Food & Beverage

Ecodesk Wants You to Be Able to Compare How Sustainable Your Suppliers Are

April 15, 2013

Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, Del Monte Foods and MGM Resorts are among some 25 companies that have joined an Ecodesk campaign to improve supply chain efficiency and transparency, and make it easier for businesses to measure so-called Scope 3 emissions.

In Modern Retail Replenishment, Once a Day Isn't Enough

April 15, 2013

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

For retailers, the bar just keeps getting raised. Supply-chain excellence used to be about filling orders seasonally. Then weekly. Then daily. Now we hear of merchandise being replenished multiple times a day. Is there no end to the madness?

Meat Recalled in Britain as Traces of Veterinary Drug Found

April 12, 2013

The New York Times

A British supermarket chain has recalled a beef product after traces of the powerful veterinary drug phenylbutazone, which is banned from the human food chain, were found for the first time in an item that had been on sale in stores here.

Brown-Forman Embraces Visibility to Cope With Rapid Growth

April 11, 2013

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

The giant producer of alcoholic beverages lacked visibility of its prepaid ocean shipments and carrier performance levels. It sought a single platform for managing the flow of goods from the factory all the way to destination.

Solving the Maze of Mergers & Acquisitions in China

April 10, 2013

Strategy + Business

It used to be that the only way for multinational corporations (MNCs) to enter China was through a joint venture with a local Chinese partner"”typically a government-appointed, hopelessly backward state-owned enterprise. Foreign ownership was capped at 50 percent, and MNCs faced numerous hurdles, such as local supplier requirements and mandatory technology transfer agreements.

TNT Hopes for Large Savings from Restructuring

April 9, 2013

Supply Chain Standard

TNT Express has set out plans to make recurring savings of 220m EURO by 2015 with a series of measures, including consolidating services, optimizing its infrastructure and reducing indirect costs. The restructuring is expected to cost 150m EURO by the end of 2015.

Wal-Mart to Use Customers to Deliver the Goods?

April 9, 2013

Reuters

Wal-Mart is considering a radical plan to have store customers deliver packages to online buyers, a new twist on speedier delivery services that the company hopes will enable it to better compete with Amazon.com.

Old Dominion Freight Line Enhances Service-Center Network

April 9, 2013

Old Dominion Freight Line Inc.

Old Dominion Freight Line Inc. has made several enhancements to its network of service centers.

Is Your S&OP Process In Tune With Your Organization?

April 9, 2013

Marko Pukkila, Research Director, Supply Chain Research, Gartner

How CSX Is Meeting the Demands of Intermodal Shippers

April 8, 2013

SupplyChainBrain

Arthur Adams Jr., director of sales with CSX, outlines shippers' intermodal "pain points," and talks about what the railroad is doing to alleviate them.

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.