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Year-End Warehouse Audit Prep for CPG Brands
How to Prepare for a Flawless Year-End Physical Inventory It's late October. Your finance team has circled a date in December for the year-end physical inventory count. Your operations team looks at the calendar and starts calculating how many temporary counters...
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How Real-Time Temp Data Builds Retailer Confidence
A category manager at a major retailer is evaluating two CPG suppliers for a new refrigerated product launch. Both brands have similar product quality, similar pricing, and similar marketing support. One supplier hands over a continuous temperature monitoring record...
Why Consumers Care About Your Cold Chain (Even If You Don’t Ship Direct)
A consumer picks up your product off a shelf in a grocery store in suburban Chicago. They've never heard of your cold chain. They don't know the name of your 3PL. They don't know what temperature the trailer was set to, or how long the product sat in a distribution...
Preparing Your Cold Chain for Q3 Retail Promotions
Preparing Your Cold Chain for Q3 Retail Promotions Your retail buyer just confirmed a Q3 promotional program across 200 store doors. The timeline is tight. The volume is 2.5x your normal weekly run rate. The product needs to arrive at temperature, on time, in full,...
How Extreme Heat Impacts Refrigerated Logistics (and How to Mitigate It)
There's a phone call every food and beverage logistics manager dreads in July. It comes from a retailer, a distribution center, or your own driver. The temperature in the trailer spiked. The reefer unit alarms went off somewhere outside of Phoenix, or Atlanta, or...
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