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Profitability: Finance, Accounting, and General Administration
Monday, November 03, 2008
 
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2008 Foodservice Distributor Productivity Financial Report
Published November 2008
(This report is available in electronic form - Acrobat Reader 5.0 or above required)
The 2008 IFDA DPFR contains financial and profitability data for foodservice distributors. Findings of the report help companies understand productivity strengths and weaknesses and where improvements can be made. The study examines profitability results, expense management, and return on investment data from a sample of 28 foodservice distributors reporting results for the year 2007. The report also contains a major section profiling financial results including Return on Investment, Income Statement, Expenses in Relationship to Gross Margin, Operating Expenses by Department, Balance Sheet, Financial Ratios, Asset Productivity Ratios, Growth and Cash Sufficiency Ratios, Operating Productivity Ratios, and Employee Productivity Ratios. Data in the report are organized by Typical Foodservice Distributor (all respondents) and High Profit Firms, as well as by sales volume data based on two sales volume levels (under $75 million in sales and over $75 million in sales) to account for managing companies of different sizes. Thirty-five graphs provide data in the context of ten-year trends with both median and high profit data reflected.
Price: Member $125; Non-Member $325
2007 Foodservice Distributor Productivity Financial Report
Published October 2007
(This report is available in electronic form - Acrobat Reader 5.0 or above required)
The 2007 IFDA DPFR contains financial and profitability data for foodservice distributors. Findings of the report help companies understand productivity strengths and weaknesses and where improvements can be made. The study provides a profile on key financial measures, much of which is in the context of ten-year trends. These include annual sales growth, return on net worth, return on assets, net profit before taxes, asset turnover, accounts receivable days, inventory turnover, vendor float, and gross margin return on inventory. Findings also provide comparisons of typical firms vs. high profit firms in return on assets, profit margin, asset turnover, expense management, key expense items as a percentage of sales, departmental salaries as a percentage of sales, gross margin and inventory management, financial ratios and sales mix. The executive summary of the report also contains a comparison of five critical profit variables between typical and high profit distributors and an overview of financial results.
Price: Member $125; Non-Member $325
Other annual versions of the Foodservice Distributor Productivity Financial Report are available including 2006, 2005, and 2004. These are available only in PDF form. Pricing is the same as reflected above for the 2007 report.
In addition, the following two Efficient Foodservice Response reports are available as complimentary downloads:
A Roadmap for Success: Activity Based Management for Foodservice Professionals
Recognizing the foodservice distributors opportunity, Efficient Foodservice Response (EFR) commissioned the development of a primer to help the industry better understand the basics of activity based management (ABM) and its use as a business tool. The primer is designed to walk an organization through its initial ABM initiative by helping the reader to understand how ABM is different from traditional financial tools and how ABM can be used to verify or modify the strategic direction of an organization, and how ABM can be used to improve an organization's bottom line.
The use of ABM will assist distributors in:
- Quantifying the value they provide to the supply chain;
- Understanding the dollar impact of inefficient or unnecessary internal and industry practices;
- Implementing change to reduce (if not eliminate) activities that add cost, but not value;
- Identifying potential new services;
- Identifying activities that support growth in foodservice and other channels; and,
- Benchmarking and implementing continuous improvement.
Complimentary Download
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Activity Based Management for Foodservice: Getting Started
Activity based costing/management is the key enabler to realizing value from other EFR initiatives. It is important to understand what your current costs are, and what activities are consuming resources within your organization in order to establish a baseline against which to measure costs savings and other benefits from process improvements.
This report provides tools and information regarding the application of ABM techniques across the foodservice value chain. This approach enables a company to understand more readily the activities that are performed to manufacture and distribute products and service customers. The report provides a framework used in the application of ABM techniques, definitions of the various activities and cost drivers found within the framework and examples from a foodservice ABM pilot project of how the information can be applied for cost reduction and process improvement.
Complimentary Download
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