FoodIndustry

Introduction.

In the food logistics industry, we understand that timing is everything, especially when it comes to supplying to consumer businesses with important events and functions across the globe. Whether you need food industry logistics for a shop, restaurant or catering business,

Our approach is simple. Our routing tools and industry knowledge allow us to engineer distribution networks that exceed our customers' expectations. By helping to reduce miles and time, you'll get the benefit of delivering a fresher product.

We provide agricultural products traders with technical solutions to challenges such as keeping perishable goods fresh during transportation by sea. Ocean transportation helps traders to reduce logistics costs significantly compared with air shipment. We help them do so without compromising landed quality

Strategic and tactical management as well as distribution tasks are resolved with the planning, control and optimisation tool –This tool supports logistics challenges in the areas of structure optimisation, distribution planning, location selection and logistics network planning and combines production and logistics issues. Logistics networks can be realigned and optimised with the help of UFL.

Today’s consumers no longer desire to be limited in consumption and purchasing options based on what retailers dictate. The growing preference for customization combined with convenience makes consumers extremely demanding as to the access the products they want, when and where they want it. This preference can depend on the type of product the client segment, and the situation at hand. All of these trends impact the logistic network of today and tomorrow:

• 'Distribution points': the growing need for integrated distribution points, with a range of options from stores are designed to increase the experience of the client (e.g. Cru) to stores merely designed for order fulfillment (so-called dark stores).
• 'Distribution channels': the growth in non-traditional retail and foodservice channels is impacting the delivery type depending on place, point in time, speed and add-on services offered. The choice of the consumer depends on preference (e.g. speed versus costless) and its situation (emergency purchase vs replenishment purchase).
• 'Packaging and format': Food on the go is expanding rapidly across channels, allowing some channels that previously could not compete in prepared foods to take on market share. Satisfied consumers will buy the same product again driven by the experience, the design and the

Solutions:

• A temperature controlled supply chain (uninterrupted cold chain for both fleet and warehousing)
• Flexible vendor pickups and just-in-time delivery
• Sophisticated equipment tracking
• An understanding of store and vendor requirements
• Delivery coordination between vendors, DC and stores
• Local sourcing of the freshest products
• Multi–temperature solutions in warehousing and distribution
• Purchasing and supply management
• Inventory management
• Systems integration
• Electronic ordering system integration
• Order processing and invoicing
• Customized reporting