Food & Beverage

Revamping Inbound Transportation at Sysco

May 11, 2012

Masao Nishi, Vice President Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Supply Chain Management, Sysco Corp.

Procurement and Supplier Challenges in Asia Pacific

May 11, 2012

Michael Raphael, Head of SC Mgmt/Procurement, Asia Pacific, Jones, Lang, LaSalle

Collaborative Transportation Management Leads To Significant Freight Bill Savings

May 11, 2012

Challenge: A leading producer, marketer and distributor of high-quality branded food products needs control, scalability and visibility to better manage and measure transportation execution management.

Leading Food Company Achieves Savings By Leveraging Managed Transportation Services

May 11, 2012

Challenge: A leading supplier and solutions provider to food service, in-store bakery, and retail marketplaces needs centralized control, scalability and visibility into process to better manage and measure transportation execution management.

Many IT Professionals' Networks Aren't Ready for Cloud Migration, Study Finds

May 10, 2012

Cisco

As the role of cloud computing is growing significantly in its ability to deliver business applications, many IT decision makers are facing challenges with their existing network infrastructure to support the migration of their business applications to the cloud.

Fleet Industry Has Technology Gap, Study Indicates

May 10, 2012

ARI

An overwhelming majority (86 percent) of fleet professionals said at least half of their fleet processes could be made more efficient through technology, but less than half (44 percent) said they will invest in new technologies in the coming year, according to a survey released by ARI, a global fleet services provider. This gap points to a need for technology implementation across the industry as a means of increasing efficiency and decreasing costs.

Unchaining the Value of RFID for Unmatched Flexibility and Fast ROI

May 10, 2012

Barcoding, Inc., Zebra Technologies & Motorola Solutions

Asset tracking is one of the leading RFID applications. This is because the process improvement delivers some of the clearest benefits and fastest ROI.

Idle Container Ship Capacity Falls by a Third

May 9, 2012

JOC Sailings

Container lines have started reactivating their idle container fleets for the summer peak shipping season, which has resulted in a decline of almost a third in idle container ship capacity, according to Alphaliner.

Relationship with McLane to Enable Family Dollar to Expand Offerings at Stores

May 9, 2012

Family Dollar

Family Dollar Stores Inc. has entered into a strategic partnership with McLane, a major provider of grocery and food service supply chain solutions. Beginning in September, this partnership will enable Family Dollar to offer customers a broader selection of merchandise, including refrigerated and frozen food, across the retailer's more than 7,200 locations in 45 states.

Leading Luxury Global Retailer: First-Class Import Trade Compliance

May 9, 2012

Challenge: A leading luxury global retailer to the traveling public needed up-to-the-minute Global Trade Content for their Classification (HTS/HS) codes to ensure compliance for duty, taxes and fees. They preferred an on-line solution supported and integrated with daily updated content rather than installed software, and did not want to have to buy hardware or hire trained personnel to complete the task of maintaining content and working through manual databases/processes.

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.