Yoplait improves UK supply chain

Chilled food distributor NFT has been awarded a new three-year contract by Yoplait UK, an affiliate of General Mills UK. The deal involves the management of Yoplait’s entire UK chilled supply chain activity, including the handling and distribution of up to 500,000 cases per week with NFT providing chilled storage for over 4,000 pallets at peak trading volumes.

A deal clincher for Yoplait was the ability to utilise NFT’s temperature controlled facility at Tilbury, London. The facility is specifically designed to offer port centric solutions for imported food products and is the largest chilled and fresh warehouse facility in Europe.

With Yoplait products coming into the UK from France, it was essential to provide an optimum strategic inbound location. The NFT London facility is equipped with the latest Red Prairie warehouse management system, which provides complete web-enabled track and traceability for Yoplait’s vast range of products that are picked to order on a case level basis seven days a week.

Dave Howorth, supply chain director of North European Cluster at General Mills, says, ‘’Following an extensive review of the market, NFT London provided a clear advantage. We now have an optimum inbound and outbound solution into the UK retail market for Yoplait which will benefit us in the short and long term.‘’

Dale Fiddy, strategic development director at NFT, adds, ‘’We are delighted to secure the UK warehousing and distribution activities of leading brand Yoplait. NFT London is quite simply a game changer for imported chilled and fresh food into the UK and the Yoplait contract is a great case study in how the facility can drive real competitive advantage to its customers.’’