Food & Beverage

Riding the Peaks and Valleys of Retail Demand

November 11, 2013

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Black Friday looms, and with it the onset of the year's peak retail shopping season.

Orchestro Develops Retail Tracking App for the iPad

November 8, 2013

Orchestro

Orchestro has made its retail product-monitoring application available on the iPad.

Consumer Goods Supply Chains: The Next Five Years

November 7, 2013

SupplyChainBrain

Brenda Hambleton, chief marketing and strategy officer with ES3, details the biggest challenges that consumer-goods producers will be facing in their supply chains over the next five years.

Cutback in Government Food Stamp Program to Affect Food Retailers

November 6, 2013

Los Angeles Times

U.S. food retailers are poised to take a hit as the federal government reduces its $78bn-a-year food stamp program.

The Role of the Wholesale Distributor in the Supply Chain

November 6, 2013

Robert Eastman, Senior Analyst, SCM, Technology Evaluation Centers

Most Companies Require Continuous, Real-time Intel. Too Bad They Don't Have It.

November 1, 2013

ChainLink Research

Time-critical decisions in transportation, risk management, security, disaster response, manufacturing, and other operational domains require continuous real-time situational awareness and intelligence. Most enterprise systems do not provide this today.

ShockWatch Unveils Web-Based Management of Cold-Chain Shipments

October 31, 2013

ShockWatch

ShockWatch, a vendor of tools for supply-chain monitoring, has introduced the TrekView Data Management System (DMS) for control of temperature-sensitive products.

Despite Knowing Danger of Inventory Mis-picks, Industry Still Relies on Paper Lists for the Most Part, Study Says

October 31, 2013

Beverage Industry

Distribution centers are losing an average of nearly $390,000 every year due to mis-picks, according to a study conducted by Everett, Wash.-based Intermec Inc.

Greater Access to Supply Chain Finance Urged for Suppliers in Central Europe

October 31, 2013

Demica

Significant liquidity could be released for supplier companies based in Central Europe through supply chain finance, according to the latest research from Demica. Its new study reveals that such programmes could help unlock combined working capital of more than â‚¬16bn for suppliers in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary in the manufacturing, wholesale and logistics sectors.

With Competition from Other Low-cost nations, Whither Mexico's Maquiladoras?

October 31, 2013

The Economist

When Mexico set up the first maquiladoras half a century ago, they were sweatshops that simply bolted or stitched together imported parts, then exported the assembled product north across the border to the United States. America got cheap goods; Mexico got jobs and export revenues. Now, with competition growing from other low-cost locations, and with the government cutting some of their tax breaks, the maquiladoras are having to step up their efforts to become innovative.

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.