Industry features:
Foods are usually perishable and must be kept fresh, so food storage and transportation must be done under controlled temperatures.
Food supply chain is a typical functional product supply chain. It must be designed to maintain the minimum cost through smooth integrated operation of purchasing, production and distribution. It must focus on strategic promotion and storage issues based on estimated volumes. The economies of scale in the industry should be considered, and capacity utilization and inventory turnover will be the efficiency indications. Therefore, a food logistics service must satisfy the requirements of food diversification and fast delivery, food safety control and scale economy. A uniform, stable and smooth supply chain is very important for companies selling food. This is the company’s valued resource which is rare and cannot be easily duplicated, one of its core abilities.

Food products are very diversified, so the logistics of distribution and sale of foods is even more complex and challenging. For a food company, it is the best to outsource their logistics to a third party logistics company (3PL). Therefore, the company’s management can focus on its core competitiveness and reduce its logistics cost through the economies of scale available from 3PL.

HLS logistics solution:
Drawing on our experiences of cooperation with different international and domestic food companies, HLS offers comprehensive, all-process and integrated solutions in logistics consulting and operations, including food supply and distribution logistics.

HLS has advanced warehouse, inventory and transport management systems as well as an efficient physical management team and professional logistics service system. Our JIT distribution system and cross-docking modes guarantees timely delivery of fresh food and also provides solid logistics operational support to diversified, mass production of food industry as well as the diversified and small batch demand of customers.

The management reports offered by HLS systems, such as inventory aging analysis report and expiration management reports; can make analysis of your inventory easy. We also offer professional inventory management advice for food enterprises, and help them to reduce inventory carrying cost. HLS systems can link with your supplier’s or customer’s automatic ordering system, and their sale and inventory system through EDI to enhance the visibility of inventory in the supply chain, which will help you to realize automatic and timely replenishment of needed stock and enhance customer satisfaction and on time deliveries.

HLS has a multi-level logistics distribution network, covering most first and second level cities in the country. HLS helps food enterprises to deliver required raw materials to the factory and also to deliver finished products to retailers, wholesalers, and even consumers all over the country.

HLS can also provide customers of food industry with value-added services like processing and packaging. Relying on the new technologies and equipments, HLS offers warehousing, delivery and transportation services for products with a strict storage requirement and strict expiration management (such as infant milk powder). At the same time, HLS understands your company’s requirements for GMP, GSP and HACCP, and offers solutions through the high-quality logistics services you require.

Moreover, through cooperation with the distribution companies in HWL group, HLS also provides support for food companies to expand their sale channels and increase their market share.