Logile, Inc., a global leader in AI-powered Connected Workforce solutions for the retail industry, has announced the successful deployment of its next-generation Fresh Item Management Solutions at Schnuck Markets, Inc. This strategic implementation marks a major step forward in Schnucks’ mission to modernize and elevate its fresh food operations across its 114-store network. By adopting Logile’s advanced technology, the regional supermarket chain is optimizing everything from production forecasting to recipe management, while reducing inefficiencies and delivering a consistently elevated in-store experience for shoppers.
For Schnucks, a family-owned grocer serving customers for more than 80 years, the fresh food department is the heartbeat of its stores. Whether it’s produce, bakery, meat, deli, or prepared meals, freshness and quality are non-negotiable. Yet, managing the complexity of perishable items—many with short shelf lives, fluctuating demand, and strict regulatory oversight—has always been a challenge. Traditional methods, often dependent on manual processes, gut instinct, and inconsistent execution, can lead to overproduction, stockouts, waste, and compliance risks.
By deploying Logile’s Fresh Item Management Solutions, Schnucks is tackling these challenges head-on. The system replaces guesswork with a data-driven, automated approach designed to refine forecasting, standardize processes, and ensure compliance with both food safety and labeling regulations. The result is greater efficiency, less waste, and a superior customer experience.
“Logile’s solutions have truly transformed our fresh food operations, providing us with greater control over production planning,” said Kim Anderson, Vice President of Store Operations Support at Schnucks. “Digitizing these key processes and seamlessly integrating them into our daily operations has made a profound difference. We can now make smarter, more informed decisions, offering our customers fresh food at its peak flavor and freshness, while reducing waste and ensuring consistent availability of high-quality products.”
Advanced AI and Automation at Work
At the core of this transformation are several key capabilities:
1. AI and Machine Learning-Based Forecasting
Logile’s forecasting models harness the power of AI and machine learning to predict demand with unmatched accuracy. By analyzing a range of variables—historical sales, seasonality, weather patterns, local events, and market shifts—the system continuously adapts to evolving conditions. This intelligent forecasting reduces both overproduction and stockouts, giving Schnucks a reliable view of demand across every store and department. The predictive insights also enhance supply chain alignment, ensuring inventory is ordered and replenished efficiently.
2. Smarter Production Planning
The production planning tool gives store teams role-based visibility into sales trends and production requirements. By combining sales movement data with real-time on-hand inventory, the system calculates the optimal production quantities and timings for each fresh food item. This helps prevent overproduction, minimizes shrinkage, and allows store teams to focus their energy on execution rather than guesswork.
3. Recipe and Nutrition Management
Food preparation requires precision, both in taste and in compliance. Logile’s solution digitizes recipes and integrates directly with Food Data Central (FDC) for accurate nutrition labeling. It stores every recipe detail—from ingredients and sub-recipes to step-by-step preparation instructions—ensuring consistency across locations. The system automatically updates nutritional information and allergen declarations in real time, helping Schnucks comply with FDA regulations while providing customers with transparent information.
4. Grind Management
Meat grinding requires careful oversight to maintain USDA compliance. Logile’s grind management capability automates record-keeping by capturing supplier information, lot numbers, and production dates through barcode scanning. The process integrates with task management tools, ensuring that logs are accurate, complete, and easily accessible for regulatory audits.
5. Yield Management
Schnucks’ operations also benefit from improved control over raw product yields. Logile’s system tracks how raw items—such as meat cuts—are broken down into sellable portions, accounting for trimming loss, bone removal, and other variables. By maintaining cutting tests and yield percentages, the technology enhances inventory accuracy and ensures customers always find consistent product offerings on store shelves.
A Seamless Connection with Workforce Execution
Tom Henry, Chief Data and Information Officer at Schnucks, emphasized how the technology aligns fresh food processes with broader store execution. “These production planning and fresh item management solutions integrate seamlessly with Logile’s Connected Workforce Platform, aligning fresh food operations with store execution management to deliver a fully optimized in-store experience,” Henry explained. “With these advanced capabilities, Schnucks has improved demand visibility, enhanced forecasting accuracy, and ensured our customers receive fresh food at its peak flavor, while minimizing waste and markdowns. By automating core processes, we are ensuring consistency across locations and enabling more efficient store execution for our teammates.”
A Broader Industry Shift
The partnership also reflects the broader transformation happening across the retail industry, where precision and data-driven decision-making are becoming indispensable. Fresh food, in particular, demands a level of accuracy that traditional processes cannot achieve. Retailers are increasingly turning to automation not only to simplify execution but also to enable smarter decisions rooted in real-time insights.
“Fresh food operations require a level of precision that traditional methods simply can’t achieve,” said Purna Mishra, Founder and CEO of Logile. “Retailers today are seeking technology that not only simplifies execution but also provides actionable, data-driven insights for smarter decision making. Schnucks’ success highlights the broader industry shift toward automation and intelligent fresh food management.”
Setting a New Standard in Fresh Food Management
For Schnucks, this rollout is more than a technology upgrade—it is part of a long-term strategy to enhance customer loyalty through quality, consistency, and innovation. By ensuring that fresh food is available when customers want it, prepared to standard, and transparently labeled, Schnucks reinforces its reputation as a grocer that prioritizes both value and trust.
For Logile, the partnership further demonstrates its leadership in applying AI-powered solutions to solve retailers’ most pressing challenges. The company’s Connected Workforce platform, now enhanced by fresh food management capabilities, represents a holistic approach to modern retail operations—where labor, forecasting, compliance, and execution converge to deliver results.
As Schnucks fully embraces Logile’s Fresh Item Management Solutions, the benefits are already becoming clear: reduced waste, optimized labor, improved compliance, and an elevated shopping experience. More importantly, the collaboration serves as a blueprint for other retailers seeking to transform fresh food operations in an increasingly competitive market.
Logile’s partnership with Schnucks underscores its dedication to delivering practical, future-ready innovations that enable grocers to thrive. With the rollout in full swing, Schnucks is well-positioned to continue delighting customers with fresh food at its best, while setting a new industry benchmark for efficiency and operational excellence.
