LIDD Wins NetSuite’s Summer 2024 Alliance Partner Spotlight Award for Sustainability
LIDD Consultants Recognized by NetSuite as Summer 2024 Alliance Partner Spotlight Award Winner for S...
By Charles Fallon
July 2019 | 3 min read
Our client is one of Korea’s largest food retailers operating convenience and grocery store formats as well as a network of distribution centers to support online retail. Supporting these offline and online channels, the company operates a complex supply chain including their own distribution and food production sites.
Meal kits have become a world-wide phenomenon over the last few years. Our clients realized that several features in the Korean market created a strong potential for rapid adoption of meal kits:
Our client engaged LIDD with the mandate to provide strategic advice on the critical features of a meal kit operation:
In essence, our client asked LIDD to recommend the supply chain infrastructure required to successfully launch and operate this meal kit business.
LIDD projects begin with a data gathering phase. Normally, this includes detailed transactional data that allows LIDD to build a complete, 52-week long model of the supply chain. In this case, our client had only launched a prototype operation and therefore had limited data available.
Still, there was sufficient data to characterize the nature of the meal kitting operation which consists of two manufacturing steps:
Furthermore, the data allowed LIDD to characterize the profile of orders and relative popularity of different meals. Using the shelf life of various ingredients and their daily usage, we could also model inventories.
LIDD used this data to create a model of the manufacturing and fulfillment operations. With that model, LIDD created an efficient layout to execute the entire meal kit business.
LIDD then defined the IT systems needed to support the operation. These systems direct workers through various kinds of manufacturing, followed by advanced picking and shipping functions. IT systems for meal kits are unusual because they require a broad range of execution capabilities and sophisticated data structures. LIDD also helped our client create a product development process for new meal kits. This adapted product development techniques to the meal kit and included steps such as:
Our client implemented our recommendations immediately and went live in a new meal-kit facility within three months of our projects conclusion. The business has been able to grow rapidly while keeping the operations well-controlled and productive.
New meal kits have been developed following rigorous process that controls the supply chain costs of new product introductions while keeping current with consumer trends.
LIDD Consultants Recognized by NetSuite as Summer 2024 Alliance Partner Spotlight Award Winner for S...
Discover how LIDD's NetSuite Supply Chain integration saved a luxury apparel company 27% in OpEx.
A rapidly growing intimate care brand in the beauty industry, valued at $15MM, recognized the necess...
An American food manufacturer was struggling to scale its business because of unintegrated technolog...
A Toronto based organic grocer operating four grocery stores and a distribution centre.
Business is booming and the warehouse is bustling with activity. For some reason, however, productiv...
A D2C hemp producer/CBD products manufacturer needs a solution to go live in just 14 weeks to enable...
In March of last year, LIDD was hired by a major New Hampshire food distributor to help perform a co...
The measures put in place to slow down the progression of Covid-19 have brought many challenges for...
Our client is a rapidly growing foodservice distributor offering a wide range of dry, fresh and froz...
Our client, a food manufacturer making a variety of sauces, came to us for help implementing a Wareh...
Discover crucial Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for assessing and optimizing distribution center...
The leading manufacturer of bedding products in the United States serves all major US retailers thro...
A large convenience store retailer serving locations across the Northeast from a 400,000 sq.ft. DC o...
By Charles Fallon November 7, 2017 | 2 min read This LIDD Case study shares how LIDD’s supply...
By Charles Fallon August 23, 2017| 4 min read This case study shares how LIDD’s supply chain...
By Charles Fallon August 14, 2017 | 4 min read When business is expanding, it’s easy to be lu...
LIDD study reveals significant infrastructure investments needed for SAQ to manage glass bottle recy...
By Charles Fallon July 27, 2017 | 3 min read Re-engineering a pick line to optimize warehouse...
By Charles Fallon July 21, 2017 | 2 min read Warehouse storage capacity constraints can arise...
LIDD study reveals significant infrastructure investments needed for SAQ to manage glass bottle recy...