How Do You Engage With The Supply Chain?

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Food Production
Farms

and other single-
ingredient suppliers

Multi-Ingredient Manufacturer

CPG
Caterers
Processors

Distribution
Broadline

Multi-Region
Multi-Category
Food and Non-Food

Specialty

Regional Broadline
Produce Distributors
Food Hubs
Brokers/Caterers

FoodService
Management Companies

Outsourced
Cafeteria
Management

GPO/Self-Op

Independent
Operators and
Purchasing
Organizations

Hospitality
Restaurants
Restaurants

Fast Casual
Ghost Kitchens
Chains & Groups
Food Halls

Travel and Destinations
Travel and
Destinations

Hotels
Airlines
Tourism

Facilities
Private

Commercial Real Estate
Residential Buildings
Corporate Dining
Event Spaces

Public

Institutions
Public Lands
Municipalities
Govt. Agencies

Reporting/Analytics
Private

Investment Firms
Consultants
Tech Companies
Corporate CSR/ESG

Public

Foundations
Associations
Interest Groups
Govt. Agencies

FOOD PRODUCERS:

FARMS AND SINGLE INGREDIENT PRODUCERS

Scaling Volume Through Distributor Partnerships

Our solutions allow farms to do what they do best— grow and produce food. As a participant in our local sourcing programs your farm benefits from visibility by distributor supply chain and buying teams, and scales order volume scale through participation in our online marketplaces used by institutional buyers such as universities, hospitals systems, corporate cafeterias and K-12 school districts.

Managing Foodservice Compliance

Local sourcing is top of mind for foodservice, providing opportunity for farms to participate in large supply chains that were once considered inaccessible. The complexity lies in navigating the web of certification, insurance, food safety, labeling and requirements. Although a challenging hurdle initially, it is well worth the doors it opens. We took this leap ourselves, and now help others to do the same.

MULTI-INGREDIENT MANUFACTURERS

Ingredient To Recipe Transparency

Demand for supply chain transparency begins with the consumer, moving down the supply chain to suppliers. In foodservice CPG firms, caterers and processors are therefore responsible for transparency into the ingredients they source for products, recipes and processed foods. Our attributes carry from original source to the finished product, assuring valuable data and stories are maintained.

Multi-Source Compliance and Reporting

Multi-ingredient products require sourcing from a network of suppliers. For national companies this can mean managing regional networks in multiple locations. The challenge is balancing the simultaneous need for food safety consistency, as well as the storage of certifications and insurance documentation. Our system offers full supplier network visibility from a single online dashboard.

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FOOD PRODUCERS:

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SEARCH ENGINE VISIBILITY

Supplier visibility by supply chain teams allows foodservice locations to discover your business and products.

As a Farm or Food Producer participation in institutional relationships begins with awareness of your products by supply chain teams creating local or sustainable programs that are a fit with what you grow or sell. Our search tools make this easy, providing the ability to find and contact you or your distributor partner.

  1. Initial Attribution of your products allows for a future perfect match for those looking for your products. Once accepted, your products are imported into our database by your sustainable attributes, ownership status (MBE/WBE) and business address as a potential local sourcing partner.

  2. Resulting Visibility brings connection either directly or through your Distributor. This is the first step in selling to the foodservice market and being visible to institutional buyers.

  3. Search and Filter Capability allows supply chain and culinary teams to design programs and recipes based on the unique qualities of your ingredients and products. Sample filters include allergen-free, dietary detail (example: vegetarian), sustainable (such as organic) or MBE/WBE-owned.

FOOD PRODUCERS:

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PRODUCT AND SUPPLIER MARKETPLACE

Local and diverse supplier purchasing is scaled through our marketplace and compliance management program.

Institutional opportunities for farms and small business goes beyond sales today to include complex compliance to comply with food safety and federal regulations. Our Aggrega8 Marketplace provides transparency into your unique business and products.

The Marketplaces include:

  1. FarmLogix Agricultural Marketplace, a source-identified marketplace allowing buyers, which include school districts, universities, corporate cafeterias and healthcare systems to source local farm products by miles and state. A convenient prebook system aggregates multi-buyer demand into a single location weekly delivery.

  2. MealsUp seamlessly integrates visiting local restaurants and local businesses into foodservice locations with turnkey scheduling management and B2C mobile ordering by cuisine, business profile and dietary/sustainable preferences.

