Food & Beverage

VDM - Solving Complex Metal Supply Chain Problems with OMP Plus

November 22, 2017

Pharma Warns of Drug Supply Disruptions Without a Brexit Deal

November 22, 2017

Drugmakers in the EU are warning of drug supply chaos if the U.K. and European Commission can't strike a specific deal covering the approval of medicines before their governmental divorce.

Test Drive IBM's Watson in Factory Simulation

November 22, 2017

Industryweek

The singularly defining moment in Artificial Intelligence (AI) — even bigger than when IBM's Deep Blue beat chess master Garry Kasparov — happened back in in 2011 when the unbeatable Jeopardy! Champion Ken Jennings was finally taken down by IBM's new supercomputer, Watson.

Q&A: Supply Chain Strategies and Challenges at True Value

November 22, 2017

SupplyChainBrain

Every retail company has to cope with the changes mandated by operating in an omnichannel world, and seasonality confronts every one of them with pressures they don't see the rest of the year. But for companies in the retail hardware space, e-commerce and seasonal business peaks carry their own special challenges.

Butterball Is Selling Its First Organic Turkeys Right in Time for Thanksgiving

November 22, 2017

Fortune

America's iconic turkey brand is going organic.

Why Builders of Big L.A. Projects Are Making Concrete With Gravel and Sand Shipped From Canada

November 21, 2017

Los Angeles Times

The 519 miles of L.A.'s freeway system. Dodger Stadium. City Hall. All built with concrete filled with rock and sand washed down from Southern California's iconic mountain ranges.

DHL Customers Say They Prefer Root Canals to Late Shipments

November 20, 2017

Air Cargo World

In DHL's 2017 Holiday Survey, 27 percent of the integrator's customers surveyed said that they would "rather get a root canal than have personal holiday shipments come late."

Most U.K. Supermarkets Are Falling Short in Fight Against Antibiotics Crisis

November 17, 2017

The Guardian

Most of the U.K.'s biggest supermarket chains are falling short on measures to reduce the use of antibiotics in the production of the meat and animal products they sell, campaigners have warned, with potentially harmful impacts on human health.

Someone Figured Out How to Put Tomatoes on a Blockchain

November 16, 2017

Bloomberg

Intrigued by how blockchain was changing finance, an ex-banker at Wells Fargo & Co. and a former executive at Nasdaq Inc. began looking for other opportunities. They looked at applying the technology to insurance, law, even music. Then they hit on farming.

Rise in Warehouse Automation Fuels Fire Risk, Too

November 16, 2017

Industryweek

A robotic material handling unit zips through a global toy manufacturer's six-story distribution center. As the unit retrieves an open-top plastic container filled with freshly molded toy planes from an automatic storage and retrieval system (ASRS), sparks from a frayed electrical cable on the robot fly everywhere, igniting both the toy planes and the plastic container in which they are stored.

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.