The future of logistics has arrived.
As New Zealand’s leading retail logistics partner, Cardinal has geared-up to revolutionise your supply chain. From industry-first automated warehousing, our pioneering Perfect Pallet, to our partnership with Maersk, this is logistics on-demand.
The Supply Chain as we know it, is imperfect
With the permanent structural changes to NZ’s supply chain, imperfection is a major distraction: inability to supply on time, quantity errors, damages, rising costs, labour constraints, can impact your bottom line and relationships with retailers while preventing you from executing with consistency and confidence.
The retail logistics world moves quickly, and to date, the logistics industry has struggled to keep pace in a demand-driven environment where customer comes first and efficiency means success.
Meet the Perfect Pallet
This is a logistics solution built around its customers.
Welcome to the Perfect Pallet, Cardinal’s pioneering smart-logistics solution here to revolutionise your supply chain. Innovative, automated, and accurate to give you unprecedented management, accuracy and confidence in your supply chain.
Through smart technology, your Perfect Pallet is expertly built from the ground up. From analysing your inventory and characteristics to ordering, layering and packing with unmatched accuracy, including multiple supplier SKUs on a pallet, aligned to store aisle topography, to enable just-in-time ordering, one-touch goods receipting in store, ease of merchandising and first-time invoice matching.
This is logistics transformed, perfect.
Brands who are committed to the Perfect Pallet
The Warehouse of the Future
Cardinal recognises the opportunity for full warehouse automation and is embracing this with the creation of 100,000 fully automated pallets, with stage one (60,000 pallets) opening in 2024.
Dark warehouses, with integrated full-pallet pick and carton pick technology, AI smart systems, free from labour restrictions, that makes your supply-chain an automated, always-on engine for your business.
Our Perfect Pallet smart technology is the first step towards seeing this realised, which along with logistical automation and dark warehousing will solve widespread industry challenges and transform retail operations for our key partners.
Our warehouse spaces are filling fast, with dark warehousing ready to kick off in 2023.
Let’s get your business moving.
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Reasons why the Perfect Pallet with 99.8% accuracy can help your business move forward.
100% delivery in full
Smart technology builds your pallets with 100% accuracy, before delivering them securely to your end-destination.
No de-listing risk
Reduce the risk of product de-listing with no claims, customer service calls, load rejections, invoicing errors and un-matched DIFOT with your customers.
Cost savings and management
Your bottom line is ours. The Perfect Pallet has been designed around an open book policy making cost management and pricing more transparent as well as benefits from reduced ullage and claims.
On-demand ordering
Through just in time ordering, we anticipate and manage your stock requirements, while responding effectively to demand fluctuations.
Reduced human error and safety risk
Our smart technology runs seamlessly and to your specifications, reducing the margin for error in our workforce, and risks to health or safety.
Supplier Consolidation
Integration with other supplier SKUs, allows just-in time ordering and pallets packed to store aisle topography.
At Cardinal, our mission is to become an enduring partner and strategic extension to our client’s businesses.
With retail logistics as our core focus, we’re proud to service an expansive network of clients throughout New Zealand, as a meaningful, integrated engine driving their success.
Through over 450 staff, cutting edge technologies and purpose built infrastructure, we offer a full scope of services, allowing you to focus on the business of production while we get more of your products to shelves, faster.