  3. Turnkey Supplier Management includes required food safety documentation and certification storage, as well as notification systems, to help farms and local businesses manage their foodservice relationships.

FOOD PRODUCERS:

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REPORTING AND ANALYTICS

Machine learning and AI drive local and sustainable analytics for your customers and business needs.

Reporting and Analytics are an important component to all participants in the supply chain. Our systems provide analytics on your sales to institutional customers, as well as allow you to access data on which of your products sell best across vertical and regions. As a producer of multi-ingredient recipes and products, or an aggregator of multiple suppliers, the following self-service tools are available from online dashboards:

  1. Automated Enterprise Reporting: Products sold on our marketplaces can be merged with other business activity for on-demand analytics used by your yentire operation.

  2. Hyper-Customizable Options allows you to customize reports by custom definitions of local by state and/or miles, as well as by sustainable attribute, for multiple stakeholders such as your community, customers, and compliance with 3rd party reporting programs.

  3. Self-Service Dashboards provide the ability to run reports online with access for multiple teams, such as Supply Chain, Growth and Marketing and Sustainability, with remade templates for common analytics.

SUPPLIER CASE STUDY

Catalog attribution for custom filtering by sustainable and dietary attributes. Farm To School pre-order e-commerce with Local Reporting Hyper-customized reporting-as-a-service for University customers.

Supply Chain Visibility begins with catalog attribution for local, sustainable, allergen and dietary attribute tagging. Resulting capabilities include sustainable and local product search tools for supply chain teams, as well as aggregated multi- customer demand fo farm-identified products on our e-commerce platform.

Hyper-Customizable reporting provides local reporting for each buyer on the e-commerce platform with custom miles and/or state filters, sustainable reporting, including templates for AASHE STARS 2.2, and Enterprise visualization tools across all regionals and business verticals.

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Solutions Gallery

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SOURCE IDENTIFICATION
INGREDIENT TRANSPARENCY
ALLERGENS/DIET PREFERENCES
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
COMPLIANCE & FOOD SAFETY
DATA & ANALYTICS
LOCAL SOURCING
SUPPLIER DIVERSITY
ANIMAL WELFARE
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DISTRIBUTION:

BROADLINE DISTRIBUTOR SOLUTIONS

Data Standardization

As a broadline distributor key challenges arise from the ability to gather insights from national transactional data across multiple distribution centers. Designed for supply chain success, existing systems often are not structured to meet the reporting demands by customers for sustainable, local and equitable purchasing.

Diverse Supplier Support

Supplier diversity and local farm sourcing programs are complex to implement due to fluctuating needs and definitions by customer and the management of regional relationships. From food safety compliance to local sourcing, successful diverse supply chains require flexibility to be truly inclusive.

REGIONAL DISTRIBUTOR/ORGANIZATION SOLUTIONS

Regional Procurement Standardization

As a Regional distributor you are relied on for your hands-on supplier relationships and your ability to warehouse and deliver specialty and culinary items. Scaling your model through participation in national contracts requires coordinated procurement and systems to expand into new regions or collaborate with other distributors.

Aggregated Regional Reporting

As a Member Organizations or Food Hub your ability to secure national contracts is dependent on the value-added services you provide. Supply chain visibility , and the ability to report on local, sustainable and diverse sourcing national entity, region and individual customer is no longer a nice-to-have, it’s a must-have.

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DISTRIBUTION:

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INGREDIENT TO RECIPE TRANSPARENCY

Customer satisfaction is directly linked to the visibility you provide into the source and quality of the ingredients and products you sell.

As a Distributor you hold the key to connecting your customers and their diners with the story of their food. Whether it be a farm source, a vegan protein, sustainable seafood or Fair Trade spices, your ability to bring transparency to your catalog translates into menus that differentiate and bring increased revenue to your bottom line.

Open Fields ingredient attribution begins with:

  1. Initial Attribution of your existing catalog with the 85+ attributes for sustainable and local sourcing pre-existing in our database, including many of items you offer that we have already identified.

  2. Search and Filter Capability allows your purchasing teams and customers to view product attributes for specific customer or recipe creation needs at time of order. Sales teams can also promote local and sustainable items on the fly to customers and prospects.

