Food & Beverage

How Will the Omnichannel Change Retail?

May 22, 2014

Curt Bimschleger, senior vice president of retail logistics with Genco, offers some observations on how the omnichannel is transforming the retail sector.

Food Costs, Minimum Wage Hikes Drive Increased Prices at Nation's Restaurants

May 22, 2014

SpenDifference

The majority of America's chain restaurants held the line on price hikes the first part of the year but plan to start raising them, according to a new survey from SpenDifference, a restaurant supply chain co-op.

Is Ice-Cream Parlor Business a Snapshot of Mexico's Small-Is-Better Approach to Retail?

May 21, 2014

The Economist

In almost every town in Mexico, you will find at least one garish La Michoacana ice-cream parlour, a Mexican business success story, possibly as well known as Dunkin' Donuts is in the United States. But it is not a corporation, nor a brand, nor a franchise. It is a confetti of independent, family-owned ice-cream parlours.

Retailers Grapple With the Omnichannel

May 21, 2014

SupplyChainBrain

Jim Barnes, president and chief executive officer of enVista Corp., discusses how retailers and distributors are addressing the unique challenges posed by the emergence of the omnichannel.

Private Sector Hiring Again, Mainly in Sales, Technology, Manufacturing, Production

May 21, 2014

CFO

Private companies, expecting revenue growth to soar far past that of gross domestic product (GDP), are in a hiring mode not seen since pre-recession days. While various GDP forecasts for the United States call for 2014 growth of less than 3 percent, the average predicted revenue gain for the next 12 months, among 213 private companies surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers between January and April, was 8.5 percent.

The Value of Certification for Logistics Pros

May 20, 2014

Tim Brown, Dir. of Professional Education, Georgia Tech SC & Logistics Institute

C.H. Robinson Launches Robinson Fresh for Produce Shippers

May 20, 2014

C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc.

C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc. has launched Robinson Fresh, a new service aimed at the produce industry.

Brick-and-Mortar Stores Will Still Be Around, But They Must Provide Better 'Experience' for Shoppers

May 19, 2014

Apparel

The ubiquity of the internet and smartphones has made e-commerce and m-commerce grow by leaps and bounds. But fear not, brick-and-mortar retailers: in-store shopping isn't going anywhere. In fact, brick-and-mortar retail still drives more than 90 percent of commerce, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Chinese Accuse Pharmaceutical Executive of Bribery to Build Sales

May 16, 2014

New York Times

A British senior executive working in China for the global pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline helped orchestrate a long-running bribery and fraud scheme that involved making secret payments to doctors, hospital staff and government officials to bolster drug sales, Chinese authorities said.

Landstar Thinks Outside the Big Box

May 15, 2014

Challenge: An industry leading technology manufacturer was incurring hundreds of thousands of dollars in chargeback fines from several "big box" retailers that sell their product due to the previous logistics providers' inability to comply with the retailers' stringent delivery protocol.

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.