Efficient Foodservice Response (EFR) is an industry-wide effort to improve efficiencies in the foodservice supply chain that links manufacturing plants to distributions warehouses to operators tables.
A report, Enabling Profitable Growth in the Food-Prepared-Away- From-Home Industries, which serves as a blueprint for the project was published in early 1997.
The report documents $14.3 billion in annual supply chain savings that may be achieved across five strategies - Equitable Alliances, Supply Chain Demand Forecasting, Foodservice Category management, Electronic Commerce and Logistics Optimization - each of which is overseen by a committee of senior industry executives.
