click here to read more.
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