Buonissimo! From Italy to your plate – via ACS&T
July 28, 2010
For high-quality Italian food distributor Ticco Ltd, it’s crucial to have a logistics service that matches its own high standards.
The company supplies fine Italian breads, pastries, desserts, ice creams, snacks and savouries to the foodservice sector, and is the sole UK distributor for the world-renowned Bindi brand of Italian desserts, gelato and sorbetti and the delicious Buoni e Pronti brand of savouries.
Now, thanks to a renewed contract with ACS&T, Ticco has a more centralised, cost-effective and integrated logistics service to help its specialist business continue to grow.
Under the terms of the new contract, we are receiving Ticco’s inbound stock into our Wolverhampton depot from suppliers in the UK and Italy. We’re then picking from 300 different product lines to create consolidated pallets for onward delivery to Ticco’s customers, in a service that will save Ticco money on both storage and delivery costs.
We have supplied Ticco with storage, picking and delivery services for many years. During that time, we’ve built up an excellent working partnership by providing a flexible, dependable service, tailored to ensure that each product reaches its destination in tip-top condition.
Ticco’s pastries, cakes and fine breads are about as delicate as stock gets, so for Ticco, our ability to make sure the fragile products are stacked, moved and handled with ultimate care is really important. Our key objective is to ensure that Ticco’s customers receive perfect pastries, desserts, ice creams and savouries that look as delicious as they did when they came into our store.
The sheer number of different products and the relatively small quantities of each required per order means that picking for Ticco is an intricate process. With a selection of over 25 tortes alone, we make sure we check each pallet and product before delivery, to make sure customers receive the correct cakes at the right destination, every time.
We’re also helping Ticco to stay competitive. As part of our account reviews we looked at ways to save Ticco money and decided to move the operation from Grimsby to our Wolverhampton depot. This central location is reducing fuel costs, minimised food miles and made the supply chain more efficient.
Paul Lelew, Managing Director of Ticco, said: “We have used ACS&T for a long time and over the course of our working relationship they have proved to be a responsive, knowledgeable, flexible and reliable logistics partner. Moving to Wolverhampton has meant that our suppliers have less distance to travel, reducing fuel costs and food miles for everyone involved.”
To find out more about Ticco, please visit www.ticco.co.uk
To find out more about how ACS&T can help to make your logistics programme more efficient, and save you money, contact Carl Robinson on 01472 358207 or email Carl.Robinson@acst.co.uk