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At J. Ambrogi Foods, we believe the value we bring goes beyond being your supplier but also your business partner. Through continued conversation and feedback, we will work to customize our services to meet your personal and business needs.
Recently, during the Covid crisis, a chef was explaining that because of the reduced dining volumes, her staff schedules had changed dramatically. As a result, she had no one at the facility during her regular delivery window. She was concerned that she could not accurately predict what her schedules would be and asked if she could request a different delivery time with each order. Since delivery times are committed to customers, it would be difficult to change the delivery time with each order. However, after further discussion, it was decided that her delivery would be sent to a secure part of her facility early in the morning. This secure type of delivery, frequently called a “key drop,” enabled our driver to place the order within her facility before 6 AM every morning, with the invoice sent digitally. A reconciliation process was established in case the invoice and delivered order did not match. The strength of our routing systems, driver procedures and warehouse operations enabled J. Ambrogi Foods to implement this solution in less than a week, which solved the chef’s immediate concerns.
A customer recently approached us to help solve a logistics challenge they were experiencing. They were implementing a “grab and go” option in many of their cafeterias as a reaction to changing consumer patterns, largely driven by the Covid crisis. Since deliveries were already regularly made to these locations, they asked for help with the “last mile” of these deliveries. The solution required that we cross-dock dozens of orders each day, integrate those orders with our existing orders, and load them onto our routes for each cafeteria’s “normal” order. The combination of J. Ambrogi Foods’ warehouse layout, management systems and routing capabilities enabled them to implement this solution quickly and effectively for the customer.
A restaurant in Greater Philadelphia was starting to encounter product efficiency problems because their longtime dough vendor changed their distribution policy. Because their pizza was infamous for their dough, changing vendors was not an option. As a result, the owner was forced to purchase a two week supply of dough, causing issues with storage, food safety and waste across all their locations. The solutions implemented to address their concern:
After learning of this issue, J. Ambrogi Foods’ team formulated a plan to take ownership of the dough distribution process. As a result, J. Ambrogi handled the order placement, inventory, storage, and delivery of the dough to their five locations. Our expansive freezer space and advanced inventory process allowed us to store two months’ worth of pizza dough to distribute to each location daily; saving the owner storage space for fresh produce and from losses incurred from wasted dough.