The foodservice industry thrives on efficiency, and Buyers Edge Platform Foodservice Technology is designed to help you achieve it, but navigating the landscape can feel like a maze. Data silos, manual processes, and fragmented systems slow you down and hinder valuable insights. The lack of unified data makes it impossible to see the big picture and make informed decisions
With so many solutions available, exploring the foodservice technology landscape can be overwhelming. At Buyers Edge Platform, we understand the critical need for unified spend management software and back-office tools. We offer a powerhouse trio of technology solutions designed to streamline your operations and empower informed decision-making:
Each brand tackles a distinct aspect of your operational needs, but together they form a comprehensive system to unlock efficiency and propel growth across your entire foodservice business.
Let’s explore the specific benefits each brand brings to the table:
ArrowStream
ArrowStream, our premier-foodservice cloud-based platform, brings together your entire supply chain. ArrowStream connects you to a vast network of restaurants, distributors, manufacturers, and leading brands, fostering seamless communication and data exchange.
What’s in it for you?
- Informed Decisions: Streamline operations, optimize profitability, and mitigate risks with end-to-end insights and collaboration. ArrowStream Central provides comprehensive dashboards, customizable reports, and targeted analytics enabling your team to make faster, more informed decisions.
- Forecasting and Price Risk Mitigation: With CommodityONE, you can manage price risks with commodity forecasting and item specific food cost modeling. Our commodity intelligence resources provide detailed forecasting for more than 250 products from food to energy and even plastics so you can mitigate price risks.
- Foodservice Incident Management: Increase operational efficiency, reduce resolution time, and maximize recovered credits with ArrowStream’s Foodservice Incident Management (FSIM). FSIM tracks quality and service issues directly at the store level, offering unparalleled visibility and streamlined incident resolution. Trusted by over 15,000 restaurant chain locations, FSIM standardizes the collection of delivery incidents and automates their resolution, ensuring optimal performance across your foodservice operations.
Back Office
Tired of juggling multiple disconnected systems? Back Office simplifies your restaurant tech stack with a comprehensive, hospitality-specific software solution. It integrates key operational functions like Food Cost Management, Payroll, Accounting, Bookkeeping, and AP Automation.
Backed by industry experts, Back Office empowers independent, multi-location, franchise, and enterprise restaurant groups to drive profitability and achieve peak operational efficiency.
What’s the Back Office advantage?
- Simplification: Through advanced machine learning, Back Office scrubs and normalizes your data, automating user-friendly reporting from the lifecycle of an invoice through to financial statements.
- Informed Decisions, Faster: Standardize key business metrics to understand how daily operations impact your financials, matching business decisions with profitable outcomes.
- Drive Profitability: Keep your finger on the financial pulse of your restaurant with weekly reporting. Weekly operational analysis provides complete financial clarity, empowering you to capitalize on opportunities and drive profitability.
InsideTrack
Data is gold, but only if you unlock its value. InsideTrack, our leading data and spend management solution, shines a light on your foodservice purchasing. Our proprietary foodservice technology standardizes and normalizes data, offering you a clear picture of your business health.
How does InsideTrack empower you?
- Unmatched Transparency: Gain the ability to identify overcharges, optimize contract compliance, and access comprehensive business intelligence with advanced data visualization tools. This transparency allows you to make more informed decisions and drive profitability.
- Rebates Management and Savings: InsideTrack has your invoice data, so we can easily get all of your rebates filed and maximize item coverage. This ensures that you capture every possible rebate, turning potential savings into actual profit.
- Answers to Burning Procurement Questions: InsideTrack provides the insights you need to make informed purchasing decisions, unlocking significant savings and optimizing your procurement strategy. By leveraging these insights, you can streamline operations and enhance overall efficiency.
Buyers Edge Platform Foodservice Technology: The Power of Collaboration
While ArrowStream, InsideTrack, and Back Office excel in their individual domains, their true magic lies in their collaborative power:
- 43 Countries
- 450+ Enterprise Concepts
- 800+ SMB Brands
- 250K+ Operator Locations
- 2,300+ Distribution Centers
Spanning across all major foodservice industries:
- Restaurants
- Convenience
- Casinos
- Healthcare
- Hospitality
- Education
- Experience
- Catering
These Buyers Edge Platform SaaS solutions maximize efficiency in many areas of a foodservice operation, including:
Risk Mitigation
- Minimize inventory disruptions
- Reduce quality and service issues
- Forecast market fluctuations
Cost Savings
- Decrease pricing
- Optimize sourcing
- Increase purchasing power
Labor Challenges
- Maximize supply chain resources
- Address store inefficiencies
The Buyers Edge Platform Foodservice Technology Advantage
We’re using technology to transform the foodservice supply chain. These three brands are just a glimpse into the comprehensive suite of solutions offered by Buyers Edge Platform.
We are your strategic partner, committed to revolutionizing the foodservice industry with cost-reducing solutions and data-driven insights to help you run your day-to-day business.
- Actionable Insights: We shed light on your foodservice purchasing with our industry-leading data and spend management solutions. Gain valuable insights to optimize contract compliance, maximize rebates, and answer critical procurement questions.
- Supply Chain Collaboration: We champion a collaborative approach to the supply chain, leveraging technology to connect stakeholders at every level for a more efficient and transparent ecosystem.
- Centralized Data Management: Our proprietary Data Manager software cleans and normalizes product codes from disparate sources, distilling each item down to one unique — and accurate — product code. Our stakeholder portals present easily accessible data insights to our operator, manufacturer, and distributor partners.
- Cost Savings and Increased Profitability: From maximizing rebates to streamlining operations, our SaaS solutions are designed to reduce costs and boost your bottom line.
- Scalability for All: Whether you’re an independent restaurant operator or a large enterprise brand, our solutions are designed to scale with your business needs.
- Future-Proof Technology: We are constantly innovating and investing in cutting-edge technology to ensure your solutions remain relevant and powerful.
Interested in what our technology can do for your business? Fill out the form below and join Buyers Edge Platform today.