UAE-based F&B e-procurement platform, Watermelon Market, is using innovative technology to pave the way for restaurants and food suppliers across the UAE to adopt simplified digital transformation while optimizing food supply chains and their management. By leveraging in-house proprietary technology, their unique software integrates all-inclusive management tools, a marketplace, and a POS system to streamline product purchases and manage and track orders while having complete visibility and insights into associated finances and inventory.
Watermelon Market’s online marketplace allows F&B organizations to easily connect, interact, and conduct business with industry-leading food and beverage suppliers while accessing thousands of products, comparing prices, evaluating new suppliers, and finding the best deals. The platform facilitates business-specific pricing and volume discounts through vendor catalogue integrations and electronic purchase order functionalities. Additionally, buyers undergo a simplified supplier onboarding process to ensure that purchases are made only with approved sellers. Watermelon Market currently serves over 439 restaurants and hosts over 500 verified suppliers in the UAE.
The innovative software also offers end-to-end order management and procurement, which addresses all needs of an F&B business by aligning with the principle that less is more. Businesses receive a mobile and easy-to-use interface that is cost-effective, easy to maintain and comes with regular updates and remote deployment options which allow for flexible operations.
Watermelon Market’s simple cloud-based software stack also provides businesses with a free POS system to manage restaurants efficiently, whether operating single or multiple outlets. In addition to empowering services like digital menus, dining table management and QR Code payments, the system enables restaurants to track orders and manage expenses in real-time while automatically updating inventories and visualizing cash flows. This ensures faster induction at all levels and an extremely fluid transition that avoids disrupting daily operations.
By embedding smart automation, Watermelon Market enables organizations to free up valuable time and focus on their core competencies. Similarly, the software helps improve accuracy, reduce human errors, and accelerate the procurement cycle times through automated workflows, multi-level approval routing and compliance checks.
Moreover, the platform offers complete transparency alerting stakeholders of all transactional activities and providing visibility to all users depending on their role and authorization level, thus empowering them to make informed spending decisions. Audit trails are also provided to detail user activity with time stamps and promote accountability in managing the supply chains of large F&B businesses. Consequently, the software’s exceptional business intelligence tools provide visibility of business spending across categories and the ability to analyze reports on historical and real-time data.
Furthermore, after successfully using AI (Artificial Intelligence) and smart computer algorithms to solve problems more efficiently, Watermelon Market is keen on exploring it further.
“So far we have been helping our clients make better sourcing decisions by providing data-driven insights, automating daily manual inventory counts for restaurants, reducing wastage and optimizing inventory carrying costs through predictive forecasting.” Says Archya Sengupta, CTO and co-founder at Watermelon Market.
Watermelon Market has invested heavily into building a highly scalable and agile technology platform to fix the current inefficiencies in the restaurant supply procurement processes. Its first of a kind all-in one integrated solution digitizes the entire value chain of an F&B business, from when a customer enters a restaurant to when the order is served at their table. To discover more about the free-to-use platform, visit: https://www.watermelon.market/
