Guest Contributors provide their insights on the food supply, transportation and logistics industries.
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ATCM Reveals Whether a TMS is TRU-ly Strategic
By Anthony Vitiello - Thursday February 21, 2013
A transportation management system (TMS) utilized to its fullest potential, becomes a truly strategic supply chain management tool. TMS can help enforce compliance with all manner of business rules; provide auditability to reveal deviations from planned/approved shipping activities; even deliver insight into the effects of transportation issues on overall product cost. The rub is, not all TMS... -
Food Supply Recall and How IT Increases Efficiency
By Grant Davis - Tuesday February 12, 2013
The American food supply industry is both interesting and massive. With large operations such as food production and delivery, there is a lot of information both processed and maintained. Information Technology (IT) is what makes the machine tick, and without it, businesses across the industry would be faulty at best. A particular focus of this conversation relates directly to supply chain recall... -
Optimization Tools Find Redemption
By Anthony Vitiello - Wednesday February 6, 2013
Remember the grandfatherly Shawshank Redemption character Brooks Hatlen – incarcerated since youth – lamenting his new life outside, on parole, in a letter to his former prison-mates saying, “The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry”? Well, it’s true! Supply chains are being called on to become more efficient and responsive to keep up with the demands of ever stiffening...
Food Logistics Editor-In-Chief Lara Sowinski provides her insights on the food supply, transportation and logistics industries.
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Accelerating Developments in Certified Chocolates
By Maria Hoffman - Wednesday February 6, 2013
Last October Hershey, Pennsylvania-based Hershey Company revealed their plans to a global commitment of having 100 percent certified cocoa beans by 2020. Additionally, at the start of 2013 all of Hershey’s Bliss Chocolates are to be made with cocoa beans sourced from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms. Farms that are certified through the Rainforest Alliance are ecological farms that... -
New Food Labels Create a Safer Food Supply Chain
By Maria Hoffman - Wednesday January 16, 2013
By Maria Hoffman Newhouse, Lanarkshire-based Insignia Technologies will be launching their color-changing labels in the UK with the purpose of decreasing food waste and boosting food safety. Their first product that is set to launch this Spring, is called the Novas Embedded Label , which is integrated into the food packaging film. When the package is opened the color-changing label is... -
Concerns With GMO’s: What’s Next?
By Maria Hoffman - Monday November 12, 2012
By Maria Hoffman Last Wednesday, California voted on whether to approve Proposition 37 , which would require all food manufacturers, distributors and retailers to add labels that identify genetically modified organisms (GMO’s). Proposition 37 has been defeated by 53.7 percent of voters against the mandatory labeling of GMO’s, but the campaign is far from over. “It was really a...
