Key Food Stores Co-Op Implements Computer-Assisted Ordering

NEW YORK -- Key Food Stores Co-Op, a Staten Island-based company that has 100-plus individually owned member supermarkets, has completed its implementation of the BRdata Computer-Assisted Ordering (CAO) Module, BRdata, Melville, N.Y., announced last week. Orders are sent from stores and centralized at Key Food corporate office before being sent to Key Food‘s wholesaler, C&S Wholesale Grocers. Using BRdata‘s graphical CAO Module, users are presented with all of the necessary information to optimize the ordering process, ensuring that they are ordering the correct quantities at the lowest possible cost, said BRdata. “Our stores are enjoying labor savings because the order process takes significantly less time than it previously did, since they order directly from the shelf," said Steve Pfirrman, IT project manager, KeyFood, in a statement.