Warehouse & Receivers
Warehouse receivers, handlers and drivers are the keys that make your fresh produce program successful. You can go through all the exacting effort to procure the best possible produce available, but if your operations staff are not properly trained, if might be all for not! Your shrink can increase dramatically and your can experience a significant reduction in quality without “Produce Trained Staff”. Few product categories that move through your warehouse and distribution network will vary as much in quality, price and supply as your fresh produce category. We have provided in-depth training to a wide range of Retail and Foodservice operations staff. We conduct highly effective training programs on how to receive and store produce, how to select and stage produce, and how to handle produce on the distribution truck through to delivery to your customers. Following is a sampling of our warehouse and operations training programs, all of which can be highly customized to meet your unique needs:
- General product knowledge to reduce shrink
- Basic receiving, handling, storage and selection best practices
- How to reduce warehousing and distribution related fresh produce shrink
- Maintaining the cold chain
- Maintaining food safety and traceability systems
- Driver excellence in delivery high quality fresh produce
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