Food & Beverage

Pool Distribution Slashes Distribution Costs for Candy Manufacturer

September 5, 2013

Challenge: A major marketer of candy and entertainment products has a national customer base but lacked the volume to ship customer orders in full truckloads from its East Coast facilities. The challenge: bring down freight costs to compete in a hyper-competitive market.

Grocery Cooperative Improves Distribution to Member Supermarket Chains

September 5, 2013

Challenge: A large retail grocery cooperative depends on outsourced logistics services to meet the needs of its member-owners - grocery retail chains - for fast, accurate and efficient distribution.

Quality, Performance, Speed-to-Market Drive Growth of Batch Management Software

September 5, 2013

ARC Advisory Group

Increased importance to quality, production performance, business system integration, and increased regulations on food and drug safety are fueling the growth in the batch management software (BMS) market. Global economic conditions and countries with increasingly troublesome fiscal conditions and policies are impacting regional growth patterns.

24x7 Global Parts Support for Mission-Critical Medical Equipment Uptime

September 4, 2013

Challenge: Patient care is the utmost priority for our client providing sophisticated radiation therapy and radiosurgery tools and treatment systems in over 5,000 hospitals globally. Mission-critical service parts must be available with little advance warning. A decentralized approach created serious service disruptions and inconsistencies requiring global continuity.

Supporting Around the Clock Digital Document Management Systems Availability

September 4, 2013

Challenge: Serving Fortune 50 to 500 companies in industries such as finance, publishing, and legal, this international provider of digital document management technology and services is known for its reliability of 24/7 printing, sorting, and binding of documents, billing transactions and other material critical for business operations.

Old Dominion Opens Chicago West Service Center

September 3, 2013

Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc.

Old Dominion Freight Line Inc. has opened a 100-door facility southwest of Chicago.

Hurricane Sandy Makes Port Jersey Logistics Hurry Up and Wait

September 2, 2013

Challenge: As hurricane season approaches, Port Jersey Logistics recalls a project impacted by Hurricane Sandy. By mid-2012, an Israel-based kosher foods exporter had outgrown its East Coast 3PL provider. Furthermore, its shipments would soon double during autumn's peak season. Transitioning several products to PJL was underway when, on October 29, the worst natural disaster in NJ history changed everything.

Inventory optimization drives 26% sales growth through supply chain synchronization

September 2, 2013

Challenge: A beverage bottler needed to reduce Out of Stocks and enable better inventory turnover. Additionally, a Vendor Managed Inventory solution was needed to provide KPI's on internal and client stock levels, demand planning, event management and order administration.

Made4net WMS Boosts Growth and Performance for Retailer Distribution Centers

September 2, 2013

Challenge: Being a fast growing grocery chain Made4net's customer must keep its produce and organic products on the move, to keep it fresh and at the highest quality. Existing manual system proved to be cumbersome as volume increased due to the company's growth.

FedEx Offers Cold-Shipping Option for Healthcare Customers

August 30, 2013

FedEx Corp.

FedEx Corp. is offering a cold-shipping packaging option for shippers that require a refrigerated environment of 2-8 degrees Celsius to be maintained for up to 96 hours.

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.