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For cold and frozen storage professionals, one solution to a need for additional capacity might be the racking and storage systems currently in place. Increasing storage density may be achieved in several ways, depending on the age of the facility.
Faced with added pressures of drought affecting the Midwest, reduced livestock herds and global economic impacts such as grain shortages, meat packers need to look at trimming operational costs wherever they can.
Although these systems have worked well in their own right to provide supply chain managers with essential information to run their operations, the emergence of digital and cloud tools has paved the way for enhancing their value substantially through integration.