Raley's Implements New Technology for Private Label Managment

West Sacramento, Calif.-based grocery chain Raley’s is implementing new technology from CMX to manage its private label offerings across 10 categories and 60 subcategories. 

First covered by Store Brands’ sister publication Progressive Grocer, CMX1 for Grocery streamlines and automates the end-to-end process for vetting and onboarding suppliers, authoring product specifications, and approving facilities for production. It allows grocery businesses to collaborate with suppliers and labeling and packaging designers to bring private label products to market faster and more efficiently.

With intuitive and easy-to-use digital forms, built-in and fully customizable workflow automation, notifications, and status tracking, it aims to ensure consistency and accelerates time to market. Additionally, CMX1 for Grocery offers supplier audit, document and certification management support to streamline the ongoing monitoring of quality and regulatory compliance.

“CMX1 for Grocery has taken what was once a largely manual process across multiple systems at Raley’s and enabled us to have a single solution with standardization and automation for how we manage our private label program,” said Elodie Thao, Raley’s Senior Food Safety and Quality Assurance Manager. “With plans to expand our offerings, we knew we needed a platform that allowed us to scale our management and monitoring practices across product quality and food safety, regulatory and supplier compliance, and ethical sourcing. From ease of access and use, including for our suppliers, to increased organization and efficiency, CMX1 allows us to focus on what matters most to our business – our commitment to delivering the highest levels of quality to our customers.”

Family-run Raley’s operates more than 235 locations across four states and four Tribal Nations under eight banners: Raley’s, Bel Air, Nob Hill Foods, Raley’s O-N-E Market, Bashas’, Food City, AJ’s Fine Foods and Bashas’ Diné Market.