Pantry AI

Every item you see in Target, Walmart, and any big-box retailer is using the same tool...EDI Electronic Data Interchange better known as EDI is a technology enabling businesses to exchange documents and data in a standardized electronic format. This tool is crucial in key industries such as healthcare, banking and finance, and retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG). If you want to learn more about EDI, when to use it, when to not, read this article! Link in comments

Great time chatting with Alex ❄️☕️ French CEO and founder of Bizzy® Cold Brew about scaling a beverage business, finding product-market fit, and selling into retail. Check out comments to link for full article!

I’m happy to announce our first case study with TOST Beverages. Look for Töst near you; it’s a very tasty wine alternative. We partnered in order to - Speed up order fulfillment - Reduce errors - Save hundreds of hours on manual tasks annually Thank you to the whole Tost team for being fantastic design partners Brooks Addington, Chie Addington, Dylan Ketchum, John Lord, William Hazelwood and Allen Goldman. If you are a distributor, manufacturer, or supplier who wants to sell more with AI, reduce errors, or spend less time on manual processes, reach out to me. More to come soon :) Read the full case study here (https://lnkd.in/ejx8A4Tx)

Why do distributors, brands, and suppliers have such big inside sales and customer experience teams? Wholesale is a relationship-driven business, but when you investigate what these teams are doing… you find that they are doing data entry, not delighting customers. * Time is spent by the team decoding vague descriptions provided by the customer or partial item numbers. * Up until recently, this or expensive and clunky automation, like EDI, has been the only solution, but AI is already changing that. Advances in AI can comprehend and interpret human nuances. Imagine a system that can understand 1. What the customer wants to order 2. Any revisions that need to happen to meet MOQ and ensure profitability, 3. Suggest additional purchases 4. And all of this automatically gets into the system for fulfillment with no data entry. Unintuitively, AI will make the supply chain more relationship-driven. If you want to find out how we’re already doing it, DM me!

There are two things that are unavoidable in retail... 👉 Chargebacks and Trade Promotion Marketing 👈 While it can be overwhelming and a lot to manage, don't forget there are great tools out there that can modernize your tech stack and help: ⭐ Promomash ☀ Vividly 🌸 Floret If you want a full run down on TPM and chargebacks, check out our most recent blog post (link in comments)

What do billion-dollar brands and million-dollar brands have in common? They're managing wholesale orders in the same way. You'd be shocked to see the amount of entry-level Wholesale Ops roles listed on LI that's no.1 responsibility entails some form of "Reviewing, Analyzing, and Processing orders." Isn't this a task that should be automated already?! Yup, you're absolutely right. Check out our blog that breaks all of this down! (Link in comments)

Curious how the big guys are using AI to get more efficient? We looked at how General Mills, Kraft Heinz, and The Coca-Cola Company used AI to speed up: - Product innovation - Sales and marketing strategies - Supply chain efficiencies. https://lnkd.in/e3MyW3eg

Wholesale here we come.

Expo West was a whirlwind - it also marks about a year since Arlo Clarke and I started Pantry. Last year we showed up with a dream and 5 connections between the two of us. This year’s show was an opportunity to reflect on the progress we’ve made. We’ve gone from nothing to:  1. Working product 2. Happy customers 3. A vision for transforming wholesale It was incredibly energizing to see customers face-to-face, experience spontaneous connections, and have random encounters wandering the show. I can’t wait to see what we do this year…and if you are still accepting orders by hand — DM me. 

It was fun to sit down with Jordan Buckner from Foodbevy to talk about how AI is changing the supply chain. Selling into wholesale/retail has 1000 moving parts, but it won’t be like that forever. https://lnkd.in/d_HkehbA