Food Distribution & Cold Storage

Move more and keep food safety in check

Getting product to consumers is more important than ever, are you doing your part?

Challenges

Transform your greatest challenges into opportunities

Meet greater throughput goals, while tackling vigorous food safety regulations.

Food safety

Your operations are essential and so is protecting them from contamination.

Make food safety non-negotiable

  • Reduce bacteria absorption by using impenetrable materials  
  • Achieve greater transparency and  help to preserve food in appropriate cold temperatures
  • Utilize food-grade lubricants that are USDA inspection ready and non-toxic
Ease sanitation concerns

Delivery expectations

Increased urbanization is pushing drivers to squeeze more stops into tighter delivery windows.

Exceed delivery demands

  • Stay charged longer and up to 2x faster with lithium-ion batteries
  • Help to empower your operator with greater maneuverability in tight spaces
  • Reduce stress and stabilize loads to help optimize control and operator confidence
Increase efficiency

Labor retention

Filling open positions with qualified labor is tough – retain your top talent and reduce turnover.

Retain talent and reduce turnover

  • Redirect workers to more value-added tasks by deploying robotic solutions
  • Offer advanced ergonomic solutions to reduce muscular and skeletal problems
  • Use telematics solutions to track truck access and training updates
Automate repetition

Tight profit margins

Reduced operational costs amidst heightened competition and pricing pressures are resulting in lower margins.

Increase profitability and bring more to the table

  • Automate repetitive tasks and help reduce operating costs
  • Right-size your fleet, reduce administrative costs and extend useful life of equipment
  • Utilize solutions to help reduce picking costs and increase pallets moved per hour
Drive greater results

SKU Proliferation

Consumer demands are increasing the number of food choices, causing SKU counts to skyrocket – creating inefficiencies and laboring picking processes.

Take charge of the invasion

  • Use variable height picking processes to increase SKU capacity
  • Place slower-moving SKUs above faster-moving ones for efficient access to frequently picked items
  • Add case flow lanes to pick lines to accommodate more SKUs
Beat the SKU influx

Solutions

Take control with these game changing solutions

Keep food safety and traceability in check, while meeting strict guidelines and increasing consumer demands.

Proven Approaches

Demonstrated to achieve results

Innovations to help improve throughput by reducing downtime, improving safety and ultimately lowering your operating costs.

Goya Foods optimizes distribution network

Find out how Goya Foods tackled growing demand for fast, next-day delivery from a 2,700 SKU inventory moving 60,000-90,000 cases per night with reduced product touches.

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Built around you - Nature’s Best

Discover how one of our customers was able to add 33-45% more pick positions, increasing their number of SKUs and revenue per square foot – all without a costly facility expansion.

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McCain Foods – serves more

By using opportunity charging, McCain was able to eliminate 10 battery chargers and consolidate their batteries from 60 down to 20 - resulting in cost savings and better facility energy efficiency.

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The ROI of robotics

Learn how robotic lift trucks can help address labor challenges and control costs, while driving greater efficiency, productivity and reliability.

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Increase slot capacity and picking efficiency

Increasing SKU counts and changing order profiles can prove too much for existing racking and slotting systems. Discover how new slotting strategies, and innovative multi-level lift truck designs can help enable higher performance and lower fulfillment costs.

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Impenetrable materials

With increasing efforts to boost sanitation and disinfection - did you know the End Rider uses impenetrable materials on all its touch points?

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Unlock cost savings and performance

With the industry’s widest range of power sources from a variety of brands, you can get the very best solution available in today’s market to maximize your operations - unrestricting your choice and a power solution built around your unique requirements for costs, labor, maintenance, emissions, space and more.

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