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SPECIAL REPORT Top [1] 10 [2] 22 MARCH 2012 • FOOD LOGISTICS
Our annual list of companies whose forward thinking is worth recognizing. By LARA L. SOWINSKI
Logistics Innovators
Sustainability Soars at US Foods US Foods' new rooftop solar installation at its Perth-
Amboy, NJ distribution center will supply nearly 85 percent of the Metro New York division's annual energy consumption by July 2012. The solar installation is the fourth for this foodservice giant. Once the installation is complete, the solar panels will generate more than 10 million kilowatt hours of energy per year, which is enough to power more than 870 average American homes for an entire year. In addition to the Metro New York division facility, US Foods recently installed solar panels at its distribution centers in La Mirada, California; Phoenix, Arizona; and San Francisco. US Foods is pursuing sustainability in other areas. For one, the com- pany is also certified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a SmartWay Partner. In fact, the company's initiatives on the transportation side of the business, including reduced idling times, more efficient rout- ing of deliveries, and more energy efficient lighting has saved the com- pany more than $22 million in energy and fuel costs.
It celebrated its 75th anniver- sary in 2011. "We've built our company on maximizing our sales by neighborhood, and that approach has worked very well since 1936," says Peter Unanue, executive vice president of operations and logistics. "But as Goya has expanded, that targeted sales strategy has added incredible diversity to our product line. In just the last five years, the number of SKUs that we carry has grown by 60 percent. That diver- sity gives us a significant competitive advantage, but it also has added a lot of supply chain complexity," he explains. Goya chose several solutions from JDA Software to help eliminate manual processes and more efficiently manage its demand and fulfillment processes. Four different JDA solutions were implemented, including JDA
Demand, JDA Demand Classification, JDA Fulfillment, and JDA Order Optimization. In addition, the process was supported by JDA's Education, Implementation, and Support Services, along with JDA Per- formance Engineering. "We found JDA solutions to be highly configurable, both in their functionality and user interfaces—although the solutions are very sophis- ticated and powerful in running algorithms in the background," says Unanue. "The people who were assigned to our project from JDA got to know our business, and that enabled them to configure the system in a way that fits our needs."
Goya Foods Brings More Technology to the Table
Goya Foods, Inc., the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the U.S., is a leader in Latin American food and condiments. The company manufactures, packages, and distributes over 1,600 high-quality food products from the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central and South America.
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Wringing Out Supply Chain Costs at P&G;
Procter & Gamble announced last month that it would cut $4.5 bil-
lion from its supply chain as part of a larger plan to cut $10 billion in overall costs.
The supply chain savings will come from reductions in raw materials,
transportation, and warehousing costs, says P&G;'s CEO Bob McDonald. "We're working to create substitute materials that deliver the perfor-
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