  3. Identifiable Gaps in sourcing or diverse supplier engagement bring visible opportunities for catalog enhancement.

DISTRIBUTION:

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PRODUCT AND SUPPLIER MARKETPLACE

Gaps in local procurement and supply chain diversity are filled through our transparent marketplace and supplier management platform.

Local and diverse farm and business support requires complex relationship management whether at the regional or multi-region level. Until recently local sourcing was primarily for agricultural products, but today local definitions traverse all food categories and include measurable support of small and WBE/MBE/BIPOC and other minority-owned food businesses.

The Aggrega8 Marketplaces include:

  1. FarmLogix Agricultural Marketplace provides backend management of your regional supplier network, including certifications, product availability and pricing. The front-end prebook system aggregates multi-customer demand and manages forward contracting and logistics between farm and distributor,

  2. MealsUp manages the incorporation of restaurants and local food businesses into foodservice locations, ghost kitchens with turnkey reservation and vendor food safety compliance management.

  3. Local and Diverse Supplier Reporting by custom definition of local, as well as by WBE/MBE and other minority statuses can be generated from online dashboards for single or multi-regional programs.

DISTRIBUTION:

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REPORTING AND ANALYTICS

Machine learning and AI drive hyper-customizable reporting where no standard definitions for local and sustainable exist.

Game-chainging reporting capability is embedded in out platform to provide turnkey analytics. Fully acknowledging that definitions of local and sustainable are subjective, cloud-based dashboards provide multi-stakeholder reporting across the supply chain. Supplier management reporting also provides certification and compliance management at a glance. Key features include:

  1. Automated Enterprise and CSR/ESG Reporting: Our Enterprise clients, which include Fortune 500 and leading national food companies, rely on our proprietary data ingestion process and algorithms for full supply chain analytics and on-demand ESG and CSR initiatives reporting.

  2. Hyper-Customizable Filters allow users to select from 85+ attributes for sustainability, as well as custom definitions of local and diverse business support across all food categories. New measurements for non-food items, such as disposables, and GHG emissions, are continued enhancements.

  3. Self-Service Dashboards provide the ability to offer reporting as a value-added service to individual customers by their own reporting needs and definitions. We currently host 5,000+ plus dashboards that provide our teams with great visibility into foodservice trends and opportunities.

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D1
SOURCE IDENTIFICATION
D2
INGREDIENT TRANSPARENCY
D3
ALLERGENS/DIET PREFERENCES
D4
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
D5
COMPLIANCE & FOOD SAFETY
D6
DATA & ANALYTICS
D7
LOCAL SOURCING
D8
SUPPLIER DIVERSITY
D9
ANIMAL WELFARE
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FOODSERVICE:

FOODSERVICE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS

Multi-Stakeholder Reporting Needs

Foodservice management companies require efficient ingestion and standardization of transactional data from multiple sources for the valuable insights needed by internal teams to meet customer expectations and win and retain business. Added to this complexity are shifting definitions for local and sustainable and reporting needs varying by client, demographic and region.

Supplier Diversity Management

Adding to this data complexity is the need to actively bring diversity to the supply chain with visible and quantifiable support of local farms and small and minority-owned businesses. Scaling this effort requires the ability to balance local supplier networks across multiple regions with consistent food safety and compliance protocols. Supplier visibility is key to regional supply chain success.

GPO AND SELF-OP SOLUTIONS

Ingredient To Recipe Transparency

Today’s diners demand visibility into the source and quality of their food. Self-Operating locations and Group Purchasing Organizations managing cafes at campuses, workplaces, healthcare organizations and schools increase participation by procuring ingredients that clearly identify allergen, dietary, and local and sustainable attributes to create recipes that meet diverse dining preferences.

Multi-Stakeholder Compliance and Reporting

Whether it be the need for a local program, measuring diverse community business support or monitoring the food safety compliance of visiting vendors at your foodservice locations, the key to bringing menu innovation and diverse menu options to your diners is dependent on systems that provide transparency, turnkey program management and the ability to tell the story of your sustainable efforts.

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FOODSERVICE:

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INGREDIENT TO RECIPE TRANSPARENCY

Diner satisfaction at foodservice locations is directly linked to visibility into the source and quality of menu items.

As a Foodservice Provider you hold the key to connecting your culinary team and their diners with the story of their food. Whether it be a farm source, a vegan protein, sustainable seafood or Fair Trade spices, your ability to bring transparency to menus that differentiate translates to increased revenue and marketshare.

