Cutting Costs With Smart Reusable Plastic Containers

IFCO teams up with Real Time Intelligence to unlock hidden efficiencies, and help create a more sustainable supply chain with reusable plastic containers.

Automation in the fresh produce sector is standard fare these days. What may not be so standard are the containers that get the produce from farm to market. The quality of produce containers has a direct impact on the quality of the produce—and maximizing profit margins for produce distributors and retailers. As a produce retailer’s operation scales up, the need for reliable containers grows respectively. Standardized containers, such as IFCO’s reusable plastic containers (RPC), can be a significant advantage for automated logistics centers that might be handling more than a million containers every month. Even the smallest deviation of a few millimeters in reusable plastic container size can create cascading issues…

 

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