Salinas, CA (November 4, 2024) — Inteligistics continues to deliver efficiency gains and drive the digital transformation of the perishables supply chain with a new focus on monitoring and reducing field-to-chill cut times.

“The time between harvest and chilling is critical to determining product quality, safety and shelf life, especially for high-value, perishable crops such as berries and leafy greens,” said Gary Fleming, CEO of Inteligistics. “From field tickets to receiving records, most companies use a cumbersome manual process to track product before it reaches the warehouse or processing facility for pre-cooling, making it difficult to identify bottlenecks and problems.”

InteliField provides the foundation for Inteligistics data collection and management, which helps manage transport from field to chiller or processing facility to optimize chiller reduction times. Digital tickets that can be created automatically in the Inteligistics app by the driver or at a pre-configured in-unit kiosk and integrated into a customer’s ERP or WMS system are just the beginning.

InteliField is a proven, robust and flexible system that can incorporate multiple data streams. Wireless tracking systems and a localized geofencing system can track each field truck as it moves through the facility, identifying patterns, blockages and problems with individual loads.

The addition of GPS-enabled OBDII sensors tracks a truck’s location minute by minute from field to facility, adding critical truck maintenance information reported in real time. In addition, time and temperature sensors attached to pallets in the field (ideally the first and last pallet of each load) provide accurate tracking of the environmental conditions of products as they move from the field to the cooler.

“Many companies already collect large amounts of data, often from manual labels or records entered into massive spreadsheets. The key to using this data to quickly respond to potential problems and identify opportunities for systemic improvement is being able to instantly see the data in a way that highlights what’s important,” said Lawrence Mallia, VP Digital Transformation at Inteligistics. “Our reports, dashboards and alerts provide invaluable, real-time insights so stakeholders can recognize what needs immediate attention, what’s working, what’s not working and what can be improved.”

Studies have shown that an hour of delay at 70F or higher can mean the loss of a day or more of shelf life. Using InteliField to gain better product visibility and tracking can provide data to help companies better understand their harvesting, field transportation and cooling operations. This identifies problems and inconsistencies to enable companies to take action to optimize and streamline their processes. This can have a substantial effect on product freshness and quality, allowing companies to sell and deliver more products at the optimal price.

From a transportation perspective alone, tracking off-road truck information can help better manage dwell time, idle time, and mileage, producing savings of hundreds of dollars per truck per month. For companies with dozens of trucks and thousands of loads per year, the savings can be substantial.

InteliField, along with Inteligistics’ revolutionary 1-Click FSMA 204 reporting and InteliView digital data platform, are part of the suite of innovative applications developed by Inteligistics to help and accelerate the digital transformation of agriculture. The result is access to better information and insights, leading to substantial efficiency gains, reduced waste, improved product quality and increased profits.

For more information on Inteligistics, visit https://www.intelligistics.com.

About Intelligence
Inteligistics is uniquely positioned in the perishables industries, using Silicon Valley technology and process improvements to drive digital transformation, turn Big Data into clear actions through AI/ML, and deliver high-value performance improvements supply chain and cold chain for perishable goods. The resulting increase in productivity and reduction in critical cold reduction times, resources help meet sustainability goals. Using IoT, standard wireless hardware and proprietary cloud-based applications, Inteligistics develops customized solutions and provides an end-to-end integrated supply chain platform and independent applications that improve quality, throughput, increase profits and deliver high ROI on critical process of moving the product from the field to the consumer. Visit intelligistics.com and linkedin.com/company/intelligistics.

Contact:
Lawrence Mallia
(831) 233-2652
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