{"id":47484,"date":"2020-06-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sticky-highjinx.flywheelsites.com\/uncategorized\/castellini-to-ensure-produce-freshness-across-the-supply-chain-with-blue-yonder\/"},"modified":"2022-12-19T08:36:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T13:36:54","slug":"castellini-to-ensure-produce-freshness-across-the-supply-chain-with-blue-yonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envistacorp.com\/en-au\/2020\/06\/03\/castellini-to-ensure-produce-freshness-across-the-supply-chain-with-blue-yonder\/","title":{"rendered":"Castellini to Ensure Produce Freshness Across the Supply Chain with Blue Yonder"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

INDIANAPOLIS – Consumers continue to demand increased freshness and availability from produce suppliers whether it be their local grocer, restaurant, or convenience store. That\u2019s why Castellini<\/a>, the largest distributor of organic produce east of the Mississippi River and a premier service wholesaler since 1905, has selected Blue Yonder, Inc.,<\/a> to help them transform their warehouse capabilities to be able to quickly deliver the right amount of product to these various channels without sacrificing quality. Castellini\u2019s long-time business partner, enVista, will provide the implementation services.<\/p>\n

Castellini provides produce and floral sourcing and delivery; value-add services like packaging, ripening, and sortation; and warehouse and transportation services. The company delivers the highest quality produce from growers and national brands, including more than 400 organic and more than 1,200 conventional produce items. Castellini is expanding its current supply chain services to provide even more customized offerings and programs to its customers, all the while leveraging its robust regional transportation network<\/a> to monitor, track, and trace customer products from pick-up to delivery. To meet the growth in demand for these services, the company is in the process of consolidating several of its warehouse locations into one, state-of-the-art facility. As a result, Castellini had outgrown its legacy warehousing system.<\/p>\n

By implementing Blue Yonder for end-to-end visibility into its supply chain, Castellini will have greater inventory visibility for its customers, operational improvements, expanded value-added service tracking, and better orchestration of warehouse tasks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe choose Blue Yonder to help meet our company\u2019s vision of being an indispensable value at every touchpoint in the supply chain ecosystem. Together with Blue Yonder and enVista we look forward to building and implementing solutions that will help us transform our warehousing capabilities,\u201d said Dan Taylor, chief information officer, Castellini. \u201cBlue Yonder\u2019s solutions will allow us to partner with our customers, growers, and shippers in a more agile, efficient and technologically-advanced way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Castellini will deploy Blue Yonder\u2019s warehouse management, warehouse labour management, and warehouse tasking solutions, which are driven by Blue Yonder\u2019s LuminateTM<\/sup> Platform<\/a>. Powered by Microsoft Azure, the Luminate Platform combines rich internal and external data from across a customer\u2019s digital supply chain assets to allow for smarter, more actionable artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)-based business decisions. Blue Yonder will provide the inventory visibility, optimised coordination of activities and product monitoring Castellini needs to meet customer demands while maintaining profitability.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe team at Castellini was looking for a way to meet their long-term goals as they transitioned their warehouse model while upholding high levels of produce freshness, while reducing food waste. Blue Yonder will help them achieve this, coupled with elevating their capabilities, business and profitability,\u201d said Terry Turner, president, Americas Retail, Blue Yonder. \u201cTogether with enVista, we look forward to implementing this project that offers Castellini proven leading-edge technology allowing for end-to-end supply chain visibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

enVista is leading the Blue Yonder implementation<\/a> project by leveraging advanced technology for virtual design sessions and proof of concept amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The go-live is scheduled for fall 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cenVista brings a wealth of experience with Blue Yonder solutions and a long history of success working with clients on a wide range of supply chain projects. We are pleased to be selected as Castellini\u2019s implementation partner. We look forward to completing this virtual implementation and enabling Castellini to continue offering its vital products to the market,\u201d said Jim Barnes, CEO, enVista.<\/p>\n

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