Food & Beverage

Trust Bastian Solutions to provide you with the tools to navigate the complexities of food logistics, last-mile delivery, and mixed case sortation, ensuring efficient, reliable operations that exceed your customers' expectations.

• FIFO and Spoilage
• Labor Issues
• Worker Safety
• Contamination
• Multiple Environments, Same Location
• Allergen Management

The cost of not automating can be significant, with risks including food recalls, fines and wasted products. Our solutions help you manage inventory with FIFO (First In, First Out) systems, ensuring your food and beverage items are efficiently moved to the proper storage and organized correctly to keep your products fresh and safe. We help you protect your brand reputation and meet the highest industry standards by minimizing errors and maintaining optimal conditions. 

By considering the following factors and implementing advanced material handling automation solutions, you can address the challenges of food distribution and logistics and ensure efficiency, safety, and compliance in your operations.

• Human Factors: Open processes, where workers handle products, are vulnerable to contamination and errors, such as foreign debris and illness. Closed processes, like case handling, present maintenance challenges and can be expensive to build.
• Order and Delivery Errors: Picking errors can lead to incorrect shipments and wasted food, especially with high throughput demands.
• Food Security: Food products are considered national security items. Automation reduces the risk of "bad operators" and ensures compliance with FDA and international food regulations.
• Safety and Ergonomics: The repetitive and fast-paced nature of the work increases the potential for worker injuries.
• Flexibility: Products come in various form factors (bag, can, box, case) and weights. Consolidating product handling in fewer, more prominent locations can help manage diverse product requirements, including multiple temperature, shelf-life, and humidity settings.

Bastian Solutions opens visibility to your operation so you can manage proactively when and where you need it. Some technologies and solutions that help support the food and beverage industry include:

• Data-driven consultation
• Exacta Software
  • ExactaBev, Beverage distribution software
• Goods-to-person systems
• ASRS
  • Mini load or shuttle base for case handling
  • Crane-based automation for pallet handling
• Plastic belt conveyor for food processing
• Robotic packaging
• Mixed case palletizing