Intermediate and processed foods sit between two factories. They leave one plant as a production batch and are already committed to another plant on a fixed date, which makes them less forgiving than a finished consumer product. Nobody is waiting on a shelf. A line is waiting.
A finished product that misses a day loses a day of sales. An intermediate that misses a day can idle a production line, and the cost of that is not measured against the value of the pallet. The service level matters more here than the rate does.
Goods arrive in whatever quantity the run produced and leave against a schedule that was agreed months earlier. The warehouse absorbs the difference, which is a stock accuracy and put-away problem before it is a space problem.
European food law works on one-up, one-down traceability, and an intermediate product is the middle link. If the chain breaks in storage it breaks for everyone downstream, so every movement has to stay tied to the batch that came in.
Our Belgian warehousing is certified to the BRCGS Storage and Distribution standard at AA grade and to ISO 9001, and the outbound legs run on our own fleet. Storage and transport planned by one company rather than handed over at the dock.



