OD's Grocery Store Consolidation service is designed for dry-goods LTL supply chains. It helps grocery and foodservice shippers control their dry-goods freight, reduce accessorial costs, consolidate to single invoice billing, and eliminate fines and unloading delays. OD follows co-loading policies that exceed DOT and FDA guidelines and avoids co-loading foodstuffs with hazardous or odorous materials.
Streamline Your Food Shipping Process with OD
Whether you’re a food shipper or retailer, OD’s Grocery and Foodservice shipping can help by reducing accessorial costs, providing single-invoice billing, and removing fines and unloading delays.
Benefits of Shipping with OD:
- Proven track record and preferred carrier status with major retailers
- Improved delivery goals and scheduling
- Reduced yard congestion and improved efficiency
- Reduced fines and chargebacks for noncompliance
- Increased visibility and real-time status updates
- Streamlined billing and operations from door-to-door
OD’s consolidation program is tailored specifically to address these issues, allowing for greater flexibility and a simpler solution.
Why Should You Partner with OD for Grocery Consolidation?
Preferred Carrier Status: Shippers need a partner like OD, with a proven track record of navigating the operational demands and relationships, when delivering to foodservice distributors. OD’s mutual trust and partnerships with major food retailers throughout the U.S. will ensure a premium customer experience for the shipper and the distribution center.
Damage-Free Delivery: OD’s fully integrated decking system eliminates double stacking of pallets while straps and airbags secure food freight from movement.
Shipment Integrity: OD’s handling procedures are more stringent than current DOT and FDA regulations and prevent co-loading these shipments with odorous materials.
Overall Cost: With a leading on-time delivery rate above 99% and a claims ratio among the lowest in the industry, OD will help reduce your total cost of transportation by avoiding late deliveries, claims, and compliance penalties.
Driving Efficiency: Benefits to Improve Operations
| Supplier Benefits | Distribution Center Benefits |
| Reduce Accessorial Costs | Scheduling, Receiving Control and Visibility |
| Single Invoice Billing | Reduced Yard Congestion |
| Reduced or Eliminated Fines | Lower Total Landed Costs |
| Eliminated Unloading Delays | More Reliable Product Flow |
Grocery and Foodservice Shipping FAQs
Grocery store and foodservice consolidation combines LTL shipments from multiple suppliers into fewer, fuller, scheduled deliveries to a grocery or foodservice distribution center. Instead of each supplier sending separate shipments that arrive at different times, OD groups that freight together, which reduces accessorial costs, simplifies billing to a single invoice, and helps deliveries arrive on schedule.
Standard LTL moves each shipment independently from origin to destination. Grocery consolidation coordinates multiple suppliers' freight into a managed delivery program built around a distribution center's receiving requirements, adding scheduled delivery windows, single invoice billing, and compliance support that standard LTL does not include.
OD delivers to grocery and foodservice distribution centers nationwide through its network of more than 260 service centers across the United States. To get started, shippers work with an OD representative to set up a drop trailer agreement, establish OD as their preferred carrier, and consolidate supplier shipments into a managed delivery schedule.