Skogen’s Festival Foods Implements Verisae Software to Enable Connected Facilities

Festival Foods Sees Early Compelling Results, Improved Operations and Lowered Facility Costs through Integration of Asset Management and Accounts Payable

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Verisae, Inc. (“Verisae”), the leading global provider of maintenance, energy, environmental and sustainability management solutions, is pleased to announce that Skogen’s Festival Foods recently implemented a core module of the Verisae Connected Facility platform – Enterprise Asset Management (EAM).

“We have been using Verisae for three months and are immediately starting to see the benefits of the system. Festival is excited to move forward and control our costs and make better decisions with the help of Verisae”

With offices in Depere and Onalaska, Skogen's Festival Foods is a family-owned company operating 17 full-service, state-of-the-art supermarkets throughout Wisconsin. Festival Foods is well-known for its “Boomerang Theory;” every business decision they make is based on the question, “Will it bring the customers back?”

“We have been using Verisae for three months and are immediately starting to see the benefits of the system. Festival is excited to move forward and control our costs and make better decisions with the help of Verisae,” said Steve Burkhardt, Skogen’s Director of Operations.

To cover the service and maintenance at their 17 locations, Skogen’s Festival Foods employs a team of three maintenance professionals, part-time maintenance workers at each store and a network of external vendors. They chose Verisae to streamline service management in their complex stores and cut costs from their maintenance budget.

“We are proud to partner with Skogen's Festival Foods in this first step into SaaS management. Their implementation of Verisae’s Asset Management solution provides the foundation to create connected facilities that reduce operational costs and a more sustainable organization,” says Jerry Dolinsky, Verisae’s CEO.

With Verisae, Festival Foods will aggregate and analyze data on the entire lifecycle of their assets including work order dispatch and tracking, remote monitoring of asset efficiency, warranty tracking, electronic invoicing and management of both in-house and third-party service contractors.

About Verisae, Inc.

Verisae (www.verisae.com) is the leading global provider of SaaS, cloud-based solutions that help large retailers focused in grocery, food service and specialty retail manage their maintenance, energy, environmental and sustainability programs. Verisae customers improve their customer satisfaction, reduce facility operating costs and increase profits by 15-25%. Verisae delivers a broad range of solutions to 70 clients globally with more than 100,000 active users across more than 29,000 sites worldwide.