Walmart plans to break ground on a new high-tech grocery distribution center in Shafter, California. Computer algorithms deployed at the facility are expected to improve efficiency, lower transportation costs, and reduce food waste.
Walmart associates will use technology from global automated logistics system solutions company WITRON to manage how boxes of perishable groceries such as produce, eggs, and flowers get packed onto pallets for shipping.
A computer algorithm shows all the cases ordered for a given store and determines how to palletize them to maximize the space on a pallet or trailer.This results in fewer perishable products getting crushed during the palletizing process means a reduction in food waste.
The company is targeting zero waste in their Canada, Japan, UK, and US operations by 2025.Last year, Walmart stores in Japan established partnerships with vendors nationwide to recycle fish traces. A total 1.1 million pounds of fish waste got recycled through the program.
Walmart’s 2018 sustainability report says that by the end of 2017, the company had diverted 78% of its waste from landfills globally.
Walmart associates will use technology from global automated logistics system solutions company WITRON to manage how boxes of perishable groceries such as produce, eggs, and flowers get packed onto pallets for shipping.
A computer algorithm shows all the cases ordered for a given store and determines how to palletize them to maximize the space on a pallet or trailer.This results in fewer perishable products getting crushed during the palletizing process means a reduction in food waste.
The company is targeting zero waste in their Canada, Japan, UK, and US operations by 2025.Last year, Walmart stores in Japan established partnerships with vendors nationwide to recycle fish traces. A total 1.1 million pounds of fish waste got recycled through the program.
Walmart’s 2018 sustainability report says that by the end of 2017, the company had diverted 78% of its waste from landfills globally.
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