Food processors and distributors are now being constantly challenged to find ways to improve operational performance, increase sales, tightly control and reduce excess inventory, streamline work-flow and reduce costs, in order to cut the fat from their distribution chain, trim bloated inventories, and reduce the time it takes products to reach consumers.
The food industry has long embraced the concept of just-in-time manufacturing. Many ingredients have short shelf lives and consumer tastes are notoriously fickle. But increasingly, food companies are adopting IT solutions to achieve absolute optimum efficiency, to gain competitive advantage.
On a day-to-day basis, most food processors operate not as one large firm but as a conglomerate of many smaller, independent business units, usually divided along brand-name product lines. Typically, each unit has a high degree of independence, maintaining its own marketing, sales, production, and IT operations.
Qatalys services to the food processing industry are backed by proven experiences in driving IT solutions for some of the largest players in the food processing industry. Moreover the experience in delivering solutions for the retail industry has equipped us with knowledge of fast changing consumer preferences and have a clear understanding of how these can affect the business priorities of food processing industry where the profits are driven by optimizing shelf-life of a product and hence the inventory carrying and warehousing abilities. |
