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Freight Optimization in the Food Industry
If you walk through a big box retail store of your choice, you may notice that some of the food items you can buy have the lowest costs per lb in average across the entire assortment. I know from practical … Continue reading
Posted in Costing, Organization
Tagged benefits, board computers, freight, freight costs, optimization, payback time, ROI, truck monitoring
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Feature Definition: Freight Cost Optimization
The food industry is a very competitive business which makes it imperative to manage costs well. Freight costs are probably the next most important block of costs, after yields (management of material costs) and labor efficiencies. Freight costs can have … Continue reading
Feature Definition – Cut-out optimization for meat packers
Lately I had multiple discussions with meat packers of different sizes about cut-out optimization models. Most companies have pretty ambitious visions on what a system can do for them, and to say it upfront, there are no computer systems to … Continue reading
Posted in Forecasting and Planning, Meat
Tagged cut-out, cutting, deboning, Meat, optimization
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Inventory optimization in meat means internal change
Certain topics approach me always in clusters. Most recently, I had a few discussions with executives in the meat packing industry about inventory optimization. At issue is the following scenario: Most meat companies ship the majority of their meats towards … Continue reading
Posted in Meat, Software
Tagged inventory, Meat, meat packer, optimization, organization, Software
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Integrated software solutions for the meat industry are better!
I was travelling the East Coast of the US last week, talking to potential clients about the opportunities in their business and potential solutions for them. I have been looking at existing systems in plants for about 20 years, designed, … Continue reading
Posted in Meat, Software, Software Evaluation
Tagged least cost forumlation, Meat, optimization, processing
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