Forty years of helping independent grocers hold their ground
The independent grocer is up against margins measured in pennies, national chains with deeper pockets, and shrink that eats profit before anyone notices. Decisions get made on gut feel because the numbers arrive too late to matter. By the time the monthly financials land, the moment to act has already passed.
That’s the fight FMS Solutions has been in for decades. They provide business process outsourcing to independent grocers and multi-unit retailers across the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean — the financial tools and back-office muscle that let independent businesses make sharper decisions and stay competitive against much larger players.
Weidenhammer has been their technology partner for more than forty years. Not a vendor they call when something breaks — a partner building the platforms their business runs on.
What This Partnership Delivers
FMS gives independent grocers something the big chains take for granted: real numbers, in real time, in language a store operator can act on. We build the software that makes that possible — across accounting, labor, inventory, and the daily flood of paperwork that keeps a retail business running.
Profit Hound:
The Numbers, Before It’s Too Late
A store manager shouldn’t have to wait for month-end to find out a department is bleeding margin. Profit Hound pulls financial, operational, and labor data from across every FMS application into one live dashboard — on the phone in your pocket, whether that’s Apple or Android.
Real-time Performance Dashboards, Accessible on Any Device
Predictive Insight and Decision Support, Not Just Historical Reporting
Labor and Margin Control in One View
Cloud-Secure Reporting
A Generative AI Chat Assistant Grounded in Real Grocery-Industry Knowledge
WorkHappy:
Schedules That Math the Store, Not the Guesswork
Labor is one of the largest controllable costs in grocery, and turnover quietly makes it worse. WorkHappy builds schedules around demand, sales forecasts, and historical patterns instead of a manager’s best guess — and gives employees visibility and a say in their own schedules, which keeps good people around longer.
Track-It:
Catching Shrink Before it Disappears
Shrink is the profit that walks out the door unrecorded. Track-It puts a number on it — tracking shrink and markdowns, managing product ordering and grind logs, and turning it all into real-time reports a store can act on now, not at the next inventory count.
Retail-Specific Accounting
The financial backbone, built for how grocery actually operates — accounting and payroll, accounts receivable and payable, billbacks management, general ledger, and bank reconciliation, integrated into one suite instead of stitched together.
Where the AI Actually Earns Its Keep
Everyone talks about AI. Here’s what it looks like when it does real work: FMS handles a staggering volume of supplier paperwork, so we built an AI Document Cognition and Processing solution that reads and processes nearly two million invoices a year. That’s work that used to consume people, now handled quietly in the background.
Across the relationship, we support FMS the way we support the rest of our business — AI, cloud, security, custom application development, and creative — so the pieces work together instead of pulling in different directions.
The Real Takeaway
Forty years is a long time to keep earning a client’s business. It doesn’t happen because of one clever product. It happens because the work keeps solving the problem underneath the problem — helping independent grocers see clearly and act fast enough to compete with companies many times their size.
Where in your business are the numbers arriving too late to do anything about them?
When you’re ready
Let’s hammer it out together.