P.PSH.1376 - Faster, Fresher Flows in red meat processing

Summary

This proposal seeks to customise TilliT, an open-source software application designed to achieve faster, fresher flows in food processing and logistics specific to red meat. The goal of the project is to reduce the order cycle time to retail shelf by one day, reducing store markdowns by 10%, releasing latent outbound capacity by 17%, while also optimising pallet and layer efficiencies to reduce transport costs and greenhouse gas emissions. The general business rules and methodologies employed will be available to share with the wider red meat industry through a final report.

Objectives

• Develop a license free, open-source application tailored for red meat order management utilising Nukon’s TilliT application suite powered by such applications as Camunda, Grafana, InfluxDB and AWS.

• Reduction of one day out of the order cycle between customer order, to production execution, to delivery to store from the distribution center.

• Integration between the customer and multiple secondary processing suppliers for store orders to production execution, pick order optimisation, truck load optimisation, and coordination between processors and stores in order to select the best processor based on criteria such as price, packaging format, shelf-life, machine availability etc.

• Data integration with 3rd party storage providers to increase inbound capacity.

Key findings

• The benefit of one day out of the order cycle for RROA was achievable without the other suppliers being integrated.
• The Faster Fresher Flows initiative showed that the strategy of employing license free, open-source development applications, was a very cost-effective way of developing a tailored red meat application stack that integrates store orders to secondary processors, production execution and pick order optimisation at the processor, truck load optimisation, and coordination between processors and stores in order to select the best processor based on criteria such as price, packaging format, shelf life, machine availability etc.
• Any other proprietary suppliers can leverage this approach to achieve faster, fresher, flows.

Benefits to industry

This project will reduce the order cycle time to retail shelf by one day, reducing store markdowns, releasing latent outbound capacity by 17% while also optimising pallet and layer efficiencies to reduce transport costs and greenhouse gas emissions. TilliT’s open-source suite of applications and general business rules and methodologies will be available to share with the wider red meat industry.

MLA action

Communication to industry

Future research

NA