Open Fields ingredient attribution begins with:

  1. Initial Attribution of your existing catalog with the 85+ attributes for sustainable and local sourcing pre-existing in our database, including many of items you offer that we have already identified.

  2. Resulting Visibility from the data standardization of multiple sources identifies procurement gaps as well as the incorporates qualifying spend not previously counted.

  3. Search and Filter Capability allows your supply chain and culinary teams to design programs and recipes based on unique sourcing needs by customer location that include allergen and dietary detail, local and sustainable sourcing and diverse supplier support. Data points can also be used at point of sale and on digital board

FOODSERVICE:

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PRODUCT AND SUPPLIER MARKETPLACE

Local and diverse supply chain transparency is scaled through our marketplace and supplier management program.

Local and diverse farm and business support goes beyond procurement today to include complex compliance and delivery schedules into your locations. New definitions of local, that now include both product and vendor measurements, demand nuanced reporting and the ability to accommodate definitions of local for multiple stakeholders that include the community, 3rd party programs and state agencies.

The Aggrega8 Marketplaces include:

  1. FarmLogix Agricultural Marketplace with backend management of your regional supplier network, including certifications, product availability and pricing detail. The front-end prebook system aggregates multi-customer demand for forward contracting and logistics management from farm to fork.

  2. MealsUp seamlessly integrates visiting local restaurants into foodservice locations with turnkey scheduling management and B2C mobile ordering by visitor profile, dietary preferences and available pickup options.

  3. Turnkey Supplier Management includes required food safety documentation and certification management, as well as notification systems for scheduling and program compliance.

FOODSERVICE:

Scroll down for Foodservice Case Studies.

REPORTING AND ANALYTICS

Machine learning and AI drive hyper-customizable reporting where no standard definitions for local and sustainable exist.

Game-chainging reporting capability is embedded in out platform to provide turnkey analytics. Fully acknowledging that definitions of local and sustainable are subjective, cloud-based dashboards provide multi-stakeholder reporting across the supply chain. Supplier management reporting also provides certification and compliance management at a glance. Key features include:

  1. Automated Enterprise and CSR/ESG Reporting: Our Enterprise clients, which include Fortune 500 and leading national food companies, rely on our proprietary data ingestion process and algorithms for full supply chain analytics and on-demand ESG and CSR initiatives reporting.

  2. Hyper-Customizable Filters allow users to select from 85+ attributes for sustainability, as well as custom definitions of local and diverse business support across all food categories. New measurements for non-food items, such as disposables, and GHG emissions, are continued enhancements.

  3. Self-Service Dashboards provide the ability to offer reporting as a value-added service to individual customers by their own reporting needs and definitions. We currently host 5,000+ plus dashboards that provide our teams with great visibility into foodservice trends and opportunities.

FOODSERVICE CASE STUDY

Catalog attribution for custom filtering by sustainable and dietary attributes. Farm To School pre-order e-commerce with Local Reporting Hyper-customized reporting-as-a-service for University customers.

Supply Chain Visibility begins with catalog attribution for local, sustainable, allergen and dietary attribute tagging. Resulting capabilities include sustainable and local product search tools for supply chain teams, as well as aggregated multi- customer demand fo farm-identified products on our e-commerce platform.

Hyper-Customizable reporting provides local reporting for each buyer on the e-commerce platform with custom miles and/or state filters, sustainable reporting, including templates for AASHE STARS 2.2, and Enterprise visualization tools across all regionals and business verticals.

Scroll down for Features Gallery

Solutions Gallery

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FS1
SOURCE IDENTIFICATION
FS2
INGREDIENT TRANSPARENCY
FS3
ALLERGENS/DIET PREFERENCES
FS4
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
FS5
COMPLIANCE & FOOD SAFETY
FS6
DATA & ANALYTICS
FS7
LOCAL SOURCING
FS8
SUPPLIER DIVERSITY
FS9
ANIMAL WELFARE
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HOSPITALITY:

RESTAURANT SOLUTIONS

Ingredient To Recipe Transparency

Today’s diners demand visibility into the source and quality of their food at home, while dining out, and while they work, learn and travel. Restaurants today have new opportunities to expand their reach and revenue by providing off-premise meals and catering at workplaces, on campuses, and during travel and leisure experiences. Meeting the diverse dining preferences at these locations requires full transparency into the source, quality and attributes of offerings.

