One of the world’s largest manufacturers of own label fresh prepared foods to the retail sector has reinforced its commitment to Pooling Partners by increasing the number of pallets it uses to deliver produce to customers by 25 per cent.
The new deal with Europe’s leading integrated manufacturer and pooler of pallets increases Bakkavor’s demand from 1.6 million to two million units as part of the Group’s incremental retail growth which has seen it become market leader in 11 of its 16 UK product categories. Pooling Partners which manufactures and repairs 20 million pallets every year has retained the contract since 2009 and offers a ‘trade direct’ palletised service to help Bakkavor cost-effectively move products such as soups, salads and dips to its retail customers.
As part of the sustainable ‘circular economy’ which retrieves, repairs and re-uses pallets, ‘trade direct’ takes pallets directly from retail units to Bakkavor at a reduced cost to speed up the process and eradicate so-called ‘empty running’, the wasteful transport miles used on the return leg.
Using Pooling Partners, Bakkavor – which has a portfolio of over 5000 different fresh food products – has reduced its rejection rate to just 1.3 per cent meaning that more fresh produce gets through to customers on time without any supply chain delays.
Terry Moore, Bakkavor’s Logistics General Manager, said: “We have been very satisfied with the Pooling Partner model of ‘trade direct’ because they manage it to minimise the rejection rate whilst ensuring we can maximise deliveries to meet time-sensitive deadlines, at a cost-effective rate.”
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