Case Study: Fresh Food Distribution





















industry

fresh food distributor

($2 billion revenue)

business challenge

to identify the primary factors that were driving costs to climb and margins to erode






solution

product analysis

descriptive • diagnostic analytics
supply chain • finance • sales

data governance • organize and tie together data by each supply chain component • analyze profitability of each SKU

  • reduced

    costs by re-architect Customer Delivery routes



  • explored

    conversion of some Free-On-Board (FOB) Inbound Transportation to managed transportation



  • addressed

    negative margin position of specific SKUs



  • identified

    supply chain-related Data Quality issues




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