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How Technology Innovation Transforms the Cold Chain

Sudarsan Thattai

Risk/Compliance

Foodservice Industry Prepares for Big Challenges on Many Fronts

From the FSMA to labor regulations to changing consumer demands and more.

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Software Solutions

Food Logistics Industry Embraces Big Data to Optimize the Supply Chain

Organizations must maintain a real-time view of the holistic supply chain that connects restaurants with the entire logistics ecosystem.

Arvind Venugopal, senior product manager at Cleo.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

SOLAS Ocean Container Weight Rule Takes Effect

Safety requirement pushes maritime industry to better organize their information management.

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Leading Carriers Investing in Real-Time Tracking Solutions

Enhanced visibility and control are important benefits for temperature-sensitive cargoes.

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Software Solutions

How ‘Hypermodal’ Trade will Transform Logistics

Report explores how Big Data and analytics are removing logistics efficiencies.

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Are You Ready for FSMA?

Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

Food and Drug Administration takes a non-prescriptive approach to improving food safety.

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Robotics and Automation: Evolution, not Revolution

Robots take on more picking, sorting and packaging as technology advances.

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Software Solutions

Honeywell Nears Agreement to Acquire JDA Software for Around $3 Billion

Honeywell International

The acquisition would boost Honeywell’s shift into software, as opposed to the heavy goods like jet engines and building control systems for which the company is best known.

Honeywell International Inc. is nearing a deal to acquire JDA Software Group Inc., a maker of software that helps businesses manage their supply chains, according to a person familiar with the matter, according to MarketWatch.

The Fresh Market Signs Wholesale/Distribution Agreement with Supervalu

In its role as grocery wholesaler, Supervalu will supply The Fresh Market with traditional and signature grocery products across a range of categories including meat, deli, bakery, grocery, frozen foods and dairy.

The Fresh Market, Inc. operates 176 stores in 24 states across the U.S.

Emerging Technologies

IBM Demonstrates How Big Data Speeds Foodborne Illness Investigations

Leveraging retail scanner data with spatial information collected at any grocery store/supermarket along with the confirmed geo-coded cases reported from the public health agency makes it possible to quickly identify a small set of “suspect” products.

IBM researchers believe the availability of electronic retail scanner data with new analytics and laboratory techniques can hugely accelerate outbreak investigation and aid public health agency in that mission at the county, state, and national levels. The potential benefits of this opportunity include reducing the costs of foodborne illness (now $9 billion annually in the U.S.) and of economic losses from outbreaks and recalls.

Email Campaign Urges McDonald’s to Remove Antibiotics from Global Livestock

McDonald's Corp.

U.K.-based ShareAction has launched an online action enabling people to email Steve Easterbrook, the CEO of McDonald’s Corporation, calling on him to stop the routine use of antibiotics in the company’s global livestock supply chains.

ShareAction, U.K.-based responsible investment charity, has launched an online action enabling people to email Steve Easterbrook, the CEO of McDonald’s Corporation, calling on him to stop the routine use of antibiotics in the company’s global livestock supply chains.

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