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Perishable inventory management software, Reduce perishable inventory waste with FIFO and strict inventory management & monitoring.
Perishable inventory management software, Reduce perishable inventory waste with FIFO and strict inventory management & monitoring.
Perishable inventory demands attention. Specific inventory-tracking methods help with the job of managing and accounting for perishable inventory. Perishable refers to items that have an expiration date, such food that will go bad if not eaten in a certain amount of time. Single-period inventory control and first-in-first-out, or FIFO, inventory valuation are commonly used to deal with perishable goods.
Much of operations is about being able to match supply to demand. This can be difficult with certain business models that sell perishable goods. As a result, managerial accounting has come up with methods for recognizing inventory for perishable goods. Perishable goods, or goods that may have no value in the next period, can be difficult for managers to track; however, the single-period inventory control system can help to alleviate many issues involved with automatically replenishing inventory when it's down.
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"We are minimizing our inventory"
In the urban agglomeration of the Rhine-Ruhr area, the Corona-crisis has hit hard. With the highest number of fresh food markets and an early closure of the gastronomy sector there, the fresh food trade had been severely affected. "In the first weeks of the crisis, there was a considerable upswing in the specialist retail trade in the wake of the hamster purchases. Since March 21, sales have unfortunately fallen by a quarter, simply because everyone is then stocked up with food", says Ali Savi -owner of AS Obst & Gemüse- who runs a wholesale business in the immediate vicinity of the Duisburg Fresh Produce Centre.
About 70 percent of the entire catering trade in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia has closed its doors in recent weeks. Savi: "We are still supplying a few restaurateurs who are continuing their business. Fortunately, we also serve many regional specialist retailers: We are seeing a slight increase in vegetable products in this area. Fruit, on the other hand, is traded comparatively less than normal."
Perishable inventory management software
Perishable inventory management software
The owner's nephew during a FreshPlaza visit in the autumn of 2017. Family business AS Obst & Gemüse was founded three years ago and serves a broadly diversified customer base. "Some of our smaller retail customers have already given up their business. Even at the nearby wholesale market, some are fighting for their livelihoods," says Mr Savi.
Rubber gloves and disinfectants
Due to the current situation, the wholesaler is looking forward to the new month of April with humility. "I am simply at a loss. Mankind has not yet experienced what is about to happen," he says. Specifically in the fresh produce sector, he says, one could only take a few precautions to keep business going as well as possible. Savi: "We work with rubber gloves, but disinfectants and protective masks are no longer available."
Perishable inventory management software
Perishable inventory management software
Right: Tomatoes are one of the long-runners at AS Obst & Gemüse Duisburg GmbH Instead of restaurateurs, more and more private customers are now buying from Duisburg's specialist wholesalers.
Restriction of product selection
Apart from that, the specialist wholesaler explains that even more attention is paid to freshness than before. "We try to keep our stocks to a minimum or, as a rule, we only have a partial pallet and a reserve pallet in stock. Securing the basic assortment is currently our top priority: we have now removed sensitive fruit exotics such as avocados, air-freighted mangoes and papayas from our range for the first time because they are simply too perishable and are traded in too small quantities. All in all, our volume turnover has dropped by a third.
One of the major causes of food product damage, misdirected orders and indeed facility damage in food plants is from manually-operated forklift trucks moving pallet loads through the end-of-line and warehouse operations.
This is nowhere more evident than in the handling of chilled and frozen food products, which pose definite challenges for food processors that desire to have facilities operating at a high level of efficiency.
Maintaining a high throughput rate along with fulfillment accuracy at -18.4° F is a much more difficult and costly task than in ambient temperatures.
Chilled and sub-zero facilities have a higher incidence of product damage and wrong item fulfillment which have negative impacts on production and profits.
Not surprisingly, personnel turnover in chilled and cold facilities is also higher than in ambient temperatures. While the temperature in these facilities is cold enough to maintain food product safety, it creates an extreme environment with difficult working conditions for personnel, increased safety issues, and personnel recruitment and retention problems.
Such an end-of-line pallet handling and transport solution has been designed, and is being used by hundreds of companies throughout the world.
