Food & Beverage

Building the Business Case for Voice: A Roundtable Discussion Part 1

November 12, 2013

Randy Vier, Wendy Smith, Dennis Merchant and Scott Deutsch

Building the Business Case for Voice: A Roundtable Discussion Part 2

November 12, 2013

Randy Vier, Wendy Smith, Dennis Merchant and Scott Deutsch

Anti-Mold Food Packaging is in Development

November 11, 2013

Telegraph

Plastic bags that can stop bread and cheese from going moldy after just a few days have been developed by scientists. The technology, which uses chemicals that prevent bacteria and fungi from growing, allows food to last for longer.

Kellogg's Focuses on Supply Chain Cost Savings

November 11, 2013

Supply Chain Standard

Supply chain optimization is at the heart of a four-year plan by Kellogg's to save up to $475m a year by 2018. The company estimates that by the end of 2017, Project K will reduce the company's global workforce by about seven percent.

Riding the Peaks and Valleys of Retail Demand

November 11, 2013

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Black Friday looms, and with it the onset of the year's peak retail shopping season.

Orchestro Develops Retail Tracking App for the iPad

November 8, 2013

Orchestro

Orchestro has made its retail product-monitoring application available on the iPad.

Consumer Goods Supply Chains: The Next Five Years

November 7, 2013

SupplyChainBrain

Brenda Hambleton, chief marketing and strategy officer with ES3, details the biggest challenges that consumer-goods producers will be facing in their supply chains over the next five years.

Cutback in Government Food Stamp Program to Affect Food Retailers

November 6, 2013

Los Angeles Times

U.S. food retailers are poised to take a hit as the federal government reduces its $78bn-a-year food stamp program.

The Role of the Wholesale Distributor in the Supply Chain

November 6, 2013

Robert Eastman, Senior Analyst, SCM, Technology Evaluation Centers

Most Companies Require Continuous, Real-time Intel. Too Bad They Don't Have It.

November 1, 2013

ChainLink Research

Time-critical decisions in transportation, risk management, security, disaster response, manufacturing, and other operational domains require continuous real-time situational awareness and intelligence. Most enterprise systems do not provide this today.

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.