Keep It Moving: North Carolina Seafood Transportation Logistics with a Focus on East to West Routes (2014)

Barbara Garrity Blake and Megan Ware/Spring 2014

The North Carolina seafood industry continues to be in a state of contraction, with a declining number of fishermen, packing facilities, and overall poundage of seafood available to marketers. The long-established supply chain to northern markets remains significant, but less availability of high-volume fisheries and a robust “local foods” movement in North Carolina has piqued interest in strengthening in-state and inland markets from east to west. This study, commissioned by NCGT in 2014, examines how and to what extent seafood is currently being transported to in-state markets west of Interstate 95, and identifies challenges to and opportunities for improving the east-to-west supply chain.

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How to Sell Shell Eggs into Grocery Stores through Direct Store Delivery (2015)

The purpose of this fact sheet is to improve your potential for successful and profitable sales of eggs into retail channels. It provides guidance on what you need to know before approaching a retailer, the vendor setup process at the retailer, considerations for packaging/labeling for retail markets, and preparation for your first delivery to the retailer.

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Selling Fluid Milk to Grocery Stores through Direct Store Delivery (2016)

Are you a small or medium-scale, North Carolina fluid milk producer-processor? Are you interested in expanding your market to North Carolina grocery stores? This publication will help you start selling fluid milk directly to grocery stores through direct store delivery, or DSD.

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Process Walkthrough at a Regional Produce Distribution Center (2014)

Produced by Sebastian Naskaris NC Growing Together Supply Chain Fellow. This document is designed to introduce produce vendors to the warehouse management systems through which produce moves from the vendor delivering product to the warehouse to the shipment from the warehouse to the retailer.

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Process Walkthrough: Direct-Store Delivery (DSD) to Retail Grocery Destinations for Niche Meat Producers (2014)

Produced by NCGT Supply Chain Fellow Sebastian Naskaris, this document explains the direct-to-store distribution process at a large-scale retail grocery store with step-by-step explanation and helpful photos.

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Process Walkthrough at a Regional Meat Distribution Center (2014)

Produced by NC Growing Together Supply Chain Fellow Sebastian Naskaris, this document explains the warehouse management systems through which meat moves from the vendor delivering product to the warehouse to shipment from the warehouse to the retailer with step-by-step explanation and helpful photos.

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