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Transporting food and beverage products presents an increased level of complexity that must be effectively managed to ensure overall success.

From the importance of managing seasonal surge, contingency planning due to weather or agricultural conditions, complying with safety and regulation requirements, ensuring transportation cleanliness and creating best track and trace procedures, there are a wide range of food considerations that must be deliberated and executed to make certain products arrive on time and as specified. When it comes to transporting food and beverage products, there is no margin for error.

Choosing a Dedicated Contract Carriage (DCC) provider for your food and beverage operations is a critical step and it's important to identify your requirements and fully understand the benefits of a well-structured DCC arrangement before starting the selection process. That's why we created this guide – to make available the critical information you need to make the best decision possible.

If you operate a private fleet in the food transportation industry, it is critical you comply with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Implemented by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the FSMA aims to improve safety and prevent spoilage. Receiving facilities and companies that transport food have been required to adhere to the rules since 2018.

In the pages of this e-book, you will learn:

• The benefits of compliance
• FSMA requirements
• How to spec the right equipment
• And more

Download and read the e-book and begin creating a modern transportation management solution that fits today's business needs.

Finding a warehousing option that works for your cold chain is paramount to managing surges and achieving growth. Doing so in a tight market while ensuring food and beverage safety and regulatory compliance can seem difficult.

Multi-client warehouses offer a solution that allows you to move inventory closer to customers, maintain visibility, and expand your business footprint while reducing costs.

With Penske’s dedicated Food Safety Leadership, our food-grade warehousing locations employ temperature tracking technology and are monitored through rigid internal auditing processes for food safety, ensuring your cold chain stays fresh and your customers stay happy.

Download and read the e-book to learn how Penske can take your business to the next level.

At its heart, transportation management helps companies move freight at the lowest possible cost. And while cost remains an important consideration, so too do customer service, inventory control, change management and multiple other priorities.

This new e-book from Penske Logistics explores nine additional ways that modern transportation management solutions drive a competitive advantage. You'll learn how having quick access to real-time data increases visibility. You'll uncover secrets on how to become a shipper of choice. And you'll learn how to choose a solution that will scale with your company as it grows.

Download and read the e-book and begin creating a modern transportation management solution that fits today's business needs.

The safety and quality of perishable products is critical to ensure product integrity, meet regulatory requirements and maximize efficiency. Plus, retailers and consumers expect the freshest offerings with the longest possible product shelf life.

There’s also a need, driven by multiple sources – including the Food Safety Modernization Act – to provide transparency and monitoring of every product from the moment it’s harvested until it reaches the consumer’s plate. Plus, consumers increasingly want to know exactly where their food originated.

The 2022 Annual Third-Party Logistics Study found that several opportunities exist within the cold chain – supply chains specializing in the planning, loading and movement of temperature-sensitive freight. Most shippers, 91 percent, and 3PLs, 100 percent, said they expect demand for cold chain capacity to increase over the next three years.

Ensuring fresh foods and other temperature-sensitive products arrive as planned is all about process, procedure and reliability. Leveraging the right level of technology is key to creating efficiencies.

Cold Chain Growth Brings New Challenges for Shippers and 3PLs covers this and more. Download you free copy today.

The safety and quality of perishable products is critical to ensure product integrity, meet regulatory requirements and maximize efficiency. Plus, retailers and consumers expect the freshest offerings with the longest possible product shelf life.

There’s also a need, driven by multiple sources – including the Food Safety Modernization Act – to provide transparency and monitoring of every product from the moment it’s harvested until it reaches the consumer’s plate. Plus, consumers increasingly want to know exactly where their food originated.

The 2022 Annual Third-Party Logistics Study found that several opportunities exist within the cold chain – supply chains specializing in the planning, loading and movement of temperature-sensitive freight. Most shippers, 91 percent, and 3PLs, 100 percent, said they expect demand for cold chain capacity to increase over the next three years.

Ensuring fresh foods and other temperature-sensitive products arrive as planned is all about process, procedure and reliability. Leveraging the right level of technology is key to creating efficiencies.

Cold Chain Growth Brings New Challenges for Shippers and 3PLs covers this and more. Download you free copy today.

Maintaining commercial vehicles is a complex process. Service technicians must be able to maintain equipment at the right intervals and with the proper tools and training. And businesses must be able to support their technicians by hiring the right talent to get the job done and keep up with rapidly evolving, cutting-edge fleet technology – all while ensuring cost-efficiency and compliance.

At Penske, we can partner with you to overcome these challenges and more while keeping you in the driver's seat. Let Penske On-Site Maintenance help you and your team tackle complex fleet operations:

• Recruit, train and manage the right talent
• Increase shop and fleet efficiency
• Stay up to date with technology
• Ensure safety and compliance
• Keep costs predictable and under control
• Gain visibility into your fleet data

Download and read the e-book to learn how Penske can take your shop to the next level.

Our practical innovations, built on decades of experience, are grounded in rigorous process, historical data and industry-leading technology. We believe in smart technology that works to help your business today, not years from now. We’ve invested in people, processes and equipment to make sure your business stays ahead of the curve. Our digital tools give you real-time information to help you make decisions and run your business more efficiently.

Learn more about our industry-leading innovations and advances in:

• Intelligent maintenance - Combining process, data and technology to maximize uptime
• Advanced safety tech - Adoption of active safety systems on the rise
• Connected vehicles - Leveraging technology to better run your fleet
• Digital fleet tools - Real-time visibility to save you time and money

Download and read the e-book to learn how Penske is innovating to keep your business moving forward.

Use this free executive brief to evaluate your supply chain network strategies.

In an increasingly uncertain world, network design is quickly becoming the new imperative. It is not only the pace of change driving network design's value, it is also the scale of the changes that companies now face. The importance of strong network design strategy, planning and resiliency continues to be strongly felt across the globe as supply chains struggle to keep up with the changing complexity imposed by COVID-19.

Executives can leverage advanced 3PL's logistics engineering and network design expertise to help scenario plan, validate strategic decisions, uncover cost savings, improve service levels, or integrate disparate networks following a merger or acquisition. Network design analysis can help inform critical decisions such as:

• The optimal number and location of plants and warehouses.
• The best mix of transportation modes and routes.
• Which customer fulfillment strategy to adopt when preparing for e-commerce.

Evaluating supply chain strategies such as localization, offshoring or nearshoring.