Our Supply Chain operations

The supply chain ensures the efficient movement of products from suppliers to consumers and is at the heart of the retail industry. Our supply chains maximise customer on-shelf availability, ensuring the right products are in the right place just when the customer needs them. With optimised operational efficiency, our SPAR branded retail stores are able to offer freshness, value and choice every day, with traceability and food safety embedded across the value chain.​

Warehouse Operations

Distribution Centres are the essential hubs that power centralised distribution and serve our stores with fast, frequent, and store-friendly deliveries. ​

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A network of facilities operates across the SPAR country organisations worldwide, managing up to 55,000 ambient, chilled, frozen, fruit and vegetable products in both dedicated and mixed-use facilities​

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Our fresh supply chain is designed to move products from field to consumer in hours, maximising freshness and product life.​

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An efficient Distribution Centre, operating as part of an end-to-end value chain, enables SPAR country organisations to offer optimum consumer pricing whilst providing world-class customer service levels that our retailers and their consumers expect.​

Supply Chain Sustainability

The impact of our supply chain operations on the environment is a key concern. We work closely with suppliers to coordinate in-bound deliveries to our warehouses and out-bound deliveries to our stores to maximise efficiency and minimise the carbon footprint.​

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Automation is increasingly built into Distribution Centres, unlocking efficiencies and elevating warehouse operations, while remaining focused on the sustainability impact.​

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Across the value chain, we actively work to minimise food waste by ensuring the right products in the right volumes are delivered to stores.​

Independent Retail

The supply chains across the SPAR network are established to support our independently owned and operated stores to receive cost-effective product deliveries. This is just one example of how the SPAR model enhances collaboration between wholesalers and retailers, enabling the independent retailers to compete effectively with leading supermarket chains.​