UNFI consolidate distribution centers in the optimization plan

Tave speak:

• United Natural Foods, Inc. optimizes its distribution center network to reduce the costs and to offer retail customers a more reactionable service. In a securities registration this month.
• The planned changes include Close his Allentown, Pennsylvania, facility In the 2026 financial year after the end of an agreement with Key Food, the main customer of the center. The closure Efforts 716 employees.
• “We rated our DC-by-DC-based business to evaluate where we will see growth, where the chances of winning exist from the point of view of the service and program,” said CEO Sandy Douglas In a profit call on June 10th.

Diver Insight:

UNFI is in the middle of a three -year financial recreation plan that began last year, together with a restructuring of the company's sales network, CFO Giorgio Tarditi told investors. UNFI started the rescue plan After two years of unstable financial results

Since last August, the company has consolidated the volumes of two sales centers to other institutions and closed a third center, all in the central region of the United States, according to the company's securities. The leaders of UNFI expect to reduce the operating and shrinking costs and to improve the product range with the closures

The volume from the allentown facility is consolidated to other northeastern centers

Changes to Uffi distribution network contain more than closures and consolidations. In the first quarter of the financial year it opened a center in Manchester, Pennsylvania. A facility in Sarasota, Florida, is to be opened in the first half of the 2026 financial year

The 1.3 million square meter facility in Manchester offers UNFIS second AI provider robot automation systemDeveloped by Symbot. UNFI previously installed a symbolic system in its Centralia, Washington, distribution center

Efficiency efforts in the UNFI network included the expansion of the company's Lean Daily Management program to 20 of its 52 sales centers, said UNFI executives in the profit call. Daily managementWhat aims to prevent problems through proactive supervisionHas reduced the injury rates, reduces the shrinking and improved the outsider by about 75%, said Tarditi.

The changes to the UNFI distribution network continues and it is likely that the company will be communicated in the submission

The UNFI will be re -formed the new sales network, since companies shift their operating process from the expansion to efficiency. Proceed auto parts Consolidates its distribution network in a single process and Calvin Klein Owner PVH Corp. Consolidate its facility to increase the US campaign capacity utilization