Off-Premise Opportunity Requires Compliance

With new expansion opportunity through foodservice partnerships comes new processes and prep practices to comply with food safety protocols at foodservice locations. Restaurants are often new to these procedures, which can include ingredient to recipe traceability, certifications, labeling, barcoding and other measures. The key to success lies in a process that your staff can easily implement and replicate. Our platform streamlines compliance.

HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS

Regional Vendor Network Management

Whether your dining location serves travelers, visitors, employees, residents, students or patients, partnering with local farms and food businesses is now a must-have strategy to provide diverse on-trend cuisines that resonate by demographic and region. The complexity lies in schedule and compliance management from multiple visiting vendors. Our platform provides multi-vendor management at a glance from a single online dashboard.

Multi-Region Sustainable and Local Offerings

Local support expands beyond agriculture today. Foodservice contracts are won and retained base on the ability to demonstrate quantifiable support of all local businesses, including farms, ingredient and product producers, restaurants and WBE/MBE/BIPOC-owned businesses. Scaling this effort requires the ability to balance local supplier networks across multiple regions with consistent food safety and compliance protocols.

Scroll down for Open Fields Solutions.

HOSPITALITY:

Scroll down for Aggrega8 Solutions.

INGREDIENT TO RECIPE TRANSPARENCY

Diner satisfaction is directly linked to visibility into the source and quality of menu items.

As a Hospitality Provider you hold the key to connecting your culinary team and their diners with the story of their food. Whether it be a farm source, a vegan protein, sustainable seafood or Fair Trade spices, your ability to bring transparency to menus that differentiate translates to increased revenue and satisfaction.

Open Fields ingredient attribution begins with:

  1. Initial Attribution of your existing inventory with the 85+ attributes for sustainable and local sourcing pre-existing in our database, including many items you offer that we have already identified. This can also include attribution for allergens and dietary preferences.

  2. Resulting Visibility from the data standardization process identifies procurement gaps as well as qualifying spend not previously counted.

  3. Search and Filter Capability empowers your supply chain and culinary teams with the ability to source ingredients for recipes transparently, and for your marketing teams to access the identical data to connect diners with the sources, quality, and dietary attributes of their menu choices for inclusive dining options with a story.

HOSPITALITY:

Scroll down for Sustainable Insights Reporting.

PRODUCT AND SUPPLIER MARKETPLACE

Local and diverse supply chain transparency is scaled through our visiting vendor marketplace and B2C mobile ordering technology.

Demand for unique and customized dining experiences follow the consumer where they work, travel, learn and live. Continually evolving trends and preferences that vary by diner puts enormous pressure on in-house culinary teams, which is why partnerships between foodservice and local restaurants, farms and food businesses is the latest emerging trend. Incorporating local food businesses with foodservice, our FarmLogix and MealsUp Marketplaces provide local and diverse supplier support while elevating diner engagement:

  1. Visiting Vendor Reservation System provides a marketplace of local restaurants, farms and and food businesses that can be filtered by cuisine, product, sustainable and dietary attributes, allergens, price profile, service radius and availability to reserve a rotating selection of cultural and regional dining options. Restaurants apply using a simple online form and have access to online calendars.

  2. Turnkey Compliance Management includes storage of required food safety documentation and certifications with expiration notification for by-location management of national programs that vendors can manage online.

  3. B2C Mobile Ordering allows employees, students, guests and travelers on the move to view the calendar of visiting vendors by their preferences and preorder, prepay and pick up onsite. Orders are aggregated for restaurants to scale order size within a single onsite delivery.

HOSPITALITY:

Scroll down for Hospitality Case Studies.

REPORTING AND ANALYTICS

Machine learning and AI drive sustainable and supplier diversity analytics for incorporation of food into ESG reporting.

Game-changing reporting capability provides transparency and insights that transform your dining experience into measurable support of local and diverse farms and suppliers with improved reduction of GHG emissions through sustainable purchasing and supply chain efficiency.

Reporting measurements include:

  1. Supplier Diversity: Your suppliers are attributed by business type, including WBE/MBE/BIPOC ownership. You can also add additional attributes to customize the measurement experience.

  2. Local and Sustainable Purchasing: Reports can be generated by any of the 85+ included attributes for sustainability, as well as by custom definitions of local by miles and/or state across all food categories. New measurements for non-food items, such as disposables, and GHG emissions, are continual enhancements.

