Food & Beverage

Baidu Aims for 'Android' of Robocar Tech With Open-Source Apollo Platform

November 9, 2017

Baidu President Ya-Qin Zhang has a mild-mannered style at odds with his bold goals for "Apollo," the fast-growing, open-source self-driving car platform the Chinese tech giant launched in July.

Investigation Highlights Labor Abuses in U.K. Supermarket Supply Chains

November 8, 2017

Supply Management

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has urged the government to do more to ensure the safety of supply chain workers, following revelations of labour abuses at farms supplying U.K. supermarkets.

Supply Chain Analysis -- Sourcing Optimization Driving Supply Chain Decision Making

November 7, 2017

Armada

France, Land of Croissants, Finds Butter Vanishing From Shelves

November 7, 2017

The New York Times

It's hard to imagine a country where butter is taken more seriously than it is in France.

Amazon's Push Into Pharmacy Business Is Full of Promise and Pitfalls

November 7, 2017

The Wall Street Journal

A move by Amazon.com Inc. into the $412bn pharmacy business would shake up how generations have gotten their medicines, but success could prove elusive even for the ever-expanding e-retailer.

Chinese Scientists Create Cost-Saving, Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs

November 6, 2017

NPR

Here's something that may sound like a contradiction in terms: low-fat pigs. But that's exactly what Chinese scientists have created using new genetic engineering techniques.

Inspection Battle Threatens Egypt's Wheat Supply

November 3, 2017

Reuters

Wheat shipments to Egypt, the world's largest buyer, are being disrupted by a dispute involving government inspectors angered by a ban on the expenses-paid foreign trips they once enjoyed to approve cargoes at their ports of origin.

Latest Use for Bitcoin Technology: Tracing Turkeys From Farm to Table

November 3, 2017

The Wall Street Journal

Agricultural conglomerate Cargill Inc. aims to harness the technology underlying bitcoin to let shoppers trace their turkeys from the store to the farm that raised them.

Nestlé, Hershey and Mars Broke Promises Over Palm Oil Use, Watchdog Says

November 3, 2017

The Guardian

Nestlé, Mars and Hershey were accused of breaking pledges to stop using "conflict palm oil" from deforested Indonesian jungles just days before the annual Halloween confectionery frenzy.

Extreme Weather Knocks Global Wine Production to 50-Year Low

November 2, 2017

Supply Management

Global wine production is set fall this year to its lowest level since 1961 after extreme weather caused damage to vineyards in western Europe - the world's largest wine-growing area.

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.