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Valu
“ Aside from the challenges of stocking a huge range of products, our supply chain must also contend with Canada’ s geography. Any Canadian supply chain must maintain extremely good control on its inventory position, placing inventory ahead of actual demand due to long lead times in certain areas, such as two weeks between Toronto and some Atlantic provinces, for instance.”
Putting pets first
Although Pet Valu had been growing for decades, the business experienced particular success during the pandemic and quickly outgrew its in-house storage capacity.“ We were using third party overflow facilities, and the network wasn’ t operating as effectively or efficiently as we’ d like, so, in 2022, I joined Pet Valu to commence its supply chain transformation,” Nico shares.
“ Our transformation aims to completely modernize both our supply chain and distribution network, the latter of which concentrates on the Greater Toronto, Vancouver, and Calgary regions. With Vancouver and Calgary on the west side of
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