  3. CSR/ESG Enhancement: Our proprietary data ingestion process and algorithms provide full supply chain analytics and on-demand self-service reporting or data export to incorporate into larger ESG and CSR initiatives.

HOSPITALITY CASE STUDY

Catalog attribution for custom filtering by sustainable and dietary attributes. Farm To School pre-order e-commerce with Local Reporting Hyper-customized reporting-as-a-service for University customers.

Supply Chain Visibility begins with catalog attribution for local, sustainable, allergen and dietary attribute tagging. Resulting capabilities include sustainable and local product search tools for supply chain teams, as well as aggregated multi- customer demand fo farm-identified products on our e-commerce platform.

Hyper-Customizable reporting provides local reporting for each buyer on the e-commerce platform with custom miles and/or state filters, sustainable reporting, including templates for AASHE STARS 2.2, and Enterprise visualization tools across all regionals and business verticals.

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Solutions Gallery

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H1
SOURCE IDENTIFICATION
H2
INGREDIENT TRANSPARENCY
H3
ALLERGENS/DIET PREFERENCES
H4
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
H5
COMPLIANCE & FOOD SAFETY
H6
DATA & ANALYTICS
H7
LOCAL SOURCING
H8
SUPPLIER DIVERSITY
H9
ANIMAL WELFARE
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FACILITIES

RESTAURANT SOLUTIONS

Ingredient To Recipe Transparency

Today’s diners demand visibility into the source and quality of their food at home, while dining out, and while they work, learn and travel. Restaurants today have new opportunities to expand their reach and revenue by providing off-premise meals and catering at workplaces, on campuses, and during travel and leisure experiences. Meeting the diverse dining preferences at these locations requires full transparency into the source, quality and attributes of offerings.

Off-Premise Opportunity Requires Compliance

With new expansion opportunity through foodservice partnerships comes new processes and prep practices to comply with food safety protocols at foodservice locations. Restaurants are often new to these procedures, which can include ingredient to recipe traceability, certifications, labeling, barcoding and other measures. The key to success lies in a process that your staff can easily implement and replicate. Our platform streamlines compliance.

HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS

Regional Vendor Network Management

Whether your dining location serves travelers, visitors, employees, residents, students or patients, partnering with local farms and food businesses is now a must-have strategy to provide diverse on-trend cuisines that resonate by demographic and region. The complexity lies in schedule and compliance management from multiple visiting vendors. Our platform provides multi-vendor management at a glance from a single online dashboard.

Multi-Region Sustainable and Local Offerings

Local support expands beyond agriculture today. Foodservice contracts are won and retained base on the ability to demonstrate quantifiable support of all local businesses, including farms, ingredient and product producers, restaurants and WBE/MBE/BIPOC-owned businesses. Scaling this effort requires the ability to balance local supplier networks across multiple regions with consistent food safety and compliance protocols.

Scroll down for Open Fields Solutions.

FACILITIES:

Scroll down for Aggrega8 Solutions.

INGREDIENT TO RECIPE TRANSPARENCY

Diner satisfaction is directly linked to visibility into the source and quality of menu items.

As a Hospitality Provider you hold the key to connecting your culinary team and their diners with the story of their food. Whether it be a farm source, a vegan protein, sustainable seafood or Fair Trade spices, your ability to bring transparency to menus that differentiate translates to increased revenue and satisfaction.

Open Fields ingredient attribution begins with:

  1. Initial Attribution of your existing inventory with the 85+ attributes for sustainable and local sourcing pre-existing in our database, including many items you offer that we have already identified. This can also include attribution for allergens and dietary preferences.

  2. Resulting Visibility from the data standardization process identifies procurement gaps as well as qualifying spend not previously counted.

  3. Search and Filter Capability empowers your supply chain and culinary teams with the ability to source ingredients for recipes transparently, and for your marketing teams to access the identical data to connect diners with the sources, quality, and dietary attributes of their menu choices for inclusive dining options with a story.

FACILITIES:

Scroll down for Sustainable Insights Reporting.

PRODUCT AND SUPPLIER MARKETPLACE

Local and diverse supply chain transparency is scaled through our visiting vendor marketplace and B2C mobile ordering technology.

