Recently, when a new customer commenced storing with us, we went through our normal customer service spiel about all stock needs to be stored on CHEP/Loscam pallets, as that ensures the pallets are suitable to our racks, and ensure reliability and product integrity in cold storage. It also allows ease of movements of the pallets […]
Author: Tom Colyer, General Manager
What is Cold Storage and how does it all work?
If you are new to Cold Storage and Refrigerated Logistics, this should answer a few basic questions.
Cold Storage and your Supply Chain: How’s it all work, eh?
So, you ran out of room in your fridge/freezer. Whats next? And how does Cold Storage and Logistics work.
The Five Most Common Mistakes when Using Cold Storage
Over the decades we have been in operation we have helped countless people grow their business. Not only through providing great value cold storage and refrigerated logistics, but by helping our customers streamline their logistics operations. It’s one of the benefits of our services, is that we provide advice and feedback. Sometimes that advice makes the customer change their operations…
Managing Business Change Following a Customer Success
In a service industry such as Cold Storage and Logistics, customers come and go. They are far more transient than in services that in a production sector. We see so many customers start small, and grow into large customers. It’s one of our many joys at APF Cold Storage and Logistics, being able to see […]
AQ, EQ & GRIT Training with Brand South Australia
On Thursday, I attended one of the Brand South Australia Free professional development workshops, that is put on with the support of Bernie Lewis Home Loans. The event on Thursday was run by Jo Marshall from Culturise and was in the amazing Majestic Rooftop Garden on Frome Road. The session went in to an area […]
October RWTA Networking Breakfast, with Glaciem Cooling
As the weather outside was champagne Adelaide spring weather, with fog and rain encouraging everyone to sleep in, I made my way to The Caledonian in North Adelaide for the RWTA’s networking breakfast at 7am. Today’s event featured Glaciem Cooling showing off their new technology which seeks to make CO2 a more desirable option as […]
Self Storage & Freezer Rooms, Another Way We Are Different
APF Cold Storage and Logistics have always been about doing what the customer needs, rather than trying to make a client fit what we want. When we started business in the 1908’s, we were in the centre of the migrant population that grew in Australia after the Vietnam War, and the Conflict in Cambodia and […]
Small is the New Big
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Beer and BBQ Festival here in Adelaide at the Wayville Showgrounds. It was one of those great times in business, where enjoyment and work are perfectly aligned. The Beer and BBQ Festival seeks to assist craft brewers to connect with a large audience that they would […]
How Carton Cloud Simplifies our Administration, So We Can Focus on the Customer
APF Cold Storage & Logistics began using warehouse management platform CartonCloud in 2017, after previously relying on paper based inventories, and basic excel spreadsheets to track and manage customer stock levels across our Distribution Centres. CartonCloud enables all customers to track their stock and follow stock movements inwards and out and is easy for our […]