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Chilled Food Storage, Picking & Distribution – The Best in Cold Storage Facilities from Oakland.

Oakland’s experienced chilled food storage warehousing teams are flexible and reactive to your needs, ensuring quality and integrity is maintained throughout the supply chain. Our cold storage facilities and systems are audited to the BRC (British Retail Consortium) Storage and Distribution standard, and all of our systems surrounding chilled food storage are managed by Oakland’s dedicated Quality Assurance Team. The BRC standard is internationally recognised and is essential for all companies working within the food service industry who want to deal with the UK retailers (for more information on BRC standards visit: www.brc.org.uk/standards).

Oakland’s Chilled Storage Facilities

Oakland’s cold storage facilities provide around 6,000 pallet spaces. Products are stored between +2 and +5 degrees. All stock is managed by a high tech RF warehouse management stock system which recognises and records products as they are received and dispatched - ensuring full traceability of products in chilled food storage at all times.

Chilled Food Consolidation

Oakland is a specialist in case and pallet chilled food consolidation. A chilled case consolidation scheme allows various suppliers to share a pallet space for chilled food distribution, into the retailers and foodservice providers. This not only provides huge savings for them on distribution costs, but also reduces carbon footprint.

Benefits of Chilled Food Storage and Services from Oakland Include:

  • Chilled food storage, picking and distribution 364 days per year and 7 days a week.
  • 6,000 pallet capacity of cold storage facilities.
  • Case and pallet chilled food consolidation.
  • Distribution throughout the UK, Ireland and Europe.
  • Complete stock management and reconciliation from order entry to despatch.
  • EDI, order capture control & POD management.
  • Daily reporting to your inbox which aids the replenishment of stock, and the ability to view live stock movements 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
  • BRC storage and distribution audited facilities - all chilled services are backed up by our BRC (British Retail Consortium) chilled food storage and distribution audited quality assurance team.
  • Daily chilled food deliveries into: Morrisons, Tesco, Sainsburys, Londis, Spar, Waitrose, Iceland, Budgens, Asda, Booker, Somerfield, Co-op, Netto, Nisa, P&H and Aldi.
  • Guaranteed accuracy level on order picking against available stock.
  • Supplier liaison to ensure seamless transition from place of manufacture to Oakland’s dedicated cold storage facilities.
  • Co packing, contract packing facility to assist with any promotional, seasonal or all year round requirements your product may need.
  • Tempering cold storage facilities to allow frozen to chill contract packing.

To ask our experts for advice or to discuss your full requirements please call us now on:
+44 (0) 1527 596222 (contact us page)

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