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Augmenting Supply Chains with IoT | Peter Mehring, Founder & CEO, Zest Labs

IoT For All Podcast · 12 Jun 2019 · 48m

What this episode covers

Peter Mehring, Founder & CEO of Zest Labs, explains how IoT sensors monitor fresh food at the pallet level to reduce waste and improve labor utilization in the supply chain. He details the discovery that product history, not just transit temperature, drives spoilage, leading to Zest Labs' 'Zest Fresh' solution which provides corrective actions rather than raw data. Mehring shares how he overcame customer adoption hurdles by framing the technology as a margin-improvement tool, citing a successful pilot with Costco that increased average shelf life from 3 days to nearly 10 days for lettuce.

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companies scaling up

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Companies
Zest Labs, Echelon, Apple, Costco, Whole Foods, Amazon, NRDC, Refed
Products
Zest Fresh

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