Yesterday's waste is on screen before the doors open
Waste can be broken down per store and per ingredient, and you can see whether it is missed registrations, actual loss or something else entirely.
Before, the numbers lived in local Excel files
Helping Joe & the Juice scale from 500 to 1000 stores
Building one shared overview of waste, stock and sales
Joe & the Juice could not put a number on their waste. We brought their data onto one platform that measures it, keeps stock up to date and shows how every store is doing.
Automating waste, stock and sales in Snowflake
Optimising performance, minimising manual work - est. millions saved a year
01 The challenge
Waste was a given, but never a number
- Eight systems, none of them talking
- Sales, stock and recipes in separate places
- No one knew how much was wasted, or where
02 The solution
One platform, in their own environment
- We turn every sale into ingredient use, down to the single avocado
- Dynamics 365 updates stock automatically
- Running in Denmark today
03 The outcome
Estimating close to double-digit DKK millions saved
- Less waste and manual stock counting gone
- Overview on screen every morning
- Ready to scale to 20+ markets
From one bar to a global chain
The situation. Built for a startup, stretched across a global chain
Joe & the Juice opened its first bar in Copenhagen in 2002 and grew into a chain of more than 500 bars across 20+ countries. The tools to run it grew the same way the business did, and were mostly built in-house.
A private, home-grown setup covered sales, stock and waste well enough for a startup. Run across 74 stores in Denmark alone, it stopped being able to keep up: eight systems that didn't talk to each other, and no scalable way to see what waste actually cost.
About Joe & the Juice
Founded2002 in Copenhagen
Stores in Denmark74 across the country
The chain worldwideMore than 500 bars in over 20 countries
Chain revenueDKK 3.3 billion in 2025
The projectIntegrated with Dynamics 365 in under 4 months
What Joe & the Juice set out to do
The ambition. A foundation sized for how big they'd become
- Scaling beyond the startup toolkit. Replace the patchwork built for a smaller company with a foundation that matches the size Joe & the Juice has grown into.
- Turning waste into a number. Move from "waste is a given" to knowing exactly how much is wasted, where, and why, per store and per ingredient.
- One shared source of truth. Give every store, and the chain as a whole, the same figures instead of eight systems each holding its own version of reality.
- Automating the manual work. Let sales data update stock on its own, removing manual counting from the day-to-day.
- Building once, scaling to every market. Design a solution that works for the Danish stores today and can carry the rest of the 500+ bars worldwide.
My ambition was to build a foundation that could keep up with the growth and make us proactive about stock usage instead of reactive.
Built in their own environment
The solution. Every source connected and calculated every day
Now every single sales line becomes ingredient use, right down to the single avocado. At full rollout that becomes over 2 million stock postings a month.
What Joe & the Juice got out of it
The outcomeWaste visibleNumbers sharedInventory automated
The stores had never seen their own numbers. Now every Danish store has them each morning, the chain steers by the same figures, and stock runs itself. Ready to scale into 20+ markets.
Every store benchmarks against the chain average
Everyone works from the same basis. The chain sets shared waste-reduction targets, and the stores steer by them day to day.
Before, every spreadsheet had its own version of reality
Inventory updates automatically in Dynamics 365
Sales and usage are counted against stock as they happen, and the solution can order for them the day they want it to.
Before, inventory only counted what was bought in
Christian RavenbergHead of Supply ChainJoe & the Juice
»We use enormous volumes of fresh ingredients every single week, and I knew that if we were going to scale from 500-plus to 1,000 stores, we could not keep pulling data manually from a long list of systems and running heavy calculations.
Together with Meiseki we have realised that vision. Meiseki has been the technical partner who could turn my vision into reality, as well as a sparring partner on the business side, and they have taken responsibility all the way from the first workshop to running operations.
The most important thing is that we now have a foundation built for the future. The next step is rolling it out to all our markets and building forecasting of ingredient usage on top. Exactly the kind of scalable infrastructure that has to carry us onward on our growth journey.«
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