A project involving logistics experts, farmers, hauliers and millers has revealed that making supply chain efficiency improvements could result in millions of pounds worth of cost savings.
The arable supply chain stretching from the farm to the mill has a number of cost inefficiencies that those involved have been aware of, Farmers Weekly notes.
But a project led by the English Farming and Food Partnership (EFFP) has found that savings can be made even without investing large amounts of capital.
By making changes such as reducing the size of the time window allocated for picking up and delivering grain, various cost savings can be made, the study found.
"What's so heartening about the results is that it's not going to be huge capital investment that will make the most gain, it is simply changes to processes which the whole chain can contribute towards to achieve," said associate director of the EFFP Duncan Rawson.
Roly Taplin from DHL Supply Chain, which was involved with the project, said that it was useful to see how transferring approaches from other sectors worked on the grain chain.
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