Food Industry

The food industry is a complex business often with short delivery lead-times related to food expiry and regulated through high quality standards, ISO 22000 certification and often additional  FSSC 22000 requirements.

In the Netherlands we provided Interim operational management support to a European company to help optimize their logistics model. We studied their customer order profile and transportation costs in how these could become more cost effective. We renegotiated the subcontracted road transport rates whilst improving lead-times. We implemented BI dashboards. 

Another interim assignment in the Netherlands involved program managing post M&A, an acquired privately owned cold storage logistics facility. The main focus was aligning all operational and logistics processes with the new owner's working processes and quality standards. During this transformation, we also managed the operational staff for a period of time.

In the United Arab Emirates we supported a multi-national Food company with an advisory project on how to improve their customer logistics delivery program with shorter lead-times. Based on our recommendations they changed their commercial order model from multiple production sources in Europe to a model where they set up a distribution center in Dubai in which they held inventory for Middle East orders. We advised on how best to organize this financially from a cost of goods perspective related to import tariffs and also short-listed potential logistics companies in the UAE from a contracting perspective. This resulted in an improved distribution model at lower costs and shorter lead-times.