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OPERATIONS
Rotella's Italian Bakery
site can handle tripling that capacity with future construction
and development.
" You want to build things that you're able to grow
into, " John Rotella said. " We have to be able to grow over
the next 10 to 15 to 20 years. "
The major benefit to owning its own cold storage facility
is not just keeping storage and distribution 100%
in-house, but it also operates 24 hours a day seven days
a week, just like the company's five bakery facilities.
Currently, the cold storage facility operates two 8-hour
shifts seven days a week with 120 employees, but once all
third-party storage facilities are phased out, Rotella's will
add that third 8-hour shift to cold storage.
The Rotellas worked with Tippmann Group to design
the cold storage facility that also houses offices and meeting
spaces. The dock has 40 doors for semi-trailer trucks
collecting products for distribution and sits at a cool
36˚F, and different levels of the freezer itself remain at
0˚F and -10˚F. Inside the freezer, racks of product stretch
400 feet long and 65 feet tall. Turret systems that workers
drive through the freezer are completely enclosed
with an interior temperature of a balmy 65˚F to keep
employees comfortable and safe. The team picks trays
and sends full pallets in and out of the facility on trucks
out the dock doors that line one wall of the facility.
" It's a semi-automated process, " John Rotella explained.
" The reason we did a semi-automated process is
to provide redundancy in case anything goes down. I've
seen a lot of fully automated facilities in the industry, but
I wanted that redundancy in case of equipment breakdown
because being from the bakery world, I've seen
how often equipment can break down. It's always good
to have a plan B. "
The greatest challenge of starting up the cold storage
facility was integrating the software system with the company's
existing system. Rotella's is using a new warehouse
management platform to handle the cold storage facility
and distribution, and the IT team had to integrate it with
the existing system at the main campus. John Rotella said
" THEIR IDEAS - BOTH OF
MY SONS - HAVE DEFINITELY
TAKEN THE BUSINESS
TO THE NEXT LEVEL. "
Lou Rotella Jr., Rotella's Italian Bakery
www.bakingbusiness.com / December 2024 Baking & Snack 25
Rotella's Cold Storage
allows Rotella's Italian
Bakery to bring its
warehousing in-house.
Photography by David Radler
http://www.bakingbusiness.com
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