Operations for Food Banks

A food bank is a supply chain. It should run like one.

I spent a decade in demand planning and inventory management before I started designing nonprofit operations. Food banks carry the same patterns — intake, storage, distribution, tracking — with a fraction of the infrastructure. I fix that.

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Sound Familiar?

You're running a distribution operation on spreadsheets and memory.

Inventory tracking is manual — you know roughly what's in the warehouse, but not precisely what's expiring when.
Distribution scheduling depends on whoever remembers which partners need what, and when.
Volunteer coordination for sorting, packing, and distribution shifts is a weekly time sink.
Donor and funder reporting requires counting backward from what you think you distributed — because the data isn't clean.
You've looked at food bank software, but it's designed for operations 10x your size and priced accordingly.

10+ years

Supply Chain

Demand planning, inventory management, distribution logistics

6 hrs → 45 min

Volunteer Coordination

The same scheduling pattern, different context

Two nonprofits

Run Simultaneously

Logistics at scale with a tiny team

How It Works

Start with a conversation. Go from there.

Discovery Call

30 minutes, free. You tell me how work actually moves through your organization. I listen for the patterns — where things get stuck, duplicated, or dependent on one person's memory. You'll walk away with initial observations whether or not we work together.

Workflow Assessment

If a deeper look makes sense, we do a full assessment. 60-minute deep-dive, written report with bottleneck analysis and prioritized recommendations, plus a walkthrough call. $750 flat. The deliverable is yours — no strings.

Groundwork

If your assessment reveals a systems gap, I design and build the fix. Process redesign, custom tools, automation — whatever the operation actually needs. The system, the code, and the documentation are yours. You operate it. No vendor lock-in, no recurring dependency on me.

Your food bank is a supply chain. Let's design it like one.

30 minutes. No pitch, no pressure — just an honest look at what's going on and whether I can help.

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Or email me directly: heath@heathjohnson.co