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Food and Beverage Shipping, Logistics, and Supply Chain Solutions

FourKites delivers the real-time supply chain visibility that food and beverage shippers need to eliminate waste from their operations and better serve their customers.

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Discover Why 18 of the Top-20 Global F&B Shippers Rely on FourKites

With the largest network of logistics tracking data and proprietary machine learning technology, FourKites’ real-time visibility platform powers data-driven insights and proactive risk management on your food and beverage shipments.

Improve Customer Satisfaction: Deliver on time and in full, and give your customers full visibility along the way, with delivery notifications and live tracking dashboards.
Lower Operating Costs: In food and beverage transportation, charges add up quickly. FourKites helps you minimize those risks by reducing dwell, optimizing labor planning and preventing product loss on temperature-controlled shipments.
Reduce Waste: Eliminate wasted staff time on status calls and at the loading dock, with real-time notifications and unprecedented ETA accuracy for incoming deliveries.

Challenges Facing Food & Beverage Shippers

OTIF Requirements

Tight Delivery Windows

Long Dwell Times

Sensitive Inventory

A Platform Built for Food & Beverage

FourKites is the only solution that gives you true end-to-end visibility with predictive ETAs and real-time status for shipments on the road and in the yard. No more workarounds and siloed systems… just agility, efficiency and beautiful collaboration.

Transportation Visibility

Transform your supply chain with the largest global real-time visibility platform.

Yard Visibility

Streamline facilities – the only yard management solution with real-time visibility of in-yard and in-transit freight and integrated appointment management.

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Ocean Visibility

Go beyond container tracking with the only solution that combines international booking support, document management, collaboration and true end-to-end visibility.

Inbound Visibility

Connect to the largest network of shippers and get unparalleled visibility to your pre-paid and collect inbound freight.

Predictive Visibility for an Industry Where Timing is Everything

Know exactly where your shipments are, pinpoint when they’ll arrive and see risks before they impact your delivery.

FourKites’ market-leading visibility solutions enable seamless collaboration and precise supply chain orchestration in an industry where minutes matter.
From internal moves to customer deliveries, FourKites gives a single-pane-of glass view into all your transportation operations.
Eliminate data siloes with FourKites’ real-time visibility platform, and collaborate seamlessly with your partners to streamline processes, build stronger relationships and improve service levels.

Unparalleled Value for F&B Shippers

65%

Within just three months, C&S Wholesale’s customer service teams reported a 65% decrease in check calls.

$59K

One of the nation’s largest food distributors has reduced YTD detention costs by $59,000 by using FourKites.

↓21%

Land O’Lakes reduced median dwell time by 21% per load within 3 months.

Collaborative Visibility for Next-Generation Supply Chain Orchestration

Your competitive advantage lies in your ability to see into every corner of your supply chain — both for managed and vendor-managed inbound freight. FourKites delivers unprecedented visibility and data transparency on every load that matters to you.

Optimize dock utilization and reduce detention with complete inbound visibility.
Minimize safety stock and improve forecasting with live tracking and predictive ETAs for inbound inventory.
Reduce check calls with customizable status and event notifications.

Don’t Just Identify Spoilage — Prevent it with Advanced Temperature Tracking

F&B shippers who manage temperature-sensitive goods now have the tools they need to stay ahead of spoiled inventory or damaged customer relationships.

Create targeted notifications using customizable temperature requirements, variance thresholds and alert settings.
Share tracking and temperature data with customers.
Proactively intervene when load temperatures fall above or below thresholds, minimizing lost product and wasted travel time.
Maintain compliance with historical records of temperature data, and analyze trends by region, product type or carrier.

How Land O’ Lakes Reduced Dwell and Improved Service

Using FourKites in conjunction with its existing logistics partnerships, Land O’Lakes reduced median dwell time by 21% per load in just three months. Monitoring the impact of load volume on dwell time and digitizing check-in procedures were both major components of the company’s success.

In addition to dwell time improvement, Land O’ Lakes improved customer service by growing user engagement with FourKites across its food and agribusiness operations.