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Implementing Visibility to Reduce Risk Along the Cold Chain: Knowledge is Power
Kathy Fulton, executive director of American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN), details why companies should be on the lookout for not just the common disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes and cyberattacks, but also the unusual ones they might never see coming.
Risk/Compliance
Implementing Visibility to Reduce Risk Along the Cold Chain
Software Solutions
Food Traceability Platform Gives Lightning-Fast, Item-Level Traceability and Visibility
3PL/4PL
What the Clean Label Trend Means for 3PLs
Supply Chain Visibility
How New Food Traceability Features Connect Customers to Farmers
Food Safety
IoT-Enabled Pallets for Tracking Perishable Goods
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Risk/Compliance
Implementing Visibility to Reduce Risk Along the Cold Chain
Disruptions continue to challenge the nation’s supply chains, but it’s how companies prepare and react that provide that added layer of risk protection needed to overturn supply chain disruptions.
Supply Chain Visibility
Supply Chain Industry Experts Discuss Future of Supply Chains
SCN Summit: State of the Supply Chain Week kicks off Dec. 6 with a discussion on warehouse automation and e-commerce fulfillment, followed by Industry Outlooks, procurement, transportation, procurement, risk management and smart manufacturing.
Sponsored
Finding a 3PL Partner Who Can Manage Today’s Logistics Challenges
In a world full of supply-chain disruptions, it’s more important than ever to maintain a predictable, repeatable and efficient less-than-truckload (LTL) cold chain.
Latest
Cold Storage
Utilizing the Supply Chain as a Preventive Control Through Real-Time Monitoring
Implementing a real-time supply chain monitoring program that identifies light and other events—and provides actionable insights—can be a preventive control measure within your programs.
Food Safety
COVID-19, One Year Later: The New Era of Smarter Food Safety Blueprint
It’s important supply chain partners ensure their current use of critical tracking events and key data elements align with the requirements of the New Era of Smarter Food Safety blueprint.
Food Safety
The Role of Technology in Food Safety Culture
As a foundational building block by which all other programs are formed, this concept must be woven across the food supply chain from farmer to consumer.
AI/AR
Modernizing Food Processing with AI
When it comes to food processing, the two biggest benefits to engaging AI are improved quality and safety.
Food Safety
L.I.N.K.: Even Food Safety Relies on Technology
Associate editor Brielle Jaekel sits down with lawyers from Alston & Bird, partner Rachel Lowe and senior associate Sam Jockel to discuss food safety in today’s world and the future.
Cold Chain
3 Best Practices for Shipping Produce
Many consumers opt for organic, locally grown produce, and supply chain companies must adapt to an already precarious process.
Food Safety
New Innovations in Warehouse Temperature Management
Increased visibility into warehouse operations will reduce costs and assure customers that their product is being safely stored in the 21st century “smart cold storage warehouse” of the future.
Food Safety
Post-Ransomware Attack: Is it Time to Return to True Systems Segmentation?
In the end, food companies must balance the process efficiencies and controls that data transmission and functionality over the internet provide with the risk of cyberattacks that cripple production.
Worker Safety
Out With the Masks, In With the Seasonal Cold
After almost a year and a half stuck inside and having to wear a face mask whenever we went into public, our bodies just aren’t used to germs anymore.
Food Safety
7 Reasons to Localize Your Food Supply Chain
Localizing the food supply chain is a great business move that offers significant economic, social and environmental benefits.
Warehousing
Rising Food Import Prices Highlight Need to Source Domestically
Buying American means more jobs in manufacturing, but possibly losses in others like transportation, packaging and warehousing. The key to avoiding this is to have the complete supply chain functioning domestically.
Food Safety
How Modern Freezers and Chillers Improve Food Safety in the Cold Chain
Greg Sheridan, sales manager for FPS Food Process Solutions Corp., talks about freezers and chillers in the cold food space, what to consider when installing new equipment and what companies should be mindful of going forward.
Food Safety
Striving for Sustainability in Global Food Systems
GRI's Sector Program is designed to provide the global best practice for transparency within sectors, helping organizations meet stakeholder expectations for comprehensive and comparable sustainability reporting.
Worker Safety
Safety in Agriculture is Imperative
A recent death of an Oregon farmer during a heat wave exposes the increased need for safety in agriculture.
Regulations
Food Traceability Leadership Consortium to Find a Solution to FDA Regulations
The Food Traceability Leadership Consortium will explore possible solutions to the FDA’s proposed traceability regulations under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
Trucking
L.I.N.K. Live | Food Logistics Editors Talk Inflation, Infrastructure and the Big Shrimp Recall
Marina, Brielle and Mackenna discuss inflation, infrastructure and the big shrimp recall that is dominating the news on this week's #LINKLive.
Packaging
1 in 5 Goods Mislabeled Every Year, Costing Manufacturers $89,000 a Year
Minimizing errors that lead to a need to relabel products is the second biggest challenge manufacturers worldwide face in getting new label designs into production.
WMS/TMS
Warehouse Labels for Food and Beverage Industry
An ideal WMS will handle all aspects of inventory movement, beginning with receiving and extending to putaway, picking, and eventually, shipping.
Sponsored
Finding a 3PL Partner Who Can Manage Today’s Logistics Challenges
In a world full of supply-chain disruptions, it’s more important than ever to maintain a predictable, repeatable and efficient less-than-truckload (LTL) cold chain.
Food Safety
Are Your Docks and Doors Causing Food Safety Risks?
It’s important to utilize the right food equipment in the right ways. Here are three questions to think about.
Food Safety
Obtaining Compliance with Non-Compliant Labeling Issues
Labeling is an issue as regulations continue to change, so it is necessary to comply with the most recent international standards.
Food Safety
Food Labeling: Meeting Consumer Needs with Rigorous Certifications
There is an opportunity to continue to meet U.S. consumers’ desires through rigorous certifications and consumer education around the value of these certifications.
Safety & Security
3M Advances Food Safety Testing
Food safety is top of mind today and 3M pushes it forward with a new testing product.
Food Safety
Ensuring Food Safety, Quality and Consistency in Edibles
Every day creates new challenges, with more ways to infuse cannabinoids to provide customers with the benefit of reliability, consistency, quality, safety and the best experience possible.
Software Solutions
Why Visibility Matters in the Food Supply Chain
Consumers want to know where their food is coming from and companies need to embrace it.
Packaging
Production Line Shutdowns from Labeling Issues Cost Manufacturers $1.31M a Year
More than two-thirds of manufacturers (67%) were having to shut down their production line for 30 minutes if there was a problem with label printing, with an additional 21% saying the line had to be shut down for more than 30 minutes.
Food Safety
Does Mainstream Media Impact Consumer Opinion on Food Safety?
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, consumers are beginning to care more about where their food comes from and the safety measures distributors take to get it in store.
Risk/Compliance
30% of Food and Beverage Execs Expect Another Global Pandemic in Next Four Years
What’s more is, 50% are expecting another global pandemic within the next decade, and 78% are actively preparing for a future global pandemic.
Food Safety
COVID-19 Increases the Need for Food Safety Testing
The food safety testing marketing is expected to grow 16.6% CAGR by 2026.
Food Safety
All Eyes on the Finished Product
Innovative technology can advance the food supply chain’s food safety efforts, but the old-school methods of inspection and audit remain crucial to efficient operations.
