Supply Chain Logistics for Refrigerated & Frozen Food

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While some companies control every aspect of these functional areas, others choose to outsource one or many of them. The trick, of course, is to find the right outsourcing partner.

It was like going to the doctor and then hearing something that you really don’t want hear.

Yet this spring found a different type of doctor addressing leaders at the International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses’ annual convention.

Is it just us, or are consumers and competition raising the stakes for food plants?

For a few days, it was the nation’s largest new vehicle showroom. When the Material Handling Industry Association hosted its ProMat 2009 convention this January at Chicago’s McCormick Place, the event gave 300,000 square feet of exhibition space, in part, to new lift truck technologies.

Let’s face it: the phrase, “’Tis the season” applies to certain holidays but not certain topics. Forklift safety is a year-around, worldwide concern in any industrial setting, but that’s especially true in private and public cold storage warehouses where workers contend with the rigors of a harsh environment all year.

To learn about that latest in warehouse design trends, Refrigerated & Frozen Foods approached a handful of design-build experts nationwide.

Looking to reduce logistics and transportation costs? Join the club.

Talk with Mark Hayden and it’s quickly clear that he’s well “grounded” in the foodservice business.

It’s a business owner-operator’s worst nightmare: a complete warehouse rack system failure causing extensive product breakage, equipment damage, lost productivity and - far worse - worker injury or death.