CHICAGO — ArrowStream, a provider of supply chain management solutions for the foodservice industry, has announced that its customer Church's Chicken has received a 2009 FS/TEC Top Technology Award for Project Excellence.
Church's was honored for demonstrating improvement of supply chain processes, purchasing automation and successful integration of logistics management systems with those of distributor partners — all enabled via the ArrowStream OnDemand solution.
Church's received the award based upon project results, including a 200 percent return on its technology investment. The project delivered benefits including:
- Improved food cost reporting accuracy
- Decreased receipt/invoice errors (from 99 to 0 percent)
- Purchasing automation (resulting in a savings of 500 man-hours per week)
- Return on investment in the first year of implementation
FS/TEC panel session
Alan Stukalsky, chief information officer of Church's Chicken, will participate in a panel session at FS/TEC 2009 in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 4 at 1 p.m. The panel session "Web-Based Supply Chain Management: Beyond Subscription Fees - The Cost of Entry" will highlight the benefits of using ArrowStream's OnDemand supply chain management software.
The session will focus on the advantages and challenges of browser-based inventory and invoice management systems. Stukalsky will describe how Church's Chicken worked with ArrowStream OnDemand to better manage its supply chain.
FS/TEC 2009, held Feb. 4-7 in Orlando, Fla., is hosted by Nation's Restaurant News in partnership with Robert N. Grimes. This year, more than 1,500 technology-solutions providers and foodservice decision-makers are expected to be in attendance.
