What Does Consolidation Look Like for Retailers?
Learn about the Benefits and Success Stories of Consolidation
A key part of this communication is a run through of two consolidation success stories of retailers like you. You’ll find them in the first couple pages. They show how a well-executed consolidation program drives freshness, reduces shrink, and opens access to a wider assortment of products including specialty and organic items. This can also help with your sustainability initiatives with consolidation’s ability to optimize truck fills, reducing your environmental impact. In addition to these benefits, consolidation also reduces costs.
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Produce Consolidation’s Impact on Operational Performance
There’s a lot more to consolidation than utilizing a hub to bring together all your orders in one place and on one PO. Those two things are the beginning of the advantage consolidation delivers. However, we want to look specifically at the impact of consolidation on...
Keep Direct Purchasing and Relationships with Consolidation
Consolidation may seem to be another layer in the supply chain that will remove your ability to maintain the relationships with growers and producers that you have worked hard to build. Also, with many other layers added into the supply chain, you may also think that...
Using Seasonal, LTL and Specialty Produce to Build Variety in Your Supply
One thing that consumers like is variety and we are certainly seeing exciting varieties from pink pineapples in the produce department to arugula on pizza. The fresh produce supply chain has evolved to a point where consumers have access not only to a great supply of...
The Savings Found through Produce Consolidation
Price is a significant consideration when working in a fresh supply chain. In a foodservice or retail produce purchase, each cost, even though they may only be a few dollars here and there, quickly add up from one end of the supply chain to the other. Most of the time...
Improve Your Produce Business Through Transportation
When it comes to transporting fresh food items these two things are critical to ensure products with a limited shelf life and require refrigeration arrive fresh, safe, and of great quality for the consumer. This is something our team has learned over the years working...
The Pain Point of Transition – and How We Build our Business Around Easing Pain Points
Twice a year Western growers go through a moving of their facilities, operation, and team hundreds of miles away so that they can be in growing regions that support the temperature and environmental needs of many of our produce items. As you can imagine, this is a...
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