Food & Beverage

Target President Says 'Showrooming' Is a Fact of Retail Life, Find Way to Make It Work for You

October 24, 2013

As a Target "beauty concierge," young Chelsea Mathison prowls the cosmetic aisles at the retailer's Nicollet Mall store, sweetly asking shoppers if they need beauty tips and recommendations. The pixieish clerk seems an unlikely front-line warrior in the Minneapolis-based retailer's effort to embrace showrooming -- where consumers fiddle with products in stores, only to surf their smartphones to see if they can buy the items cheaper somewhere else.

Global Supply-Chain Planning: It's Getting Tougher

October 24, 2013

SupplyChainBrain

Glen Margolis, chief executive officer of Steelwedge, describes the planning challenges that companies are facing as they cope with increasingly complex demand and supply networks.

Landstar Quenches Beverage Company Need

October 23, 2013

Challenge: Leading Beverage Company Need: A major North American beverage company having difficulty finding trucks in today's marketplace asked Landstar for support in sourcing and managing additional capacity beyond the normal reach of its carrier partners.

Symphony EYC Debuts Tool for Merchandise Management

October 23, 2013

Symphony EYC

Symphony EYC has developed Symphony EYC Merchandise Management and Store Operations, a new application to support omni-channel commerce.

The Current State of Routing

October 22, 2013

Gavain McDonald, Director, Route Optimization Solutions, Airclic

Executives want to know that their organization isn't wasting time or money. For logistics organizations, that means trucks should only be doing what is necessary to support the business, and nothing else, to ensure that time and money are invested only in value adding activities.

Piracy Declines Around the World, But Vigilance Advised Off African Coasts

October 21, 2013

Maritime Executive

The International Chamber of Commerce's International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has revealed that piracy on the world's seas is at its lowest third-quarter level since 2006, but warns of the threat of continuing violent attacks off the East and West coasts of Africa.

Achieving Sustainability: From Waste Management to Light Bulbs

October 21, 2013

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Sustainability can involve a global effort to calculate carbon emissions across the entire supply chain. Or it can mean the changing of a few light bulbs.

Ethnographic Studies Lead to New-Product Successes

October 18, 2013

Industry Week

Many a company has a "customer first" approach, and improvement methodologies such as Lean and Six Sigma start with the "voice of the customer". So what is the point in trying to solve modern-day business problems with ethnography methods that many people still exclusively associate with anthropology?

There Is 'Sense of Optimism' About U.S. Manufacturing, Study Suggests

October 18, 2013

Appliance

Improvement in a number of indexes suggest optimism for the manufacturing sector in the coming three to six months, according to the quarterly MAPI Business Outlook.

Vietnam Supply Chain 'Weakness' Keeps Export Costs Up

October 17, 2013

Supplychains.com

Weaknesses in Vietnam's manufacturing and agricultural supply chains have prevented the country from lowering export costs and capturing much needed value addition, said Pham Minh Duc, senior economist at the World Bank.

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.