Customer client: Fortune 100 food and beverage manufacturer
About the project: A multi-national food and beverage manufacturer, distributor, and bottler desperately needed a one-stop food-grade 3PL warehouse in Atlanta that could handle raw, hazardous ingredients and cold chain temperatures imported from Asia and Europe. Porter Logistics was hired to execute daily shuttles, handle imports, and relabel core ingredients for batch and lot tracking. Porter also received finished goods from the plant needed to fulfill customer orders with daily LTL and FTL shipments. The client also needed to consolidate three underperforming 3PLs in it's network under one roof.
Solution: To proactively address these issues, Porter Logistics sent a project manager out to the company’s current industrial space for two weeks to work on inventory reconciliation issues and define processes for the project. Working with the logistics and senior operations manager, Porter allocated 7,000 pallet spaces for the client and set up teams responsible for inbounding, relabeling, and outbound order fulfillment to this client’s customers. Porter also passed strict internal quality inspections in addition to maintaining it’s Top 5% percentile AIB GMP scores certifying the quality of its food-grade programs. Using its flame rooms for flammable ingredients and cold rooms for more sensitive products, Porter was able to provide a one-stop shop for its client.
Results: Porter Logistics is integral to the food and beverage manufacturers' ability to hit growth targets and expanding scale seamlessly with existing operations. Being able to unite multiple lines of business, held across multiple 3PLs and across multiple temperature ranges and certifications, has been a game-changer, saving millions of dollars in freight costs and reducing the complexity of the operation, which led to greater accuracy and on-time shipping. Porter Logistics' technology platform allowed the client to have a clear picture of what inventory was in the Porter warehouse in Atlanta at any one time and enabled seamless inbound and outbound requests with minimal manual work.
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