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Expert Columnists
The latest content from our collection of Expert Columnists.
Expert Columnists
Guidelines for Expert Columnists in Food Logistics
Check out the guidelines to submit contributed content to Food Logistics, www.FoodLogistics.com.
Expert Columnists
The Next ‘Everything Shortage’ is Coming. Are You Planning for It?
Is another “everything shortage” looming? Some signs point to yes — but our industry is much better prepared this time around.
Expert Columnists
The Impact of Exosuits on Safety
It is becoming clear that exos—when well-implemented—have the potential to significantly enhance the supply chain.
Ocean Ports & Carriers
Major Trade Laws Hinge on the Election: How This Impacts Nearshorers
Here’s the most likely effects that a Trump or Biden administration would have on tariffs, trade regulations, and diplomatic tensions over the next four years.
Supply Chain Visibility
New Data-Sharing Mandates are Forcing Retailers, F&B Partners to Instill Trust and Collaboration
Data sharing among ecosystem partners will be pervasive. The sooner everyone accepts that, the sooner companies can start implementing the kinds of changes that can create competitive advantage and value for all parties.
Grocery Retail
The Future is Omnichannel
Because omnichannel shoppers engage more frequently and through multiple channels, they have a higher lifetime value.
Food Safety
Building a Strong Food Safety Culture Across the Food Supply Chain
Organizations across the supply chain must build and maintain strong food safety cultures by elevating their food safety standards, reducing chemical dependency, harnessing advanced technologies, embracing sustainability, and fostering strong leadership.
Food Safety
How Recall Response Optimizes Food Supply Chain Safety
Food suppliers are increasingly embracing RAIN RFID tagging to optimize supply chain safety and ensure real-time insights into product origins, journey stops and expiration dates.
Automation
The Importance of Early Tech Adoption
To reap the benefits and scale your business effectively, invest in these systems during the formative years of your business. Here’s why.
3PL/4PL
Harvesting Success This Produce Season
A carrier with a strong reputation, the latest technology and equipment, and the ability to scale will be the best partner to handle both the season’s opportunities and challenges.
Emerging Technologies
How IoT-Enabled Technology Helps Facilitate Food Waste Reduction
These IoT-enabled technologies are a critical tool to facilitate impactful progress in the fight for sustainability.
Grocery Retail
How Sustainable Modular Solutions Accelerate Growth in Grocery Omnichannel
What was once an ugly word for grocers resistant to change, omnichannel now represents untapped opportunity for growth. For grocers, the promise of the omnichannel is here to stay.
Grocery Retail
Demand for Frozen Food is Increasing. How Can Companies Keep Up?
Learn more about how these innovations such as leveraging digital twins, computer vision, and machine learning are overcoming key industry challenges.
Expert Columnists
Can AI Tech Attract Gen Z to a Logistics Career?
There is hope to make careers in the warehouse a strong fit for Gen Z, but companies must act soon and embracing better technology for their workers should be their first step.
Cold Chain
The Advantages of Zone Skipping for Temperature-Controlled Freight
Zone skipping for perishable freight offers shippers a way to save money while ensuring their freight gets there faster, safer, and more sustainable.
Trucking
How Business Flexibility and Sophisticated Data are Reshaping Fleet Operations in 2024
Organizations with transportation fleets must adapt financial strategies, budgeting/forecasts, and operational approaches to mitigate the impact of volatility in the economy.
3PL/4PL
4 Tips All Shippers Should Follow This Produce Season
To help successfully plan for your reefer needs this year, it's important to understand why produce season affects capacity everywhere — not just in produce regions — and for everyone — not just produce shippers.
Ocean Ports & Carriers
What Shippers Need to Know: Why Emissions is Key to Sustainability
Measuring and understanding scope 3 emissions takes time and a trusted partner, and reducing emissions tends to require more long-term solutions.
Risk/Compliance
How ID Verification Can Combat Cargo Theft
By implementing advanced ID verification processes, businesses can ascertain and authenticate the identities of drivers and personnel involved at every stage of logistics operations.
Micro-Fulfillment
5 Best Practices to Start Successful Micro-Fulfillment Centers
With proper planning, resources, and technology, businesses can service customer needs, achieve profitability, and reduce delivery times at the same time.
Risk/Compliance
Steps to Mitigate Risk in Cargo Theft
Trust and cross-industry cooperation, in addition to utilizing prevention methods informed by data, will best position organizations to efficiently maintain risk mitigation against rising threats such as theft.
AI/AR
Leveraging Diverse Generational Skills for AI-Driven Logistics Success
The next five years represent a unique moment of generational equilibrium when all these qualities will co-exist in the logistics workforce. This is a golden opportunity that the industry should seize.
AI/AR
Leveraging AI and Automation in Food Logistics for Seamless Operations
The strategic application of AI and automation in inventory management and demand forecasting represents significant opportunities for the food logistics supply chain. Here's how.
AI/AR
4 Ways to Make AI Work for Food Suppliers
Navigating the sea of AI service providers, choosing the right solution and getting up and running as quickly and smoothly as possible comes down to these four steps.