Food & Beverage

How to Grow Leaders in the Supply Chain

June 18, 2015

Andrea Stroud, Research Program Director, APQC

Developing leadership skills that transform the supply chain to new levels of excellence is becoming more of a priority for organizations. Supply chain organizations need to take a holistic, strategic and global approach to leadership development. APQC's research indicates that there is a significant gap between leadership competencies needed for an organization to be successful and the competencies that employees currently possess, suggesting that there is indeed a leadership skills gap.

U.S. Ban on Trans Fat to Bring Big Shift in Supply to Food Industry

June 18, 2015

Business Week

Artificial trans fat will be banned from the U.S. food supply over the next three years under a ruling by regulators that the products pose health risks that contribute to heart disease, the leading killer of Americans.

Supply Chain Operations & Financial Risk

June 18, 2015

Chris Principe, VP, Transaction Banking, Trade Solutions Group

The Rising Challenge of E-commerce in Grocery

June 18, 2015

Steve Christensen, Sr. VP, Americas, Barloworld

E-tailers Prepare for the 2015 Holiday Shopping Season

June 17, 2015

SupplyChainBrain

Omnichannel retailers are gearing up for a holiday season that will likely find shoppers even more inclined to buy on line -- but not necessarily take delivery at home, says Gregg Aamoth, chief executive officer of POPcodes.

Agreement Prohibits RadioShack From Selling Customer Data to Third Parties

June 17, 2015

CNN Money

RadioShack has struck a deal with a coalition of 38 state attorneys general to destroy most of the company's consumer data, stipulating that no credit or debit card account numbers, social security numbers, dates of birth or even phone numbers would be transferred.

3D Printing Brings Competitiveness to Regional Manufacturing

June 17, 2015

PDD

Using a cluster model developed at the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation, Cliff Waldman, MAPI Foundation economic studies director, says 3D printing has caused an increase in regional manufacturing competitiveness.

Transformative Technologies in the Supply Chain

June 17, 2015

Mark Oliver, Executive VP, Commercial Services, Apptricity

Inventory Optimization at McCormick

June 17, 2015

Josh Trepczyk, Senior Manager, Supply Chain Planning-Customer, McCormick

Free Green Freight Handbook Now Available

June 16, 2015

Environmental Defense Fund

Food & Beverage

The latest supply-chain news, analysis, trends and tools for executives in the food and beverage industries. Learn how food and beverage companies and their suppliers around the world are managing the flow of products across all channels of the enterprise. Experts sound off on forecasting and demand planning, supply-chain visibility, logistics outsourcing, inventory optimization, transportation management, warehouse management, supply-chain security, corporate social responsibility and more.