Food & Beverage

Large Oilfield Services Provider Gains Supply-Chain Efficiency in Latin America

April 24, 2012

Challenge: As our client's Latin American business expanded throughout the years, focus and resources were allocated to areas vital to the development of the core business. This left the Supply Chain and Logistics areas in need of support and technical resources.

CPG Company Applies 'Lean Principles' - Trims Processes, Gains $85K

April 24, 2012

Challenge: Our client, a consumer packaged goods company, had struggled to incorporate a holistic view of its manufacturing and distribution capabilities. In 2009, the client partnered with LeanCor to help it start applying lean principles in efforts to make product when and where needed.

US-Based Transportation & Distribution Plan Helps Canadian Company Thrive

April 24, 2012

Challenge: We worked with a Canadian client that wanted to sub-contract their US distribution operations to reduce operating costs but more importantly to allow them to focus on the core business as a manufacturer.

Big-Name Brewery Masters Complexities of the Beer Market in India

April 24, 2012

Challenge: The beer market in India is highly regulated in the form of multiple taxes and duties while transporting beer across provinces. One of the largest breweries in the world, was skeptical that any kind of network design or route planning would be beneficial. Many top tier consulting firms failed to prove so.

It Pays (Big!) to Have Spend Management on Your Side

April 24, 2012

Challenge: This national educational materials company suspected they weren't getting the best parcel shipping rates that they could and turned to Insource Spend Management Group to help recover revenue and cut costs. The company had negotiated their own parcel shipping contracts with a leading worldwide 3PL in the past, and after 30 years thought they were getting the best rates they could on their own.

A New Warehouse Management System

April 24, 2012

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Aiming to specialize in the outdoor sports industry, ITS Logistics finds it essential to swap out its WMS, while simultaneously retooling key processes at two Nevada distribution centers.

You Can't Be Successful in China Without an Online Presence

April 24, 2012

Boston Consulting Group

In the past two years, Chinese consumers have opened their wallets and pocketbooks online. Online buying and selling, including group purchasing (through the Chinese equivalents of Groupon), is the second-fastest-growing activity, after microblogging.

McDonald's Says It's Committed to Serving Up Sustainability at Its Stores

April 24, 2012

Environmental Leader

Fast food chain McDonald's has employed techniques including $500 staff incentives, 30-percent wind power requirements and lightweight tractor-trailers to help green up its operations, according to a report by the company.

Major Food Company Gains Increased Lab Efficiency with CentralizedData:

April 24, 2012

Challenge: Celsis Rapid Detection provides systems that enable companies to more rapidly test and release safe products to market. One leading food products company uses three Celsis instruments in its microbiology lab to test daily production runs.

Does IBM Sale of POS Unit Spell the End of Point-of-Sale Hardware Business?

April 23, 2012

Storefront Backtalk

When IBM announced it was selling its entire POS business to Toshiba TEC for $850m, it was arguably the most explicit sign yet that the retail POS hardware business is on its last legs. Not IBM's POS business, but retail POS activity in general.

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.