Food & Beverage

Everyone Can Be a Supply Chain Innovator

July 3, 2014

Joel Greenberg, APL Logistics and Milton Young, Mopani Holdings LLC

Coca-Cola Begins Building 'Green' Plant in China

July 2, 2014

The Coca-Cola Co.'s $100m plant in China's South Harbin Industrial City, reportedly to be LEED-certified, is designed to accommodate nine production lines for both sparkling and still beverages, including Coca-Cola, Sprite, Fanta, Minute Maid and Ice Dew.

Georgia Company Uses RFID to Locate Pallets of Frozen Foods

July 1, 2014

RFID Journal

Eskimo Cold Storage, a frozen foods storage company based in Gainesville, Ga., has already saved $100,000 since installing RFID readers about four months ago, and forecasts an annual savings of $233,000. The company installed an RFID reader at the end of 20 aisles within its warehouse, so that it could confirm where its thousands of pallets are located as they are put away or removed.

Changing Directions of International Retail Supply Chains

July 1, 2014

Essential Retail

UK retailers continue to receive a growing number of online orders from abroad - and the trend is set to continue, according to recent research.

Towards an Operational Understanding of Resilience

July 1, 2014

Steven Melnyk, Prof. of Operations & SCM, Michigan State University

Leveraging External Procurement Resources

July 1, 2014

Mike Ludwig, Director, Business Development, ATC Industrial

Despite Highly Publicized Breaches, Most IT Execs Still Believe Their Data Isn't Secure

June 30, 2014

FierceRetailIT

The results of a new data security survey of U.S. businesses should not be surprising, but they are certainly alarming. Even though high-profile data breaches such as Target and P.F. Chang's have been in the news since the start of the year, IT executives said their companies' data is not secure.

TNT Express to Move Lufthansa Bombardier Aviation Services' Mission-critical Parts in Germany

June 30, 2014

TNT Express

Lufthansa Bombardier Aviation Services has awarded TNT Express the transportation contact to ship mission-critical aviation parts within Germany. As part of the deal, TNT Express collects the parts from Bombardier's warehouse in Groß-Gerau between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. and delivers them to LBAS aircraft maintenance engineers and mechanics in Berlin Schoenefeld Airport the next morning before 6 a.m.

More Adventures in Sustainability: Keurig Green Mountain

June 30, 2014

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

The latest sustainability report from Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. finds a green company getting even greener.

Service-Level-Driven Demand Planning

June 30, 2014

Greg Hartunian, President, Smart Software, Inc.

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.