Food & Beverage

Bellona: Electric Revolution Must Start on Land

December 4, 2017

At the COP23 climate conference in Bonn last month, Oslo-based environmental NGO Bellona held a forum on electrification of shipping. While most discussions at the summit centered on zero-emissions land transportation, Bellona held a discussion on what it would take to bring the shoreside electric revolution to the seas.

Pizza Is Partisan, and Companies Are Still Adjusting

December 1, 2017

The New York Times

In today’s political climate, even pizza, bourbon and coffee can be partisan issues.

New Web-Based Tool Detects Illegal Fishing

November 30, 2017

Maritime Executive

Environmental organizations TRAFFIC and WWF along with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have teamed up to develop a new web-based tool to address illegal fishing.

Ford Tests Exoskeletons for Assembly Line Workers

November 30, 2017

Supply Management

Once the purview of science fiction, exoskeletons are slowly working their way into real life. These aids are now being used on manufacturing assembly lines.

'Borneo Atlas' to Help Palm Oil Buyers Check on Forest Damage

November 30, 2017

Reuters

Researchers have created for the first time a detailed map that will help buyers and consumers of palm oil work out whether the supply chain is harming forests on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo.

Three Reasons Demand Planning Has Finally Come of Age

November 29, 2017

SupplyChainBrain, sponsored by Logility

There’s nothing new about the idea of demand planning. Phoenician wine traders, 2,000 years ago, were savvy about staying ahead of fluctuations in demand via a network of merchant informants, and planned supply accordingly. The advent of vastly expanded computer data-processing power, along with the connectivity of the web, has been offering for 20 years or more the attractive proposition of using technology to track and predict demand for goods more accurately.

Largest Cocoa-Producing Countries Agree to Work With Hershey, Nestle, Mars

November 29, 2017

Environmental Leader

Governments of the two largest cocoa-producing countries — Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana — pledged themselves to “Frameworks for Action” with leading chocolate and cocoa companies at COP23 this month to end deforestation and restore forest areas in the cocoa supply chain.

A Fraud or World Changer? A Lot of Companies Are Talking About Cryptocurrency

November 28, 2017

Fortune

J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon thinks bitcoin is a "fraud." Investor Mark Cuban called it "a bubble." Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein is still undecided. But whether or not executives believe in the potential of bitcoin, ethereum or blockchain technology, they and their companies can’t avoid talking about cryptocurrencies.

Robot Makers Fill Their War Chests in Fight Against Amazon

November 28, 2017

Bloomberg

A few years ago, Amazon.com Inc. triggered a robot arms race when it purchased a company called Kiva Systems, maker of automated warehouse robots. Now its would-be rivals are landing bigger and bigger cash injections to try to compete with the e-commerce giant.

Tesla's Electric Semi Truck Gets Orders From Wal-Mart and J.B. Hunt

November 27, 2017

The Wall Street Journal

Some of the country's biggest trucking fleets are among Tesla Inc.'s first customers for its all-electric big rig.

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