A Decade-Long Strategic Partnership Built Around Growth

A Fortune 500 packaged-food company with a multi-brand portfolio

THE SITUATION

A Fortune 500 packaged-food company with a growth-by-acquisition strategy needed more than a warehousing vendor — it needed a supply chain partner that could absorb new businesses repeatedly without disrupting service, across product lines spanning cold, frozen, and temperature-sensitive goods. Each acquisition brought its own facilities, systems, and ways of working, and the company needed those folded into a single, optimized network on a recurring basis while day-to-day distribution continued uninterrupted. 

OUR SOLUTION

Beginning in 2015, CJ Logistics built a partnership designed to flex with the customer's M&A pace and evolving business-unit strategy. Over the course of the relationship, CJ Logistics executed more than seven seamless M&A integrations, standing up new operations and absorbing acquired ones without service interruption. The partnership modernized the technology backbone — launching BlueYonder warehouse management and MercuryGate transportation management systems — and added physical capacity through greenfield facilities purpose-built for the customer's needs. CJ Logistics managed refrigerated rail assets to support temperature-controlled movement, ran continuous network and transportation modeling to keep the footprint optimized as the business changed, and began piloting AI to drive the next phase of improvement. The work has moved through clear phases — optimization, implementation, and continuous improvement — with each acquisition and initiative handled inside that framework.