Food & Beverage

Human Resource Software Now Contains Talent Management Modules

January 11, 2013

Human capital management software is traditionally understood as addressing human resource plus talent management business requirements. While HR software is now quite affordable and adopted by many businesses, a comprehensive HCM suite that includes talent management modules is not equally accessible.

Aldata Develops App to Manage Fulfillment for Online Grocery Orders

January 10, 2013

Aldata

Aldata has made available G.O.L.D. Drive, a new tool which supports order fulfillment for shoppers ordering groceries online and collecting them directly from drive-through depots without entering a store.

How Can We Keep Growing U.S. Manufacturing?

January 10, 2013

Industry Week

America has done a good job of solving internal manufacturing problems, improving quality and reducing waste and costs. These internal programs have kept American manufacturing in the game. But there is a problem. Manufacturing isn't growing in terms of factories, percentage of GDP, employees, or sales revenue.

Ordoro, Bigcommerce Partner to Offer Drop-Shipping to eTailers

January 9, 2013

Bigcommerce

Ordoro has teamed up with Bigcommerce to provide online retailers with the ability to drop-ship orders to customers. Ordoro is an electronic-commerce application which helps merchants to streamline their back-office operations.

RFID Technology Enables Bars to keep Better Tabs on Booze

January 9, 2013

RFID Journal

Several Miami-based restaurants and bars are employing a radio frequency identification solution that identifies and weighs liquor bottles, and then transmits that information to a server where it can be linked to point-of-sale (POS) data. In this way, management can know how much of each type of liquor is being poured, how customers are then being charged at the register, and when any discrepancies might occur, such as an over- or under-pour, a missing bottle or unbilled pours.

Turkish Meat Producer Uses RFID to Keep Tabs on Product, Deter Pilferage

January 7, 2013

RFID Journal

Bereket DÃ¶ner, one of Turkey's largest producers of frozen and ready-to-serve meat products, is employing radio frequency identification to track its goods as they are loaded onto pallets, weighed and shipped to customers.

Leaders of Other Industries Can Learn from Grocery Shoppers' Values, Behaviors, Report Finds

January 3, 2013

PwC

No experience happens as often, grabs share of wallet, and stimulates the senses more than grocery shopping, finds PwC US in a new report titled Experience Radar 2013: Lessons from the U.S. Grocery Industry. The study, which is one in a series of customer-centric reports, measures the experiences of about 6,000 U.S. consumers across multiple industries.

Smaller Businesses Can Get in on Benefits of Big Data

January 2, 2013

CIO

'Tis the season for prognostications. Staring into the big data crystal ball one thing seems clear: We can expect to see the continuing growth of the internet; wireless networks; social media; and the number of mobile devices, sensors and other digital technology that is flooding us with new data every minute of every day.

Fallout from Conn. Massacre of Children Felt in Gun Marketplace

January 2, 2013

Bloomberg Business Week

While President Barack Obama and other Democratic politicians clear their throats about proposing new gun control laws sometime next year, the marketplace is responding swiftly to the Newtown, Conn., elementary school massacre.

The Versatility of Voice Across Multiple Industries

December 31, 2012

Marco Martinez, Support and Development Dir, Mexico & Latin America, netLogistiK

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.