Freezer temps get logged by hand every two hours — when the compressor dies at 2 AM, you find out at sunrise with a whole room of thawed product.
Cold Chain Food
You deal in frozen and chilled food — one break in the cold chain and the whole batch is scrap. Expiry dates and temperature logs are your lifeline.
The three biggest headaches
FIFO depends entirely on worker goodwill — new stock lands in front of old, and near-expiry goods get tossed by the case.
A customer asks for a full temperature trace — you spend three days stitching spreadsheets and still come up two gaps short.
Recommended apps, in rollout order
- WMS · WarehousingPhone-guided receiving, putaway, picking, packing, shipping, and counts — mistakes blocked at every step.
- TMS · Transport ManagementPlan, dispatch, track live, capture PODs, and reconcile freight — office and drivers in sync.
- Purchase · PurchasingFrom request to approved PO to planned arrival — no more guessing what’s coming in.
A typical day
- 1
Morning: the temperature board is all green — a small overnight fluctuation was auto-logged with affected batches flagged.
- 2
Midday: inbound scan captures expiry dates automatically, and the system directs the forklift to the right slot by FEFO.
- 3
Afternoon: picks pull only the nearest-expiry batches; anything within 30 days auto-alerts, and a promo list is already with sales.
- 4
Before clock-out: export the temperature-and-batch traceability report and send it to the key account in one click — compliance no longer means all-nighters.