Local Line for Buyers: 2025 Year in Review

2025 was a year of meaningful progress for Local Line’s local food sourcing software. From helping Chipotle purchase over 47 million pounds of local produce to streamlining sourcing across 150 Tops Friendly Markets locations, restaurants, and grocers relied on Local Line to manage direct-from-farm procurement at scale with greater visibility and efficiency. Our focus remained clear: building tools that make buying direct simpler, more reliable, and easier to scale.

Throughout the year, we launched a series of improvements that strengthened order visibility, supplier management, and day-to-day buying workflows. Here are our highlights from 2025:

Enhanced Dashboard

In 2025, we invested heavily in improving the Local Line dashboard experience so teams could start their day with clarity. We launched a new and improved dashboard, which included:

• Upcoming Deliveries, giving buyers a clear view of what’s arriving and when.
• Weekly Metrics, surfacing location-specific performance at a glance.

Together, these updates made it easier for buyers to plan receiving, storage, and staffing without jumping between tools or reports.

Faster, More Confident Ordering

To help buyers move quickly while managing complex supplier networks, we rolled out several enhancements. First, the new Approved Products tab saves buyers time when ordering by allowing them to order off a single view of every local item, even if the items are sold by different suppliers. 

Next, we introduced Planogram and Category tags to give buyers more control over how products are organized and ordered. Teams can now create and apply tags to approved products, filter supplier and product tables by those tags, segment reports by category, and apply updates in bulk across price lists and product tables to save time.

We also added:

• Product priority to ensure buyers are ordering from suppliers in the proper order.
• Order timelines on every order, which is a new detailed list of order events, making it easier to track changes, updates, and order status over time.
• Recurring Orders and Bulk Actions for orders, payments, and deletions that have reduced repetitive ordering tasks by up to 50%. 

Receiving, Exports, and Operational Controls

Receiving and reconciliation are among the most critical and time-sensitive steps in the buying workflow. We introduced bulk “Mark as Received” actions, allowing buyers to close out multiple orders at once rather than process deliveries one by one. This made it easier to handle busy delivery days and ensured orders could be finalized accurately at the end of each day.

We also added order exports, including detailed product line item exports and high-level order summary exports. These exports give buyers more flexibility when reconciling orders, sharing information with finance teams, or integrating Local Line data into downstream systems. To support teams working with many suppliers, we added vendor-based filtering for sourcing orders, making it easy to review activity, troubleshoot issues, and reconcile payments by supplier from a single view.

Supplier Discovery and Management

Supplier discovery continued to improve as we focused on helping buyers find, evaluate, and manage the right suppliers for their business. With Local Line, buyers use supplier discovery and search by location, product or name using a map or a list. 

This year, we improved supplier onboarding, making it easier to invite vendors and onboard them to Local Line. After onboarding all your suppliers, we added priority filtering on supplier price lists. This helps buyers focus on preferred suppliers when placing orders or reviewing availability.

Finally, we launched the Sourcing Insights Tab, highlighting popular products in a buyer’s region. Buyers can make smarter purchasing decisions about what’s popular in their region without having to dig through historical orders. 

Navigation, Tables, and Day-to-Day Usability

In addition to larger workflow improvements, we made a number of quality-of-life updates resulting in a smoother overall experience. We improved navigation and created a more consistent layout across the platform, making it easier for buyers to move between ordering, receiving, and supplier management without losing context.

We optimized how ordering flows work across screens of all sizes, including desktops, tablets, and mobile devices. Improved discount visibility in sourcing product tables gave buyers a clearer understanding of pricing changes at a glance, helping them make faster, more confident purchasing decisions.

While each of these updates may seem small on their own, together they reduced friction in day to day workflows and helped teams stay focused on purchasing local food rather than managing software.

Looking Ahead to 2026

The work we shipped in 2025 continued to strengthen Local Line as the procurement platform built for real-world buying teams. From clearer home dashboards to faster ordering and receiving workflows, every update was designed to support buyers managing more suppliers, locations, and volume without added complexity.

We’re grateful to the restaurants, grocers, and sourcing teams who trusted Local Line as a core part of their operations this year. Your feedback continues to shape what we build next, and we’re excited to keep raising the bar for local food procurement in the year ahead. Thank you for a great 2025! We can’t wait to accomplish even more in 2026.