Demand for unique and customized dining experiences follow the consumer where they work, travel, learn and live. Continually evolving trends and preferences that vary by diner puts enormous pressure on in-house culinary teams, which is why partnerships between foodservice and local restaurants, farms and food businesses is the latest emerging trend. Incorporating local food businesses with foodservice, our FarmLogix and MealsUp Marketplaces provide local and diverse supplier support while elevating diner engagement:

  1. Visiting Vendor Reservation System provides a marketplace of local restaurants, farms and and food businesses that can be filtered by cuisine, product, sustainable and dietary attributes, allergens, price profile, service radius and availability to reserve a rotating selection of cultural and regional dining options. Restaurants apply using a simple online form and have access to online calendars.

  2. Turnkey Compliance Management includes storage of required food safety documentation and certifications with expiration notification for by-location management of national programs that vendors can manage online.

  3. B2C Mobile Ordering allows employees, students, guests and travelers on the move to view the calendar of visiting vendors by their preferences and preorder, prepay and pick up onsite. Orders are aggregated for restaurants to scale order size within a single onsite delivery.

FACILITIES:

Scroll down for Distributor Case Studies.

REPORTING AND ANALYTICS

Machine learning and AI drive sustainable and supplier diversity analytics for incorporation of food into ESG reporting.

Game-changing reporting capability provides transparency and insights that transform your dining experience into measurable support of local and diverse farms and suppliers with improved reduction of GHG emissions through sustainable purchasing and supply chain efficiency.

Reporting measurements include:

  1. Supplier Diversity: Your suppliers are attributed by business type, including WBE/MBE/BIPOC ownership. You can also add additional attributes to customize the measurement experience.

  2. Local and Sustainable Purchasing: Reports can be generated by any of the 85+ included attributes for sustainability, as well as by custom definitions of local by miles and/or state across all food categories. New measurements for non-food items, such as disposables, and GHG emissions, are continual enhancements.

  3. CSR/ESG Enhancement: Our proprietary data ingestion process and algorithms provide full supply chain analytics and on-demand self-service reporting or data export to incorporate into larger ESG and CSR initiatives.

FACILITIES CASE STUDY

Catalog attribution for custom filtering by sustainable and dietary attributes. Farm To School pre-order e-commerce with Local Reporting Hyper-customized reporting-as-a-service for University customers.

Supply Chain Visibility begins with catalog attribution for local, sustainable, allergen and dietary attribute tagging. Resulting capabilities include sustainable and local product search tools for supply chain teams, as well as aggregated multi- customer demand fo farm-identified products on our e-commerce platform.

Hyper-Customizable reporting provides local reporting for each buyer on the e-commerce platform with custom miles and/or state filters, sustainable reporting, including templates for AASHE STARS 2.2, and Enterprise visualization tools across all regionals and business verticals.

Scroll down for Features Gallery

Solutions Gallery

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F1
SOURCE IDENTIFICATION
F2
INGREDIENT TRANSPARENCY
F3
ALLERGENS/DIET PREFERENCES
F4
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
F5
COMPLIANCE & FOOD SAFETY
F6
DATA & ANALYTICS
F7
LOCAL SOURCING
F8
SUPPLIER DIVERSITY
F9
ANIMAL WELFARE
Scroll down for our Needs Assessment

REPORTING/ANALYTICS

RESTAURANT SOLUTIONS

Ingredient To Recipe Transparency

Today’s diners demand visibility into the source and quality of their food at home, while dining out, and while they work, learn and travel. Restaurants today have new opportunities to expand their reach and revenue by providing off-premise meals and catering at workplaces, on campuses, and during travel and leisure experiences. Meeting the diverse dining preferences at these locations requires full transparency into the source, quality and attributes of offerings.

Off-Premise Opportunity Requires Compliance

With new expansion opportunity through foodservice partnerships comes new processes and prep practices to comply with food safety protocols at foodservice locations. Restaurants are often new to these procedures, which can include ingredient to recipe traceability, certifications, labeling, barcoding and other measures. The key to success lies in a process that your staff can easily implement and replicate. Our platform streamlines compliance.

HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS

Regional Vendor Network Management

Whether your dining location serves travelers, visitors, employees, residents, students or patients, partnering with local farms and food businesses is now a must-have strategy to provide diverse on-trend cuisines that resonate by demographic and region. The complexity lies in schedule and compliance management from multiple visiting vendors. Our platform provides multi-vendor management at a glance from a single online dashboard.