Smart Laser Guided Vehicles
A range of pallet load transport tasks within the end-of-line environment can be automated and handled efficiently with Freeway’s LGVs. These LGVs achieve a uniform flow of product without rush and noise, and with a high degree of safety for the goods carried, workers and the operational environment.
The LGV system comprises one or more vehicles that move around predetermined routes to perform transport functions as directed by a stationary control system. They are equipped with navigation systems, based on laser guidance, which allows the LGVs to be free roaming within the end-of-line system layout.
The latest generation of Freeway LGVs can lift pallets up to 36 feet high for positioning in racked storage or floor staging. This reduces the rack damage caused by forklift trucks. It also reduces energy costs as the LGVs can operate in an un-lit environment.
The LGVs can reach speeds of up to five feet per-second and can carry multiple full pallets at a time. For food processing facilities, they are an ideal asset for moving ambient temperature, chilled and frozen products in unit loads.
The laser guided vehicles are quite sophisticated, combining multiple systems to ensure reliability and efficiency, including energy, safety, fork/load handling and guidance and control systems.
The Freeway LGVs are outfitted with an obstacle detection system to detect anything in their path in sufficient time so that the units can slow down and stop if necessary. Once the path is clear, the LGVs will automatically continue their trip. The system is designed to handle high-volume pallet movements on a 24/7/365 operation.
The positional status is continuously being updated through the controls system, at least once per second, regarding such factors as whether it is loaded or unloaded, emergency stopped or soft stopped, operating in manual mode and battery level. A simulation module simulates the LGVs in the system. An HMI graphical interface gives the operator a graphical overview of the LGV locations in the system and monitors each in real-time.
The system’s controls monitor and guide the complete end-of-line pallet handling process, and optimize the use of different machine groups in relation to the logistic process and production management. Its modular design is tailored to meet the needs of specific food processing plants and their existing processes and ERP, such as containing software for scheduling, routing, monitoring and visualization of the complete end-of-line process for a particular plant. The food sectors’ special requirements for hygiene, safety and data tracking are leading components of this system design.
A New Benchmark in Automated End-of-Line Pallet Handling An end-of-line solution in food processing plants must go beyond typical measurements of cases-per-minute. It must include availability and efficiency, product damage, finished pallet throughput, finished pallet integrity throughout the supply chain, product traceability, staffing and maintenance.
Consideration must not only be given to case preparation and case stacking onto a pallet, but must also include empty pallet inspection and delivery, finished pallet handling, pallet stretch-wrapping, pallet labeling and pallet transport and storage.
With the emergence of Elettric 80’s Freeway, a new level of flexibility and efficiency above and beyond the capabilities of conventional automated palletizing and pallet transport systems has been realized for end-of-line production. For food processors, improved productivity, increased accuracy, better safety, less maintenance and reduced labor requirements are but some of the key benefits of this system.
Freeway has enabled a truly comprehensive and integrated end-of-line, system-wide pallet handling solution, which has set a new benchmark for streamlining end-of-line efficiency in high-volume/SKU food processing plants.
lim supplies continue on potatoes in North America
Potato supplies continue to be snug across North America, though how tight things are is still to be determined.
“Supplies have been tight this season from the beginning,” says Ryan Wahlen of Pleasant Valley Potato in Aberdeen, ID. “It’s a combination of factors. We had a couple of frosts last spring that set crops back. Yields were off significantly and the size profile was much smaller than normal. There was also an early frost in October that set roughly 20-25 percent of Idaho’s crop back and affected supply significantly.”
Ken Gad of South Easton, MA-based Cambridge Farms Inc. adds that there’s an uncertainty almost about potato inventories in North America currently. “I’m seeing a lot of confusion in the supply chain. The confusion is brought on by what the true remaining usable storage crop is,” says Gad.
Perishable inventory management software
Perishable inventory management software
Photo: Cambridge Farms Inc.
It’s not just Idaho that’s affected. “Everybody’s supplies are tight and most shippers are like us—trying to limit what they ship so that they can have something to ship through to the end of the season,” says Wahlen.
Adding to the unknown are concerns over the coronavirus. “I think it’s influencing the buyers a lot,” says Wahlen. “There are a few concerned who aren’t sure how heavy to carry an inventory of a perishable item. They’re worried about their work force being impacted. They’re worried about entertainment and travel being impacted and in turn that has an impact on foodservice.”