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Why Supply Chain Visibility is Essential for Food Retail
Successful food retailing is a complex operation that starts long before product arrives at the store. For instance, a pivotal point in this process is the transfer of product from transport vehicles to a grocer’s warehouse. Why? Because temperature-sensitive foods deteriorate quickly if not stored promptly in refrigerated areas upon delivery.
Of course, the flow of food across the supply chain encompasses a multitude of similar points of contact requiring timely action to maintain food safety, quality, and availability. In this post, we take a look at why end-to-end transparency, also known as “supply chain visibility,” is a must for the modern grocer and food retailer.
Supply chain visibility (SCV) is essentially an inventory logistics strategy that tracks, monitors, and records the flow of food (e.g., raw materials, assembled components, and final products) as it travels across every node in a supply chain network: from farm to fork, from production to consumption, from retail store to individual customer.
SCV is powered by IoT-enabled Sensing-as-a-Service technologies and software, which provide real-time data about the “what, where, and when” of your supply chain:
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