Food & Beverage

Starbucks Customers, Farmers Can Now Trace Their Coffee With Blockchain

August 26, 2020

Starbucks fans can now trace their coffee. And so can farmers, who will know for the first time where their beans end up.

Justifying the Cost of Your Automation Project

August 24, 2020

Westfalia Technologies Inc.

Today's automated systems can operate 25 years or longer. These are the primary factors to consider.

How to Optimize a Direct-to-Consumer Supply Chain

August 19, 2020

Joe Bellini, SCB Contributor

With storefronts under siege, strengthening direct-to-consumer channels has never been more important for retailers and manufacturers.

Unilever Uses Phones to Track Sustainable Palm Oil

August 18, 2020

Bloomberg

Unilever is planning to use new geo-location technology to make its palm oil supply chains more transparent and tackle a farm-to-table traceability problem that has plagued the industry for decades.

Fixing COVID-19’s Food Disaster Could Also Slash Climate Emissions

August 14, 2020

Bloomberg

The pandemic has cut greenhouse gases in some key ways, as people are flying and driving less. But food waste accounts for one reason why the drops likely won’t fall as low as hoped.

Beirut Explosion Destroys Tonnes of Lebanon’s Food Stocks

Beirut Explosion Destroys Tons of Lebanon’s Food Stocks

August 6, 2020

Bloomberg

The huge explosion in Lebanon’s capital of Beirut tore through major grain silos, stoking fears of shortages in a nation that imports nearly all its food and is already reeling from economic crisis.

For These Workers, Getting Covid Means Getting Fired

August 3, 2020

Bloomberg

As coronavirus cases explode at U.S. farms and food factories, the foreign migrants who pick fruit, clean seafood and sort vegetables are getting trapped in tightly packed bunkhouses where illness spreads like wildfire.

Case Study

A Green Nutritional Powder Catches On, But Its Supply Chain Needed to Catch Up

August 1, 2020

Athletic Greens goes looking for a distribution and e-commerce partner that can help it to maintain service quality with a fast-growing, direct-to-consumer fulfillment model.

Case Study

For The Wenger Group, Process Automation Means Improved Food Safety

August 1, 2020

A regional producer of agricultural products sheds paper and manual processes in favor of an automated system for complying with strict regulations on food safety.

AKI Group Transforms Transportation Operations, Saves $1 Million

Case Study

AKI Group Transforms Routing Operations, Saves $1 Million

August 1, 2020

SupplyChainBrain

The Dubai-based conglomerate, facing significant operational inefficiencies and a huge number of different products and customers, moves to assert more control over transportation routing and scheduling.

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.