Blue Ridge Named to Food Logistics’ FL100: Top Technology Providers for 2020

— Blue Ridge supply chain planning and pricing solutions balance customer needs with business realities that put pressure on today’s foodservice and food wholesale distributors–

ATLANTA, December 16, 2020 – Blue Ridge, a leader in supply chain planning and pricing solutions, today announced that it has been named to the 2020 FL100+ Top Software and Technology Providers list by Food Logistics, the only publication exclusively dedicated to covering the movement of product through the global food supply chain. The annual FL100+ Top Software and Technology Providers honors leading software and technology providers that ensure a safe, efficient and reliable global food and beverage supply chain.

Blue Ridge’s distribution-focused pricing, forecasting and inventory planning platform balances customer needs with business realities like erratic demand from regional uniqueness, seasonality, and market fluctuations that put pressure on foodservice and food wholesale distributors. In 2018 and 2020, Frost & Sullivan recognized Blue Ridge as the Best Cloud-Native Supply Chain Planning Solution for Distributors.

Blue Ridge’s cloud-native technology generates a precise, day-by-day view of the supply chain to ensure product availability, prevent stock-outs, and eliminate excess inventory. Blue Ridge customers include Ben E. Keith Foodservice, Community Coffee Company, Hardie’s Fresh Foods, Merchants Foodservice, Shamrock Foods and Suisan Foodservice.

“The ability to accurately forecast is of particular importance for perishable food distributors that prioritize the shelf life of products for their grocery customers above all,” said Jim Byrnes, CEO of Blue Ridge.

Blue Ridge’s cloud-native Supply Chain Planning (SCP) solution fully optimizes distributor inventory levels for both profit and desired service levels to the end customer. The solution automatically adapts to market trends and alerts users to suggested purchase order quantities, transfer orders, and demand shifts based on the latest data. Blue Ridge Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is a next-generation S&OP solution that synchronizes revenue, demand supply and financial plans to craft one, consensus operational plan that ensures accountability across functional silos of the business.

About Blue Ridge

Blue Ridge Supply Chain Planning and Price Optimization solutions empower distributors and retailers to tap into undiscovered margin through enterprise-wide inventory intelligence, automation and synchronization. For more information, go to www.blueridgeglobal.com.