Shelf-stable food and beverage fulfillment with FIFO rotation, expiry date monitoring, lot tracking, FDA-aware labeling, and breakage-resistant packout. From Los Angeles.
Food and beverage fulfillment has higher consequences than apparel. Expired product can't ship. Recalls happen. Broken bottles ruin entire shipments. We handle shelf-stable food and beverage with the operational discipline of an FDA-regulated category — because that's what it is.
First-in-first-out is enforced at the bin level. Older lots ship before newer lots, every time. No 'we'll get to it eventually' — the WMS routes pickers to the right lot automatically.
Every lot has an expiry date in the WMS. The system flags any SKU with expiry under 60 days for review. Short-dated inventory either ships fast (discount channel, sample programs) or gets pulled before it expires.
If FDA or USDA mandates a recall, we identify every customer who received affected lots within an hour. Shipping records ready for direct outreach or carrier-side intercept.
Glass bottles, jars, ceramics — fragile food items pack with cell-divider boxes, appropriate cushioning, and 'Fragile' carrier markings. Breakage rate stays under 0.5 percent.
Inbound product is checked against FDA labeling requirements. Anything missing required disclosures (ingredients, allergens, nutrition, lot, expiry) gets flagged before going into available-to-sell inventory.
DTC + Amazon FBA + Whole Foods drop-ship + grocery wholesale orders all pull from one inventory pool with channel-appropriate routing and packout.
The bar for FDA-regulated categories is higher than 3PLs without food experience appreciate. We handle food with the same rigor a supplement brand would expect for vitamins.
Food shrink from expired inventory costs more than fulfillment fees ever will. Strict FIFO and expiry monitoring keep shrink under 1 percent for clients who use the workflow properly.
Glass-bottle food brands lose 2-3 percent of shipments to breakage at most 3PLs. Our breakage rate is under 0.5 percent because we use cell-divider packout and trained packers.
We'll send back an itemized estimate within 24 hours. No sales scripts, no pressure, no contracts. Real numbers from a real operator.
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