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Foodservice supply chains are still lumpy nearly three years after the start of the COVID pandemic. In the meantime, digital sales enablement continues its onward march, and can help smooth out some of the bumps.

Foodservice sales Industry trends

Avoiding trade promotion poor performance repetition by moving to forward-looking promotion optimization.

Foodservice sales

Learn how Blacksmith TPM automatically retrieves daily data feeds and updates commodity price formulas for its customers.

Food brokers kept their finger on the pulse of industry changes through research, partner connections, and technology.

Using virtual research, menu optimization is easy. You can test different scenarios and implement those that maximize sales.

Foodservice sales enablement software equips salespeople with the tools they need to work efficiently, maximize business, and drive revenue.

K-12 school foodservice is highly specialized and complex. You no longer need to spend time gathering product information for school bids!

We learned from CPG customers and subject matter experts about best practices in post-event analysis and data harmonization.

Foodservice experts explain what they’re seeing in their businesses and how their perspective on the current industry recovery changes day to day. 

Learn about the distributor analysis report we created to understand the financial risk of foodservice distributor mergers and acquisitions.

Foodservice manufacturers and COVID-19 business impacts. This topic doesn’t need much introduction – it’s all around us – changing our habits and decisions.

Since 2012, the foodservice team has used Blacksmith TPM software to have a regular clear line of sight to all budget dollars.