Multi-Region Sustainable and Local Offerings

Local support expands beyond agriculture today. Foodservice contracts are won and retained base on the ability to demonstrate quantifiable support of all local businesses, including farms, ingredient and product producers, restaurants and WBE/MBE/BIPOC-owned businesses. Scaling this effort requires the ability to balance local supplier networks across multiple regions with consistent food safety and compliance protocols.

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SEARCH ENGINE VISIBILITY

Supplier visibility by supply chain teams allows foodservice locations to discover your business and products.

As a Farm or Food Producer participation in institutional relationships begins with awareness of your products by supply chain teams creating local or sustainable programs that are a fit with what you grow or sell. Our search tools make this easy, providing the ability to find and contact you or your distributor partner.

  1. Initial Attribution of your products allows for a future perfect match for those looking for your products. Once accepted, your products are imported into our database by your sustainable attributes, ownership status (MBE/WBE) and business address as a potential local sourcing partner.

  2. Resulting Visibility brings connection either directly or through your Distributor. This is the first step in selling to the foodservice market and being visible to institutional buyers.

  3. Search and Filter Capability allows supply chain and culinary teams to design programs and recipes based on the unique qualities of your ingredients and products. Sample filters include allergen-free, dietary detail (example: vegetarian), sustainable (such as organic) or MBE/WBE-owned.

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PRODUCT AND SUPPLIER MARKETPLACE

Local and diverse supplier purchasing is scaled through our marketplace and compliance management program.

Institutional opportunities for farms and small business goes beyond sales today to include complex compliance to comply with food safety and federal regulations. Our Aggrega8 Marketplace provides transparency into your unique business and products.

The Marketplaces include:

  1. FarmLogix Agricultural Marketplace, a source-identified marketplace allowing buyers, which include school districts, universities, corporate cafeterias and healthcare systems to source local farm products by miles and state. A convenient prebook system aggregates multi-buyer demand into a single location weekly delivery.

  2. MealsUp seamlessly integrates visiting local restaurants and local businesses into foodservice locations with turnkey scheduling management and B2C mobile ordering by cuisine, business profile and dietary/sustainable preferences.

  3. Turnkey Supplier Management includes required food safety documentation and certification storage, as well as notification systems, to help farms and local businesses manage their foodservice relationships.

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REPORTING AND ANALYTICS

Machine learning and AI drive local and sustainable analytics for your customers and business needs.

Reporting and Analytics are an important component to all participants in the supply chain. Our systems provide analytics on your sales to institutional customers, as well as allow you to access data on which of your products sell best across vertical and regions. As a producer of multi-ingredient recipes and products, or an aggregator of multiple suppliers, the following self-service tools are available from online dashboards:

  1. Automated Enterprise Reporting: Activity from our marketplaces can be merged with other business activity for on-demand analytics used by your entire operation.

  2. Hyper-Customizable Options allows you to generate reports on the fly by custom definitions of local by state and/or miles, as well as by sustainable attributes, for multiple stakeholders such as your community, customers, and compliance with 3rd party reporting programs.

  3. Self-Service Dashboards provide the ability to run reports online with access for multiple teams, such as Supply Chain, Growth and Marketing and Sustainability, with remade templates for common analytics.

INFLUENCERS CASE STUDY

Catalog attribution for custom filtering by sustainable and dietary attributes. Farm To School pre-order e-commerce with Local Reporting Hyper-customized reporting-as-a-service for University customers.

Supply Chain Visibility begins with catalog attribution for local, sustainable, allergen and dietary attribute tagging. Resulting capabilities include sustainable and local product search tools for supply chain teams, as well as aggregated multi- customer demand fo farm-identified products on our e-commerce platform.

Hyper-Customizable reporting provides local reporting for each buyer on the e-commerce platform with custom miles and/or state filters, sustainable reporting, including templates for AASHE STARS 2.2, and Enterprise visualization tools across all regionals and business verticals.

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SOURCE IDENTIFICATION
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INGREDIENT TRANSPARENCY
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ALLERGENS/DIET PREFERENCES
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ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
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COMPLIANCE & FOOD SAFETY
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DATA & ANALYTICS
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LOCAL SOURCING
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SUPPLIER DIVERSITY
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ANIMAL WELFARE
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