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Ensure compliance, minimize waste, and enhance efficiency with tailored supply chain solutions.

In the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries, supply chains are becoming increasingly complex. These sectors are tasked with the societally critical mission to ensure that food reaches the table and that medicines are available at people’s homes, all while navigating global disruptions and fluctuating demand.

Current trends and challenges:

  • Perishable products: Managing varying shelf lives and ensuring compliance with safety regulations.
  • Regulatory requirements: Strict rules around food and drug safety must be met.
  • Customer diversity: Serving both large retailers and small businesses requires flexibility.
  • Competitive market: Low margins and high distribution costs make operational efficiency critical.
  • Process manufacturing: Yield variability due to season, harvest, and quality factors requires careful planning.

 

Our solutions

Our solutions are designed to address the unique demands of the food, beverage, and pharmaceuticals industries. We help streamline supply chain processes, reduce waste, and ensure compliance with industry regulations.

Inventory planning

Our inventory planning solution offers collaborative tools to manage short planning cycles and fluctuating demand. This allows you to minimize waste and inventory costs while preventing shortages.

By sharing forecasts and purchase plans with suppliers and internal teams, we simplify purchasing decisions and automate processes to reduce complexity.

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Order & inventory management

Our order and inventory management system offers configurable customer and order priority rules, ensuring that the most important customers are served first. Flexible pricing models and agreements support different customer segments. The platform allows for seamless order, delivery, and billing processes, while batch tracking and tracing ensure regulatory compliance. You’ll also gain visibility across multiple sites and channels for streamlined multi-channel distribution.

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Warehouse management

Our warehouse management solution includes date-driven allocation rules to maximize shelf life and reduce waste. It ensures temperature control for perishable goods and supports cross-docking for short lead times and consolidated shipments. Large throughput volumes and high turnover are managed efficiently through optimized resource utilization and warehouse automation, driving both efficiency and compliance. The system can also interact with route and load optimization solutions to further streamline logistics.

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Transportation management

With our transportation solution, you can seamlessly integrate carrier services, including bookings, labeling, and tracking. Freight cost control is enhanced through automated invoice management and posting, while environmental impact analysis helps you maintain sustainable logistics practices. The system allows for easy integration with external carriers, as well as your own or contracted fleets, and automatically produces all required transport documentation to streamline operations.

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Quality control

Ensuring high-quality standards is essential in the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries. Our quality control solution integrates deviation reporting and issue management, making proactive error resolution a key part of the logistics process. Claims and returns are managed systematically, providing visibility and control to ensure smooth operations and customer satisfaction.
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Why choose us?

Our extensive experience in the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical sectors allows us to offer tailored solutions that meet the strict requirements of these industries. We help you minimize waste, improve operational efficiency, and ensure regulatory compliance.

  • Compliance: Full support for safety regulations in food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries.
  • Waste reduction: Date-driven inventory and warehouse management systems to reduce waste and optimize shelf life.
  • Efficiency: Streamlined order processing, transportation management, and warehouse automation for faster, more efficient operations.
  • Sustainability: Tools to analyze and reduce the environmental impact of your supply chain.
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With the IMI WMS™ solution we can provide a tailored and localized distribution service that makes it easy for our clients to reach and serve the Norwegian customers.
Sigrid Hov Fodnaess
IT Director at Norsk Medisinaldepot & Regioinal CIO for Scandinavia at McKesson Europe

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