Food & Beverage

Revamping Inbound Transportation at Sysco

May 25, 2012

Sysco Corp. has operated very successfully for many years as a decentralized company, distributing $40bn annually in food and associated products to restaurants, schools and other meal-serving organizations. The company felt that it could do better in terms of logistics, however, and decided to centralize inbound transportation operations that previously were distributed among its 70 business units.

Importance of Managing Indirect Procurement Costs Can't Be Overstated, Former CFO Says

May 24, 2012

Industry Week

As the former CFO of such companies as Sprint, Eastman Kodak Co. and Unisys Corp., as well as vice president of finance of General Electric Co.'s plastics division, Robert Brust's management philosophy was to bring procurement into the finance department, at times meeting daily with the purchasing team to go over expenditures line by line.

Mastering Traceability in Milk Supply Chain

May 23, 2012

SupplyChainBrain

Traceability always has been important to dairy cooperative Agri-Mark, but it has become even more of a focus since passage in 2010 of The Food Safety Modernization Act, which gives the Food and Drug Administration the right to make product recalls mandatory, rather than voluntary.

Worldwide Supply Chain Management Software Market Grew 12.3 Percent in 2011

May 22, 2012

Gartner Inc.

The worldwide supply chain management software market totaled $7.7bn in 2011, a 12.3-percent increase from 2010, according to Gartner Inc. It was the second year of double-digit growth for the SCM software market as supply chain investments kept their priority status and moved forward, despite caution from IT budget decision makers.

Indian Ports' Container Volume Down Overall 2.4 Percent in April

May 22, 2012

JOC Sailings

Container traffic through India's major ports fell 2.4 percent year over year in April, the first month of fiscal 2012-13, according to latest traffic figures released by the Indian Ports Association.

Pick the Perfect Plan. Then Add People

May 21, 2012

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

How we love our information systems, our management theories, our best-laid plans. And how often they fail us. It reminds me of what the playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett once said about his work. "Each time one thinks one starts fresh, new," he mused. "Yet each time one reaches the same impasse. There are many ways to begin, many roads to it, but always the same impasse at the end."

O'Hare International to Get $200m Cargo Center

May 21, 2012

Air Cargo World

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that the city has reached a lease agreement with developer Aeroterm, launching construction of the Chicago O'Hare International Airport Northeast Cargo Center. The nearly $200m center, which will sit on approximately 65 acres of property, will be built in three separate phases.

From City to City, China's Port Industry Is Simply Booming

May 18, 2012

British International Freight Association

The scale of China's sea trade activity has been revealed in the stark detail that the country has more than 25 ports that now each handle at least 100 million tonnes of cargo a year.

California Cantaloupe Handlers Approve State's First Mandatory Food Safety Program

May 18, 2012

Calif. Dept. of Food and Agriculture

California cantaloupe handlers have voted overwhelmingly in support of the state's first mandatory food safety program to be implemented by a commodity board. The California Department of Food and Agriculture said that 100 percent of handlers voting in a statewide referendum are in favor of amending the existing California Cantaloupe Advisory Board to establish the new food safety program.

The Critical Impact of Trade Promotions on Your Supply Chain

May 18, 2012

Josefin Aspegren, Marketing Director, Optilon

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