In 2004, John Tentomas and his cousin Phillip began a frozen fruit and veg company from John’s basement, packing their very first order themselves from a rented room in a warehouse. 🥕 🍒 🍍
Today, Nature's Touch Frozen Foods is a leading frozen food manufacturer, driven by a passion for delivering high-quality, delicious and nutritious products to its customers.
In the May 2024 edition of CHAIN Magazine, I spoke to Edouard Ades, MBA, MPM, VP of Supply Chain at Nature’s Touch about the company’s journey to optimise its supply chain with a focus on sustainable practice.
Édouard described to me the growth of the frozen food category in recent years and explained how the company has built an end-to-end supply chain in order to further develop its operations.
“Since I joined, my mandate has been to optimise the supply chain operations and streamline the processes and workstreams,” shared Edouard. “As a starter, focusing and implementing a sales and operations planning (S&OP) process to align all stakeholders into a common plan. This drives efficiencies in the operating model from planning to distribution and it reinforces the supply chain integration within all functional teams and stakeholders to ensure the success of our operations while servicing the customers (the retailers) and consumers accordingly.
“Transportation was also a big piece of the puzzle in reviewing the area of opportunities on how we can move products in a much more efficient way. This is from the container drayage to the last mile delivery while optimising our internal movements as well, from the plant to a 3PL or vice versa, or from a plant to another plant. We had to align on a plan and define the proper transportation lead time so we could balance the transfers by going over the road and intermodal as well.”
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With thanks to project partners First Cut Produce, Inc., Cloverdale Cold Storage Ltd. and KlearNow.AI.
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