Case Study: Food and Grocery achieves fresher, on‑time deliveries and 15–20% resource savings with Ruan

Food and Grocery - Customer Case Study

Ruan is an 80-year transportation leader with more than seven decades serving grocery and food processors, where speed and freshness are critical. The company faces the challenge of delivering highly perishable products on time amid seasonal demand swings and complex customer requirements, while also meeting efficiency and sustainability goals.

Ruan meets that challenge with its Dedicated Contract Carriage (DCC) and integrated solutions—assigning professional drivers to accounts, using real-time routing technology, and offering logistics, maintenance, warehousing and brokerage services. Those practices, plus environmental initiatives like a large CNG fleet and SmartWay-recognized efficiency measures, typically cut resource use 15–20%, contribute to major diesel and CO2 reductions (including an Indiana CNG operation that can save ~1.8M gallons of diesel annually and E‑SMART targets of 165,000 metric tons of CO2), and give customers private-fleet benefits, lower risk and improved bottom-line results.