CASE STUDY

Redwood Makes Excellent Rating Paw-sible

MARKET: PET FOOD, MANUFACTURING

Perfection Pet Foods is a leading private label and contract manufacturer of extruded dry pet food and pet treats. As one of the largest suppliers of pet food and treats in the country, Perfection Pet Foods offers end-to-end solutions to their wide variety of customers, domestic and international alike. World class production capabilities, a strategic west coast location, and strong pet category tailwinds have all contributed to rapid growth for Perfection Pet Foods.

THE CHALLENGES

  • Direct Plant Shipment (DPS) system that could no longer keep up with growing demand
  • Needed for a larger, food-safe warehouse to support retail partnerships
  • Complex certification requirements, including Safe Quality Food (SQF) compliance
  • Requirement for a logistics partner to manage full distribution operations

THE SOLUTION

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Redwood stepped in with its facility-based and asset services team to help Perfection Pet Foods open a state-of-the-art distribution and fulfillment center in Visalia, California

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As Perfection Pet Foods continued to grow, so did the list of logistical requirements from new customers. Redwood was able to partner with Perfection Pet Foods to offer key fundamental warehousing and logistics needs, while also offering much needed inventory reporting detail to satisfy new customer requirements.

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THE RESULTS

An “Excellent” Safe Quality Food rating and certification
Improved transportation and capacity
Uncompromised warehouse safety
Complete control over order fulfillment

KEY TOOLS

Warehousing & distribution
Multimodal & dedicated fleet
LTL & parcel management
Oracle WMS Cloud
RedwoodConnect™

We needed a logistics expert that could tackle the entire distribution end of our supply chain.

Jaison Klingensmith, Vice President of Supply and Demand Planning at Perfection Pet Foods