Food and beverage fulfillment is a race against shelf life fought with fragile packaging. Fulfillment EZ runs FEFO rotation, lot traceability and fast inventory turns, with packing engineered to get glass bottles and cans to the door intact.
- FEFO rotation to protect remaining shelf life
- Full lot traceability for food safety recalls
- Fragile-safe packing for glass, cans and pouches
- Fast turns and expiry-risk reporting
Shelf life, fragility and weight
Every day inventory sits is shelf life a customer will not get. Slow-moving food stock does not just tie up capital, it becomes unsellable, and the write-off is total rather than discounted.
Packaging compounds the problem: glass bottles and cans are heavy and breakable, which pushes both damage rates and dimensional shipping costs up simultaneously.
- Shelf life consumed by warehouse dwell time
- Breakage risk on glass and pressurized cans
- High weight driving shipping cost per order
- Lot traceability required for food safety response
How we fulfill food and beverage brands
Lot codes and best-by dates are captured at receiving and enforced through FEFO picking, with expiry-risk reporting that flags at-risk inventory while there is still time to move it through promotion or bundling.
Fragile packing configurations are drop-tested per SKU, and damage rates are tracked by SKU and lane so packaging changes are driven by evidence. Dimensional optimization keeps heavy multi-packs in the smallest compliant box.
- Best-by capture and FEFO enforcement
- Drop-tested inner packing for bottles and cans
- Damage-rate reporting by SKU and carrier lane
- Dimensional optimization for heavy multi-packs
Balancing DTC, subscription and wholesale
Most food brands sell direct, on subscription and into retail at the same time. Running all three from one inventory pool avoids holding separate safety stock that ages independently.
Retail orders ship with routing guide compliance and pallet labeling while DTC parcels ship same day, and the dashboard shows how a large wholesale order affects DTC days-of-cover before you accept it.