Food & Beverage

Showpiece Distribution Center for Internet Retailing

September 7, 2012

Challenge: A leading internet electronics retailer's needed to expand its order fulfillment and inventory storage capability to meet continued sales growth. Initial plans were to build a duplicate building on site to double capacity for both.

Wal-Mart to Test System Allowing Customers to Scan Products Before Purchase

September 6, 2012

The Los Angeles Times

Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is testing out a new checkout system that enables shoppers to avoid long lines and scan items in store aisles using their smartphones.

Thrive Technologies Debuts Demand-Forecasting Tool

September 6, 2012

Thrive Technologies Inc.

Thrive Technologies Inc. has released Firstcast, a demand-forecasting service.

Saks to Officially Open DC in Middle Tennessee

September 6, 2012

Saks

Retailer Saks Incorporated is set to celebrate the opening of its new distribution and fulfillment facility in LaVergne, Tenn., this month.

Centralized Transportation Command and Control for Operational and Financial Benefits

September 6, 2012

Challenge: The Company's growth was due to acquisitions that were allowed to continue to manage operations independently. No centralized logistics group existed. The company's 17 manufacturing sites managed their own logistics and operated independently.

WMS Helps Client Achieve 20% Labor Reduction And Increased Efficiency

September 6, 2012

Challenge: A client was facing increasing labor costs, inventory inaccuracies, shipping errors and increased leads times. The client turned to Systems Logic to implement our warehouse management software to enhance and improve their existing business processes and assist them in meeting their challenging company goals.

Global manufacturer tastes sweet success with cloud supply chain platform

September 6, 2012

Challenge: A global manufacturer of 49% food and 51% pet products manages over 3,500 inputs from growers, with 17 U.S. production facilities, 24 devoted to co-packing, 11 distribution centers and more than 550 ship-to locations. Internationally it operates 20 co-packing locations and imports the equivalent of more than 11,000 twenty-foot containers (TEUs) from 48 destinations.

Serialization, Data Management Combat Counterfeiting in Food and Pharmaceutical Supply Chains

September 5, 2012

ChainLink Research

Attention is mounting by consumers, government, industry, and media to address the growing counterfeit challenges in the US.

U.S. Trade with NAFTA Partners in June Up 6.6 Percent Over Same Period in 2011

September 5, 2012

U.S. Department of Transportation

Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners, Canada and Mexico, was 6.6 percent higher in June 2012 than in June 2011, totaling $82.6bn, unadjusted for inflation, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics of the U.S. Department of Transportation.

New Rules for a New Decade: A Vision for Smarter Supply Chain Management

September 5, 2012

IBM

Today's new economic environment is increasingly more volatile, complex and structurally different than in years past, and in few places is this more apparent than in the movement of goods and services.

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.