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Fast Moving Consumer Goods Logistics

Grocery retailers, beverage groups, and consumer goods manufacturers build their supply chains around one dominant principle: goods must flow, not sit.

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Grocery retailers, beverage groups, and consumer goods manufacturers build their supply chains around one dominant principle: goods must flow, not sit.

FMCG logistics – the supply chain management of Fast Moving Consumer Goods such as food, toiletries, and beverages – is structured to minimize dwell time at every network node while keeping shelves…

Warehouses function as flow-through hubs rather than storage facilities, with fixed delivery windows, vendor-managed inventory agreements, and consolidated route-optimized transport replacing large…

Last updated: 24 June 2026Published: 19 June 2025

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Grocery retailers, beverage groups, and consumer goods manufacturers build their supply chains around one dominant principle: goods must flow, not sit. FMCG logistics – the supply chain management of Fast Moving Consumer Goods such as food, toiletries, and beverages – is structured to minimize dwell time at every network node while keeping shelves continuously replenished. Warehouses function as flow-through hubs rather than storage facilities, with fixed delivery windows, vendor-managed inventory agreements, and consolidated route-optimized transport replacing large safety stocks. Cost efficiency comes from network design and shipment consolidation, not from buffer inventory. Unlike pure cold chain logistics, FMCG logistics covers dry goods and ambient-temperature products alongside chilled or frozen items.

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