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Mini-load machines handle
low-volume products
The right equipment for the
right job keeps our operating
and energy costs in line.
Mini-loads, which provide
efficient, automated storage
and retrieval of low-volume
products, are now in use
at 11 warehouses, and are
planned for more.
Hydrogen fueling stations power our warehouse fleet
At a growing number of our warehouses, pallet jacks and
forklifts are fueled with hydrogen fuel cells, lowering emissions
and increasing the life of each machine.
DRY STORAGE
CORE STRENGTH
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&L
Sysco was created four decades ago on
theprinciple that aggregating foodservice
purchasing and distribution across multiple
markets would create eciencies to benefit
both the company and its customers. From
that beginning, operations and logistics
eciencies have become a core strength
forSysco. We continue to improve upon
our processes in large and small ways,
fromour hub-and-spoke system of RDCs,
to technology in the warehouse and on
ourtrucks, to the XY routing system we
use to make customer deliveries more
time- and energy-ecient.
In the logistics area, a current focus is
onmode-shifting, where our integrated
system allows us to outperform the industry
by eectively using rail transport. We receive
a total of about 40 rail cars a week in our
two existing RDCs, and our new north-
central RDC is being designed with even
greater rail capacity.