Tag: supply chain

Razor thin margins, price fluctuations, and high levels of product waste tend to drive a cost control mentality in the produce industry.

Putting all your proverbial eggs (or fruits and vegetables) in one basket is a risky proposition. A wide range of problems can jeopardize product flows originating from a single grower or region.

If we learned anything during the early days of the pandemic, it’s that supply chain team members are essential workers. Frontline staff working in the fields, packing plants, and warehouses perform critical tasks and provide the capability to keep up with demand.

When faced with a crisis, organizations focus on the big issues that impact supply chain success—labor, transportation, key suppliers, and major customers. Yet we learned over the last two years that the little things often matter the most.

There’s so much talk about the abundance of data, analytics, and digitalization that it’s difficult to imagine that many companies lack the business intelligence to make sound supply chain decisions—yet that’s the reality for some organizations.

Significant disruptions have become more commonplace as companies struggle to maintain consistent product flows and to control operating costs.

Western Growers Center for Innovation and Technology (WGCIT) recently assisted Inteligistics, a WGCIT partner, in the evaluation of Inteligistics’ InteliCool system at Fresh Del Monte facilities in Salinas, CA and Yuma, AZ.

There are so many things working against the supply chain that good times seem far away.

Georgia is the first state to respond to current supply difficulties in this way, although members of the California congressional delegation urged a similar measure on Governor Gavin Newsom in November.

Inteligistics has been working quietly to bring Silicon Valley cloud-powered and paperless scientific technology to support supply chain performance, productivity and sustainability for some of the leading growers and shippers in the Salinas Valley and elsewhere.