{"id":27773,"date":"2021-01-22T14:30:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T19:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stageres.blueridgeglobal.com\/blue-ridge-partners-with-unipro-to-deliver-supply-chain-planning-to-members-of-the-largest-food-distribution-co-op-in-the-united-states\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T20:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:58:15","slug":"blue-ridge-partners-with-unipro-to-deliver-supply-chain-planning-to-members-of-the-largest-food-distribution-co-op-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/resources-press-releases\/blue-ridge-partners-with-unipro-to-deliver-supply-chain-planning-to-members-of-the-largest-food-distribution-co-op-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Ridge Partners with UniPro to Deliver Supply Chain Planning to Members of the Largest Food Distribution Co-Op in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n

— Blue Ridge is now the exclusive supply chain planning provider to UniPro members throughout North America–<\/em><\/p>\n

ATLANTA, January 22, 2021<\/strong> \u2013 Blue Ridge<\/a>,<\/u>\u00a0a leader in\u00a0supply chain planning<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0pricing solutions,\u00a0today announced a partnership with UniPro Foodservice, Inc.<\/a>, the largest food distribution co-op in the United States. Blue Ridge will deliver its Supply Chain Planning solutions UniPro\u2019s co-op membership of more than 800 independent distributors, which maintains a collective distributor sales volume in excess of $115 billion. Blue Ridge sees the partnership as key to accelerating awareness and extending the benefits of improved inventory planning beyond its current customer base of over 30 food distributors.<\/p>\n

Blue Ridge\u2019s distribution-focused forecasting and inventory planning platform 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.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cBlue Ridge has a successful track record with many of the UniPro members large and small.\u00a0\u00a0 Our recent addition of UNIPRO member, A.F. Wendling, in December 2020 is another proof point of our collaboration that drives value to members,\u201d said Jeff Jenkins, chief revenue officer, Blue Ridge. \u201cWe believe this partnership is key to helping additional members maintain elite service levels amidst shifting market demand and, at the same time, free up cash on unnecessary inventory. Since our foundation, we\u2019ve worked closely with our food distribution customers. Now we plan to work closely with UniPro also to continue to ensure our Supply Chain Planning solution solves the food industry\u2019s unique challenges like perishability, new items, seasonality, re-distribution and supplier collaboration \u2013 among others.\u201d<\/p>\n

UniPro and Blue Ridge will host a webinar for food distributors on February 24, 2021 that shares three \u201cwar stories\u201d of distribution businesses \u2013 the challenges they faced, the metrics they achieved and how they used these technologies to get a handle on overstock, stockouts and inventory planning efficiency. Distributors can pre-register here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About Blue Ridge<\/strong><\/p>\n

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. Blue Ridge uniquely combines demand forecasting with pricing strategy, so that businesses can proactively understand the unpredictable and allocate the right inventory, right-priced across the entire mix, to accelerate top- and bottom-line results. In a world where the only constant is change, Blue Ridge provides more certainty, more speed and more assurance, so companies can see the why behind the buy and respond faster to the unexpected. That\u2019s why major retailers and distributors rely on Blue Ridge for a more foreseeable future. For more information, go to\u00a0www.blueridgeglobal.com<\/a>.\"\"<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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