Food & Beverage

Changes, Past & Future, in Intermodal

April 5, 2012

Dave Howland, VP, Global Land Transport Svcs., APL Logistics

Best Buy Embarks on 'Transformational' Plan to Combat Online Competition

April 3, 2012

Weighed down by the size of its big-box stores and facing competition from more nimble online-only competitors, Best Buy is embarking on a "transformational strategy," its executives said. For the company's finance chief, Jim Muehlbauer, that will mean dealing with $800m in cost cuts over the next three years.

ChemLogix Enhances Rail Transportation Management Capability

April 3, 2012

ChemLogix

ChemLogix LLC has added GeoMetrix rail logistics guidance technology as part of its transportation management solutions set.

Emerging Best Practices in Food & Beverage Shipping: Fulfilling the Perfect Order

April 2, 2012

C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc.

Learn how food and beverage companies are employing best practices in perfect order fill and finding opportunities for revenue growth and cost reduction.

Canada, Japan Say Free-Trade Agreement Would Greatly Benefit Both Nations

March 30, 2012

Progressive Railroading

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda have announced plans to begin negotiating a free-trade agreement aimed at deepening trade and investment ties between the two nations.

Business Services Job Loss Due to Offshoring Will Spike in 2016, But Virtually Cease by 2024, Report Says

March 29, 2012

The Hackett Group

Corporations in the U.S. and Europe will move an additional 750,000 jobs in IT, finance and other business services to India and other low-cost geographies by 2016, according to new research from The Hackett Group. But levels of additional offshoring in these areas will begin to decline by 2014, and in the next 8 to 10 years the flow of jobs offshore is likely to cease, as companies simply run out of business services jobs suitable for moving to low-cost countries.

Even Small Companies Have Big Analytics Needs

March 28, 2012

Chief Executive

It turns out that small- and medium-sized brick and mortar companies can use analytical tools just as the largest corporations can-or the hottest Web-based social media start-ups or the biggest intelligence agencies with three-letter names.

Technology Advances Can Help You Tackle Analytics Challenges

March 28, 2012

CIO

Advances in analytic technologies and business intelligence are allowing CIOs to go big, go fast, go deep, go cheap and go mobile with business data.

Redundancy Planning in Seaport Gateway Selection

March 27, 2012

SupplyChainBrain

Properly planning for the unplanned - a supply chain disruption of any kind and for whatever reason - means optimizing your distribution center network, having the right modes lined up to transport your goods to market, and ensuring that you choose the best ocean port, says John A. Moseley, general manager, trade development, at the Port of Houston Authority. It also means having a backup port just in case.

Just Being Efficient Isn't Enough? We Really Need a Chief Sustainability Officer?

March 27, 2012

Chief Executive

Two years ago, the director of sustainability at a $1bn consumer-products company suggested the corporate budget committee add a new criterion in deciding which capital projects to approve: the project's environmental impact. The director devised a metric for measuring the impact in categories such as water usage, waste reduction, packaging and carbon emissions. The idea saved $20m the first year.

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.