Run a produce operation that doesn't bleed margin to spoilage.
FEFO picking, COOL compliance, daily route days, catch-weight pricing — all the operational realities of fresh, codified.
The pain points that drove us to build for produce.
These are the realities that came up on every conversation with produce distributors. APFoods was built to make them go away.
Spoilage as 4–6% of COGS
Industry benchmark for produce distributors who don't run FEFO is 4–6% — meaning every $1M of revenue, $40–60K is going to write-offs.
Recall trace-back in days, not minutes
When the FDA calls about a romaine lot, you have 24 hours to identify every customer who got it. Manual systems take days.
Daily route shuffling
Customer-specific delivery days, freshness-driven sequencing, and short-dated SKUs that need to ship first — your dispatch board is a moving target.
Six modules tuned for produce.
Not just generic ERP — every screen and workflow shaped by the way produce operations actually run.
FEFO picking by lot
Picker app suggests the right lot every time. Override requires a reason code — your spoilage problem has accountability.
Country-of-Origin Labeling
COOL data captures at receipt and prints on every invoice. Your buyers stay compliant; your auditor sleeps.
Daily route templates
Tuesday-A route auto-builds from standing orders + customer route days + new orders. Driver app sequences stops by freshness.
Catch-weight pricing
Variable-weight produce (case of romaine, lug of tomatoes) priced on actual at delivery — not a guess.
FSMA-204 ready
Critical Tracking Events captured in the workflow. Recall reports in seconds, not days. Sortable Spreadsheet export built-in.
Live AR aging
Restaurants on net-7 sometimes drift to net-25. Your software flags it before the next truck rolls.
What modern software typically saves.
The math behind the pitch.
These are estimates from industry benchmarks and what comparable distributors typically save by moving to a modern platform — not promises, not customer testimonials. Your numbers will vary based on current spend, fleet size, and order volume.
Run the numbers on your own operation by talking to our team — we'll model your specific situation in 15 minutes.
Run the math on your operationAPFoods was built for these use cases.
Different operation? See another distributor type.
See APFoods on your data.
30 minutes, your customers, your route days. Real walkthrough — no slideware, no script.
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