Food & Beverage

China: Bringing Your 'A' Game to Your China Supply Chain

February 24, 2010

Steven Ganster, Senior Vice President, Asia, Tompkins Associates

Analyst Insight: Leading companies doing business in China - both sourcing and selling to the local market - are revamping their supply chains to minimize costs and empower their growth agendas. China is leading the world economy out of its current recession, and executives are looking to supply chain improvements to fuel their own company's comeback.

Supply Chain Cash Flow Slows

February 23, 2010

Journal of Commerce

Food & Beverage: The United States Gets Serious About Food Safety

February 22, 2010

Paula Hollywood, Senior Analyst, ARC Advisory Group

Analyst Insight: The recent, highly publicized food incidents and drug recalls have eroded public confidence in the FDA's ability to protect consumers from harm. The goal of the new Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, is to restore public confidence in the process. To do so, she is enacting new procedures designed to enforce existing laws.

SaaS & On-Demand Systems: Software Evaluation for Software as a Service or Cloud Computing

February 19, 2010

Dylan Persaud, Managing Director, Eval-Source

Analyst Insight: SaaS and new enterprise software offerings have created a new dynamic for enterprise software selection as opposed to traditional software selection. The cloud evaluation process for software and services must consist of different and a more focused approach, including such factors as importance of methodology, model differentiation, industry-specific expertise and total cost of ownership.

Kinaxis Launches Free Benchmarking Service to Measure Supply Chain Performance

February 18, 2010

Kinaxis

Outsourced-IT Services Partner Held Liable for Not Living Up to Its Sales Pitch

February 17, 2010

CIO

The Supply Chain and Ending Hunger

February 16, 2010

Nick Blawat, Vice President of Supply Chain, Feeding America

Cargo Theft Soars in US; Mixed in Europe and Asia

February 16, 2010

FreightWatch International

UPS Executive Calls on Businesses To Step Up to the Plate on Disaster Relief

February 12, 2010

The Huffington Post

Global Trade Activity Declines in January

February 12, 2010

Panjiva

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.