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Bimbo Bakeries USA Minimizes Waste by Improving Its Forecasts by 30% with Zebra Technologies<\/b><\/p>\n

AI-powered demand forecasting solution enables largest U.S. commercial baking company to optimize product freshness without sacrificing availability<\/i><\/p>\n

LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE<\/a>)–Zebra Technologies Corporation<\/a> (NASDAQ: ZBRA), a leading digital solution provider enabling businesses to intelligently connect data, assets, and people, today announced Bimbo Bakeries USA is using antuit.ai<\/a>\u2014now part of Zebra Technologies\u2014to transform its organization by improving order accuracy and team visibility, ultimately increasing customer satisfaction. With the Zebra antuit.ai Predictive Ordering for Direct Store Delivery (DSD) solution, Bimbo Bakeries USA has also minimized waste by reducing forecast errors up to 30% as well as achieving and maintaining forecast efficiency of over 80% for more than five years\u2014including through the pandemic.<\/p>\n

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The largest U.S. bakery company, Bimbo Bakeries USA is working with Zebra\u2019s antuit.ai software solution to improve order accuracy and minimize waste without lost sales from understocking and to empower front-line teams with greater visibility and productivity. (Graphic: Business Wire)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nOperating 59 bakeries and employing over 20,000 associates, Bimbo Bakeries USA engaged Zebra to leverage the antuit.ai solution to maintain the balance between product freshness and availability. The solution is also simplifying collaboration between planners and route operators. Moreover, antuit.ai has enabled Bimbo Bakeries USA to work in a new way, resulting in a \u201cPerfect Order\u201d solution that has minimized forecast errors\u2014overstocking and understocking\u2014and provided the company with better worker productivity.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cZebra is the perfect collaborator for the complex and sizeable challenges we\u2019re facing through our transformation,\u201d said Morgan Smith, Vice President, Direct Store Delivery Center of Excellence, Bimbo Bakeries USA. \u201cTheir antuit.ai forecasting and planning solution, augmented by a custom-fit user interface and deep industry expertise, enables us to achieve a significant step-change in both our order accuracy and organizational productivity. And the best part is that we did not have to wait years to feel the business impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nStock availability and ordering continue to challenge retailers with nearly 90% of retail decision-makers and associates agreeing these are the top areas to improve with technology, according to Zebra\u2019s Global Shopper Study<\/a>. Antuit.ai optimizes demand forecasting and planning, allocation, replenishment, and lifecycle pricing for retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies. Its software enables inventory decisions with demand intelligence leveraging both internal and external data, including weather and local events, to make more accurate, granular forecasts and provide better inventory decision-making power to businesses, like Bimbo Bakeries USA.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cI\u2019m especially proud of the success antuit.ai has helped Bimbo Bakeries USA realize,\u201d said Sivakumar Lakshmanan, Head of Software Solutions, Zebra Technologies. \u201cWe have collaborated together to embark on a new way of working\u2014augmenting human know-how with AI\u2014to solve the company\u2019s forecasting challenges, empowering them to digitally transform their business and achieve substantial results.\u201d<\/p>\n

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