Case Study Independent Purchasing Cooperative/Subway Inventory management solution helps eliminate pain for more than 24,000 restaurants across North America using GS1 Standards Challenge Many franchisees in the North American Subway network once shared the pain of time-consuming weekly inventory. The manual procedure was even more onerous when frequent discrepancies arose between stock, orders, and invoices that required troubleshooting and reconciliation. Solution An inventory management application based on GS1 Standards transformed a several-hour weekly ordeal into a more accurate, automated system that now only takes minutes. Because the Independent Purchasing Cooperative (IPC), the procurement arm for Subway’s North American restaurants, and Subway had already built a

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