Nicolas Riché, CEO of Columbus Café & Co, explains: “The choice of Inpulse is part of our digital transformation process. More than just an ordering tool, we offer our franchisees inventory management software that also forecasts activity, optimizes purchases and margins. Franchisees will have better control of their food costs, as a franchisor we will have a global vision of recipe sheets, mercurials, orders... to accelerate the go to market of new products and optimize purchases at the network level.”
Guillaume Tirquit, Columbus Café & Co franchisee in Rouen, reports on the problems encountered in the field: “Before Inpulse, we had shortages and losses due to a lack of accurate data on our stocks and our needs for raw materials. We hope to optimize our inventory management and therefore our margin. Automated order recommendations and credit requests via Inpulse will also save us time.”
Brice Konda, co-founder and CEO of Inpulse, explains how the platform works: “We designed Inpulse to allow point of sale operators to order what they need nothing more and nothing less and to improve their margin. Automation through artificial intelligence is also a real opportunity for franchisors like Columbus Café to accelerate the deployment of their network. Inpulse makes just-in-time procurement possible and supports the network head by providing reliable purchasing data. Our goal is for our customers to gain up to 5 points of margin by reducing losses, breakdowns, and unnecessary financial assets.”
After a few weeks of use, franchisees are already seeing the first benefits:
Sébastien Polo, operator of 4 Columbus Café franchises (Montpellier, Béziers, 2 in Nimes) tells us about the onboarding of its teams: “I tested Inpulse on my 4 points of sale. The tool is easy to use. It's simple and intuitive. I am amazed at the accuracy of the sales forecasts.” Augustin Anandout, franchisee Columbus Café & Co in Bourges adds: “My manager was trained quickly and for my part, I can monitor my margin since the analyses, I no longer have to wait until the end of the month to see the performance of my establishment.”
Reconciling franchisees' orders with the quantities and prices negotiated by the purchasing department is essential to improve the network's purchasing strategy. This problem is even stronger in this context of shortage and soaring prices of raw materials, as specified in Anne Jacquinod-Carry, Director of Functional and Digital Transformation at Columbus Café & Co :
“We needed access to reliable data both at headquarters and in the field to act more quickly in this turbulent context. Thanks to Inpulse, we centralize key data for the analysis of financial performance at headquarters: turnover, purchase volume by reference, by supplier and for each point of sale: material cost, turnover, difference between theoretical consumption and real consumption. ”
The implementation of Inpulse has accelerated change management at Columbus adds: Anne Jacquinod-Carry, Director of Functional and Digital Transformation at Columbus Café & Co :
“We wanted to provide franchisees with an intelligent tool to optimize their supplies and stocks and better manage their margins. We took advantage of the implementation of Inpulse to review a whole set of internal processes, streamline our methods and professionalize our teams. More than a “purchasing” project, it has become a real transversal project to improve coordination between marketing, central purchasing, franchisees and suppliers. ”
Inpulse.ai revolutionizes inventory management and supplier orders: assisted by AI, your points of sale gain up to 5 points of margin on material costs. You control the performance of your network in real time to act quickly. Created in 2018, Inpulse is a platform designed for restaurant chains, dark kitchens, bakeries and thematic corners such as Columbus Café, Côté Sushi, Blend, Ofc, Ofc, Franks Hot Dog, Franks Hot Dog, Wasabi Corner or Laura Todd.
Created in 1994, Columbus Café & Co is the first coffee shop brand to be established in France. Above all, it is a human adventure. With us, behind an Anglo-Saxon look, we cultivate above all the spirit of neighborhood French coffee, the love of good taste and authenticity. Our network now has more than 220 coffee shops in France and abroad and we are continuing our development by opening around thirty new points of sale each year.
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