• Location tracking of goods and vehicles, using GPS and radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, which can speed deliveries and prevent theft.
• Traceability solutions for managing fresh food inventory, including barcode labeling and tagging, food safety tracking, sustainability, pesticide application documentation, and general record keeping.
• Monitoring solutions that check temperature and humidity of food storage and transit environments to ensure that they are kept within the defined range to minimize spoilage. For more information, refer to Pacific Controls Services for Cold Stores
• Pest control and prevention tools that include the use of GPS to track infestations and identify areas at risk and knowledge sharing to provide instant advice on dealing with infestations as they occur.
• Operations and facility management tools that can be used to optimize processes, monitor premises and ensure that food moves swiftly from producer to consumer.

Pacific Controls Managed Service for food distribtion enables:

• Vehicle Tracking Solutions that allow fleet managers to see the real time location of an entire fleet of vehicles on a web browser screen at any time. Detailed fleet records accurately record each vehicle's activities throughout the day, including:
  • Duration of each job delivery or stop
  • Identifying when inefficient routes are being used
  • Identifying vehicle usage out of business hours
  • Monitoring exact times that vehicles enter and leave key job sites
  • Identifying stops at non-work-related sites
  • Ability to track stolen vehicles and to instigate fastest recovery of the vehicle
  • Analyze excessive speed, harsh braking and harsh acceleration for each driver in order to improve fuel efficiency and reduce the risk of accidents.
• Monitoring of Refrigeration Equipment on Vehicles: By undertaking monitoring of refrigeration pressures, temperature ranges, compressor oil pressures, defrost/heat/over hear, air supply and numerous other parameters, Pacific Controls’ Managed Service help ensure that food arrives at destination in safe condition and there is no wastage in transit.
• Remote monitoring of various vehicle parameters ensure that there are no breakdowns while food is in transit.
• Data mining and forecasting tools that allow projection of demand from the history of units shipped, the weather and holiday dates, which help to optimize this critical processes

Key Benefits:

• Provides complete picture from Pacific Controls GCCC, showing the location of goods and vehicles.
• Early warning of a machine breakdown enables predictive maintenance, thereby helping avoid unwanted incidents while food is in transit.
• Helps enhance work flows, and hence improve distribution efficiency.
• Operation and maintenance cost is reduced through proactive monitoring.
• Remote troubleshooting reduces maintenance costs further.
• Minimizes the risk of food wastage during transit.

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