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Asset Management in Fresh Food: With EPC/RFID, Kibun gains visibility on location of its trolleys

The Kibun Group operates a diverse array of businesses, all centered on chilled food, and principally surimibased products.
Asset Management in Fresh Food: With EPC/RFID, Kibun gains visibility on location of its trolleys

Headquartered in Japan, the group’s 3100 employees strive to not only respond to consumer demands for tasty and safe food, but also to anticipate them. Kibun recorded sales of ¥101,000 million last year.

To transport ingredients and products across their supply and distribution chain, the company uses wheeled metal cage trolleys that travel from location to location. But these trolleys were not being capitalised as a company asset, and Kibun teams noticed that too many of these cage trolleys were being lost. Worse, the missing trolleys were generating both costs and delays. When workers didn’t have enough trolleys, new ones had to be purchased; and in some locations insufficient trolleys were causing delays in shipping. This is a problem in any business, but in fresh food, shipping delays are particularly problematic.

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