Food & Beverage

China’s Taste for Soybeans Is a Weak Spot in the Trade War With Trump

For all its economic might, China hasn’t been able to solve a crucial problem.

July 16, 2018

For all its economic might, China hasn’t been able to solve a crucial problem.

China's Chickens Need to Lay a Billion Eggs a Day. Here's How They're Going to Do It.

Behind a row of sealed red incubator doors in a new facility in northern China, about 400,000 chicks are hatched every day, part of the rapidly modernizing supply chain in China’s $37bn egg industry, the world’s biggest.

July 10, 2018

Reuters

Business Is Booming for Plastic Giants

It's the worst enemy of environmental campaigners, but people around the world use mountains of plastic every day and business is booming for manufacturers.

July 10, 2018

IndustryWeek

It's the worst enemy of environmental campaigners, but people around the world use mountains of plastic every day and business is booming for manufacturers.

Three Checklists to Build a Successful Supply Chain Analytics Foundation

July 8, 2018

Logility

Is Bezos Holding Seattle Hostage? The Cost of Being Amazon's Home

July 6, 2018

The Guardian

However they see Amazon, for good or ill, residents of the fastest-growing city in the U.S. largely agree on the price Seattle has paid to be the home of the megacorporation: surging rents, homelessness, traffic-clogged streets, overburdened public transport, an influx of young men in polo shirts and a creeping uniformity rubbing against the city’s counterculture.

The Trade War of 2018: Report From the Front

July 6, 2018

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

With the U.S. on the brink of a global trade war, importers and exporters are asking: Is there method to President Trump’s madness?

Nestlé Suspended From Palm Oil Scheme for Multiple Shortcomings

July 5, 2018

Supply Management

Nestlé has been suspended from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) for failing to report properly.

World’s Shortest Supply Chain? Belgian Supermarket Tries Farm-to-Table Growing on Its Own Roof

July 5, 2018

Reuters

Trying to create the shortest supply chain possible, a supermarket in Brussels is selling produce grown on its own roof only hours after being harvested.

Where 3 Million Electric Vehicle Batteries Will Go When They Retire

July 5, 2018

Bloomberg

The first batches of batteries from electric and hybrid vehicles are hitting retirement age, yet they aren’t bound for landfills. Instead, they’ll spend their golden years chilling beer at 7-Elevens in Japan, powering car-charging stations in California and storing energy for homes and grids in Europe.

Here's What Will Happen When China and U.S. Tariffs Take Effect Friday

July 5, 2018

Fortune

When mutually threatened tariffs on $34bn goods come into effect this Friday, China will get a head start on the United States, Reuters reports.

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