Food & Beverage

World’s Food Supplies Get Slammed by Drought, Floods and Frost

July 26, 2021

Extreme weather is slamming crops across the globe, bringing with it the threat of further food inflation at a time costs are already hovering near the highest in a decade and hunger is on the rise.

U.S.-China Trade Booms as If Virus, Tariffs Never Happened

July 23, 2021

Bloomberg

China and the U.S. are shipping goods to each other at the briskest pace in years, making the world’s largest bilateral trade relationship look as if the protracted tariff war and pandemic never happened.

England Frees Key Workers From Isolation Amid Food Supply Fears

July 23, 2021

Bloomberg

The British government is rolling out daily Covid testing to allow workers in critical services in England to avoid self-isolation, amid concerns that mass staff shortages are threatening crucial supplies.

Startup Couriers Snatch Toehold in Shake-Up of the FedEx Era

July 22, 2021

Bloomberg

Surging e-commerce is generating more package deliveries than giant couriers can handle, but the logjam is spawning startups with new ways of speeding deliveries.

Boris Johnson’s Trucker Troubles Become a Business Nightmare

July 22, 2021

Bloomberg

A shortage of drivers, exacerbated by Brexit and Covid, is pushing up delivery costs and leading to empty shelves in stores.

VIDEO

Watch: Are Foodservice Supply Chains Getting Back to Normal?

July 22, 2021

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Justin Marx, chief executive officer of North American Meats & More, checks in with a progress report about the state of foodservice supply chains and supplier-buyer relationships.

Aptean Launches Integrated CRM for its Food and Beverage ERP Solutions

July 15, 2021

SupplyChainBrain

Aptean, a global provider of mission-critical enterprise software solutions, announced the launch of new, integrated Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software for their Food and Beverage Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) products.

Descartes Acquires GreenMile

July 8, 2021

SupplyChainBrain

Descartes Systems Group, a supply chain solutions provider, has announce its acquisition of GreenMile, a provider of cloud-based mobile route execution solutions for food, beverage, and broader distribution verticals.

Shipping Chaos Kills 1,800 Cows, Fueling Calls for Animal Ban

July 8, 2021

Bloomberg

The pandemic has worsened conditions for the roughly 2 billion cows, sheep, goats, pigs and chickens that are exported each year, and epidemiologists have joined the calls for reform.

VIDEO

Watch: Impact of the Western U.S. Megadrought on Food Supply Chains

July 6, 2021

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Phil Renaud, executive director of The Risk Institute in the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University, discusses how the persistent drought in the western U.S. is forcing food supply chains to rethink their sourcing strategies, as well as pursue longer-term initiatives for coping with the effects of climate change.

Food & Beverage

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