Cold Chain & Temperature Logistics
Planning runs on one person's memory and a stale spreadsheet. The operator over-stocks short-life items and runs short on movers, near-expiry write-offs pile up, and the working capital and chamber space tied in either cannot be seen until it hurts. Seasonal swings (a festival, a harvest, a heat wave) hit the same way every year and are planned for from memory.
Who has it
Sharpest for fresh and quick-commerce fulfilment, where shelf-life and demand planning run against a short clock; then cold-storage operators, for occupancy and seasonal inward planning; and reefer fleets, for the fleet-utilisation view.
What we build
A read-only layer over the order book, sales and dispatch history and shelf-life data that shows demand patterns, forecast-vs-actual gaps, near-expiry and slow-moving stock, stock-out risk on movers, and the cash and chamber space tied in each, so the planner decides with the picture in front of them. Explicitly a sanity layer, not an oracle.
What is automated, where AI helps, who signs off
The reliable spine
The spine is non-AI: the read-only layer over the order book, sales and dispatch history and shelf-life data that shows demand patterns, forecast-versus-actual gaps, near-expiry and slow-moving stock, stock-out risk on movers, and the cash and chamber space tied in each.
Where AI helps
AI does only bounded pattern-reading on the operator's own history, such as surfacing a recurring seasonal swing the planner can sanity-check. It is a sanity layer, not an oracle: it never sets the plan, commits an order or decides the stock level.
Who signs off
A named planner makes every stocking and ordering decision; the layer informs, it does not commit.
What changes day to day
Planning starts from a shared, current picture instead of an argument; near-expiry write-off and stock-out risk become visible early; working capital and chamber space tied in slow stock come down; the decision stays human.
Illustrative outcome
Lower near-expiry write-off and fewer stock-outs on movers as planning runs off the picture instead of memory.
Illustrative; final numbers come from your own data.
Path to the build
Book a free 60-minute call, then a free Blueprint on the firm's own records. Deep-dive and build, followed by run and govern so the workflow keeps paying back.
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