Food & Beverage

Intermodal Thrives, While Long-haul Trucking Dives

January 6, 2014

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Intermodal is on a roll.

The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board: A Case Study

January 6, 2014

John Metzger, PLCB; Tzarni Mangosong, Deloitte Consulting and Doug Hitz, PLCB

Why Your Forecast Is Wrong (And Always Will Be)

January 3, 2014

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

How is your demand forecast like a tabloid psychic? Their record for accuracy is just about the same.

NCR: An Old-Line Company Never Stops Changing

January 3, 2014

SupplyChainBrain

Gordon Pearson, global inventory director with NCR, talks about the challenges his company faces in gaining full visibility of supply and demand, and in dealing with increasing supply-chain volatility.

2013 Supply Chain Innovation Awards, Presented by SupplyChainBrain & CSCMP

January 3, 2014

SupplyChainBrain

Innovation of the Year: Smart packaging creates right size box for every item shipped from e-commerce centers Winner: Staples & Packsize International; Runner-Up: PepsiCo; Finalists: LMI, Motorola Solutions, Pa. Liquor Control Board, IBM

The Strategic Approach to Implementing Traceability Standards

January 3, 2014

Mark Miller, Vice President, AFS Technologies

The importance of produce traceability has been made devastatingly clear in recent years by well publicized incidents of illness, and even death, due to contaminated lettuce, spinach, cantaloupes and more. While officials in such cases spend weeks tracing the contamination to its source, all growers, wholesalers and retailers suffer market consequences.

The Demand-Driven Supply Chain at Coca-Cola

January 3, 2014

Paulo Mendes Jr., Director - Planning & SC Strategy, Coca-Cola Company

GM Plans to Reduce Carbon Footprint Through Logistics Programs

January 2, 2014

Supplychains.com

General Motors is joining the voluntary U.S. Environmental Protection Agency SmartWay Partnership, which will drive benchmarking of fuel consumption and reduction of emissions by its freight shippers and carriers with the goal of further shrinking the company's carbon footprint.

Alcohol-Control Authority Toasts Vendor-Managed Inventory System

December 30, 2013

SupplyChainBrain

By leaving much of the management up to its many suppliers of wines and spirits and by postponing transfer of ownership, the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board saves an estimated $100m.

Fresh and Fast: Meeting the Challenges of the Produce Supply Chain

December 27, 2013

SupplyChainBrain

A conversation with Richard Sawyer, vice president of supply chain with Dole Fresh Vegetables.

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.