Food

We Streamline your Food Business

We optimize routes, negotiate rates, and unlock efficiencies for a competitive edge.

Streamliners optimize supply chains for efficiency and cost savings.

Optimize production flow to reduce waste and improve speed with layout redesign, conveying , and pull systems.

Optimize assembly for faster production & lower labor costs.

Optimize plant layouts for new builds, expansions, or lean material flow improvement.

Project History:

Selected Reference Projects:

Project	Duration	Bottom Line Impact
Headcount reduction for German food company	12 weeks	20 - 25%
Planning and inventory optimization	12 weeks	15 - 20%
Design supply chain Georgia - France - USA	4 weeks	15 - 25%

Application: Planning and Inventory Optimization


Industry:	US Baby Food Distributor
Company Size:	100+
Project Location:	United States
Problem Statement:	Our customer is a leading distributor for organic baby food. Due to substantial growth over the past 2 years, inventory levels have been significantly increased. At the same time, our customer has been experiencing an increase in customer orders backlog and expired product in stock - both of which turned into a financial fiasco. If our customer wouldn't be able to improve their demand planning, drastically reduce inventory levels and thus, avoid product expiration, their business model would collapse within 6 months.

STREAMLINERS’ Approach and Solution


Meeting:	Understanding of current forecasting and demand planning methodology, key supplier locations and average shelf lives of products
Deep Dive:	Comprehensive analysis of forecasting methodology, qualitative and quantitative sales input, A-B-C analysis, customer order system and routines; conceptual design of future supply chain including optimized routings, means of transportation, expedite/emergency service and minimum order quantities
Hypothesis:	If we optimize inventory levels to fulfill 80% of the customer orders from the warehouse stock and completely avoid product expiration (write offs), an incremental amount of the savings can be spent on expedited rush orders to fulfill hot orders from the remaining 20% (if needed).
Project:	1 consultant 8 weeks
Deliverables:	Forecasting accuracy improved on high runners Inventory min./max. levels optimized for top 80% of SKUs Inventory levels drastically reduced to avoid product expiration New transportation means and routings implemented to reduce transit times
Bottom Line Impact:	Avoidance of write offs due to product expiration >$300K Reduction of inventory levels and working capital >$800K

Days On Hand (DOH) Strategy

Fees vs. Bottom Line Impact