Challenges
Transform your greatest challenges into opportunities
Despite over 288 million square feet of distribution space, food distributors are still busting at the seams.
SKU Proliferation
The demand for more food choices is causing SKU counts to skyrocket – creating inefficiencies and laboring picking processes.
Take charge of the invasion
- Use variable height picking processes to increase SKU capacity
- Place slower-moving SKUs above faster-moving ones for efficient access to frequently picked items
- Add case flow lanes to pick lines to accommodate more SKUs
Delivery expectations
Urbanization is increasing; forcing drivers to squeeze more stops into tighter delivery windows.
Exceed delivery demands
- Stay charged longer and up to 2x faster with lithium-ion batteries
- Help to empower your operator with greater maneuverability in tight spaces
- Reduce stress and stabilize loads to help optimize control and operator confidence
Food safety
Protect your operations from contamination and meet growing regulatory pressures.
Make food safety non-negotiable
- Reduce bacteria absorption by using impenetrable materials
- Achieve greater transparency to help isolate concerns to reduce product loss
Labor retention
Finding qualified labor is tough – retain your top talent and reduce turnover.
Retain talent and reduce turnover
- Redirect workers to more value-added tasks by deploying robotic solutions
- Offer advanced ergonomic lift truck solutions to help reduce musculoskeletal problems related to operation
- Use telematics to simplify checklists and reinforce positive behavior
Tight profit margins
Heightened competition is increasing pricing pressures, resulting in lower margins.
Increase profitability and bring more to the table
- Automate repetitive tasks and help reduce operating costs
- Right-size your fleet, reduce administrative costs and extend useful life of equipment
- Utilize solutions to help reduce picking costs and increase pallets moved per hour
Solutions
Take control with these game changing solutions
Keep food safety and traceability in check, while meeting strict guidelines and increasing consumer demands.
Proven Approaches
Demonstrated to achieve results
Innovations to help improve throughput by reducing downtime, improving safety and ultimately lowering your operating costs.
Goya Foods optimizes distribution network
Find out how Goya Foods tackled growing demand for fast, next-day delivery from a 2,700 SKU inventory moving 60,000-90,000 cases per night with reduced product touches.
Built around you – Nature’s Best
Discover how one of our customers was able to add 33-45% more pick positions, increasing their number of SKUs and revenue per square foot – all without a costly facility expansion.
McCain Foods – serves more
By using opportunity charging, McCain was able to eliminate 10 battery chargers and consolidate their batteries from 60 down to 20 – resulting in cost savings and better facility energy efficiency.
The ROI of robotics
Learn how robotic lift trucks can help address labor challenges and control costs, while driving greater efficiency, productivity and reliability.
Increase slot capacity and picking efficiency
Increasing SKU counts and changing order profiles can prove too much for existing racking and slotting systems. Discover how new slotting strategies, and innovative multi-level lift truck designs can help enable higher performance and lower fulfillment costs.
Impenetrable materials
With increasing efforts to boost sanitation and disinfection – did you know the End Rider uses impenetrable materials on all its touch points?
Unlock cost savings and performance
With the industry’s widest range of power sources from a variety of brands, you can get the very best solution available in today’s market to maximize your operations – unrestricting your choice and a power solution built around your unique requirements for costs, labor, maintenance, emissions, space and more.
Meet Our Industry Expert
Finding the right solution for you, starts by working with a partner who both knows your business and understands what matters most to you.

