Food & Beverage

Operational speed and efficiency in order to maintain freshness and customer responsiveness

 Food & Beverage

The pressures on the Food and Beverage industries are varied and challenging. Your customers – retailers, hotels, and consumers, are continuously changing: 

  • Retailers are consolidating, demanding more responsiveness and reduced costs from the supply chain
  • Consumer behaviour is also changing, due to the aging population, smaller average family units, increasing demand for fresh ready prepared meals, and an increasing concern about the effects of food production on the environment

An efficient and dynamic warehousing and order picking process is essential to meet the needs of both sets of customers and maintain long term profitability in the sector.

 

Dematic has a wealth of experience in this sector, and the different sub-sectors that make it up.

 

These subsectors include:

  • Meat
  • Dairy
  • Fruit and Vegetables
  • Bottling
  • Breweries
  • Frozen Food
  • Fresh / Convenience Foods

Beverage Distribution

 Beverage Distribution

Dematic’s voice directed Beverage Warehouse Control solution is a computer directed, real time method for controlling all warehouse operations from receiving and inventory control to manifesting and shipping while delivering very compelling ROIs.

 

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Fresh Prepared Food Fulfillment

 Fresh Prepared Food Fulfillment

Consumers are cutting back on restaurant meals, creating a growing demand for prepared meals. Is your warehouse logistics system ready?

 

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Pallet Storage

 Pallet Storage

The automation of pallet storage brings many benefits to the food and beverage industry, from increased operator efficiency and reduced land requirements through to opportunities to sweat assets such as existing buildings and distribution facilities.

 

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Pick from Pallet

 Pick from Pallet

Simple increases in DC efficiency can be achieved by using pallet technologies to automate replenishment of pick slots. This can then be matched with order picking technology such as Voice Picking and even LaserTrucks+.

 

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Carton and Tote Storage

 Carton and Tote Storage

The supply chain in all Food & Beverage sectors, but particularly in chilled food sector, is becoming faster in turnover, and sometimes even stockless. As order quantities become smaller and more frequent so high throughput buffering can be required for individual totes or cases.

 

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Tote Order Assembly

 Tote Order Assembly

Chilled food distribution in some regions is based more and  on plastic crates. Full crate picking and palletising can be automated simply and effectively, and even split case picking made increasingly efficient.

 

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Case Order Assembly

 Case Order Assembly

Food and beverage products with conventional packaging can be buffered and picked highly efficiently using the principles of Order Assembly.

 

Automation of all the steps is now possible, from depalletising single SKU pallets, through to the creation of mixed product order pallets for despatch.

 

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LaserTrucks+

 Voice Pick Guided Vehicles

LaserTrucks+ can help significantly increase pick rates for manual case picking operations. This technology is ideal for F&B manufacturers who typically have a few hundred SKUs to pick from.

 

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Route Sequenced Distribution

 Route Sequenced Distribution

Delivering orders direct to smaller catering establishments or stores can be a slow process for a delivery truck driver, particularly if the cases are loaded on the truck by product rather than by order.

 

Loading cases by order, in reverse drop sequence, either loose on the trailor or on pallets, can make the process much quicker and indeed safer.

 

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