PlantProduction

PRODUCTION

At Luiten Food – Thomas Foods Europe, anything we can do ourselves, we actually do ourselves. We have our own production area where we portion the meat. Then we have a labelling department where the products get labelled, so that they are ready for our customers. Looking at logistics, our in-house expedition is where trucks are loaded and unloaded. Incoming products are scanned into our CSB system, entering them into the inventory and making them fully traceable. Each location in the warehouse has a unique number, making it easy to find the products. To provide our customers with as much convenience as possible, we maintain our own fleet of vehicles. This gives us the flexibility to respond to our customers’ needs. On top of that, we cooperate with regular partners for international transport. We arrange all the necessary documents for international import and export, to ensure that the shipping process runs as seamlessly as possible.

In the labelling department, we label packaged meat products. Every day, we start up a production line, meeting all the daily goals at the end of the day. Besides ensuring production output, everyone bears the important responsibility to ensure product quality, e.g. best-before checks, food safety and hygiene.

Our expedition department deals with loading and unloading trucks and containers. Early every morning, we process the fresh products which arrive from Paris every day. Our aim is to send the products to our customers within 3 hours. This allows our customers to enjoy the fresh poultry the same day. The rest of the day we spend picking export orders and unloading containers coming in from all over the world. All our incoming and outgoing goods are checked for temperature and quality. The goods are then entered into our in-house Enterprise Resource Planning system, the CSB system. The CSB system allows us to track every box throughout the company. Our processes are all supported by: scanners, pump trucks, scooters, stackers, fork-lift trucks and reach trucks. Furthermore, we occasionally use a conveyor belt when unloading containers, to make the work as easy as possible for all employees.