Amazon’s 2017 acqui­si­tion of Whole Foods, and Walmart’s move into the online gro­cery busi­ness are good exam­ples of busi­ness dis­rup­tion, buck­ing tra­di­tion­al busi­ness mod­els send­ing rip­ples across the sup­ply chain impact­ing how dis­trib­u­tors and man­u­fac­tur­ers oper­ate their busi­ness­es to stay com­pet­i­tive. Enter­pris­es that have made the dig­i­tal tran­si­tion are more flex­i­ble and cus­tomer cen­tric, thus keep­ing prod­uct mar­gins and stay­ing com­pet­i­tive.

 

In this ses­sion, we cov­er the top­ic of logis­tics and ware­house man­age­ment by look­ing at two cus­tomer examples:

• A Flori­da based man­u­fac­tur­er which imple­ment­ed bar­code scan­ning to sup­port the automa­tion and rapid flow of prod­ucts through their man­u­fac­tur­ing and ware­house facilities 
• A Mex­i­can food dis­trib­u­tor who need­ed to imple­ment GS1 indus­try stan­dards, plus FEFO pick­ing stock rota­tion, com­bined with cus­tomer based shelf life to ensure high­er lev­els of cus­tomer ser­vice and to increase prof­its by reduc­ing food waste.

 

Speak­ers:

Tyson McMur­ren, Produmex

Scott Frand­sen, Produmex