Berry Supply Chain Case Study: Seasonal Stabilization

Stabilizing a Seasonal Berry Supply Chain Across Regions and Retailers

300–500 weekly

pallets managed

trucks coordinated

0 + weekly

Daily movement

inventory cadence

The Challenge

Berry Supplier is a major berry provider operating across the U.S., sourcing from multiple growing regions that shift dramatically with the seasons and weather. They needed a Midwest facility that could manage cross-regional inventory and redistribute product to major retailers year-round — without requiring separate trucks for each berry variety.

Managing inventory across regions and retailers?

The Castellini Solution

Castellini became Berry Supplier’s Midwest consolidation hub. By housing inventory from multiple growing regions and origins, Castellini enables Berry Supplier to pair all berry SKUs — regardless of origin — into a single outbound load per customer. Quality checks are now conducted closer to the delivery date rather than 3–5 days before customer arrival. In several cases, Castellini performed rework and repack to ensure product arrived retail-ready and added value at the end customer level.

See how we handle consolidation, repack, and multi-SKU distribution

The Outcome

Berry Supplier reduced its truck count and complexity, moving consolidated multi-SKU loads instead of separate trucks for each variety.
Quality assurance improved significantly with proximity-to-delivery checks.
The supply chain became resilient to seasonal growing shifts — Castellini absorbs the variability so Berry Supplier's retail customers never feel it.

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