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Warehousing
Warehouse Automation Shifts Into High Gear
Meeting the demands associated with omni-channel fulfillment, SKU proliferation, and increased efficiency is generating more interest in the benefits of automating the warehouse.
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Automation
Warehouse Software: Innovation Tracks Changing Market Demands
As single-order fulfillment explodes and new regulations arrive, users must scrutinize provider capabilities.
The AFS Technologies' WMS software allows Organically Grown Produce Co. to manage inventory accurately. The single-scan traceability has been a big benefit for the Eugene, Ore. distributor.
Emerging Technologies
Are We Ready For The ‘Internet Of Food’?
There is a range of food apps which can help you track the values of the food you eat, but a group of researchers has argued that these apps have limited scope and varying degrees of accuracy.
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Emerging Technologies
IBM Develops Blockchain Technology To Make Businesses More Efficient, Including Food Supply Chain
IBM
The company is launching what it’s calling “blockchain-as-a-service,” or a set of tools for "creating, deploying, running, and monitoring blockchain applications on the IBM Cloud.”
IBM has announced that it is working to make blockchain technology—which was refined and popularized by the digital currency bitcoin—easier for businesses to use for financial and non-financial purposes, including delivering food.
Grocery Retail
Delivery.com And Foursquare Integrate To Improve Local Food Ordering
The integration, facilitated by the mobile commerce platform Button, provides new consumer experiences for millions of delivery.com and Foursquare users in cities all across the country.
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Transportation
Panera Bread Co. To Expand Delivery Services
The St. Louis-based company expects to have delivery offerings in 200 to 300 of its 1,972 company and franchised units by the end of the year, said Ron Shaich, Panera founder, chairman and CEO.
The St. Louis-based company expects to have delivery offerings in 200 to 300 of its 1,972 company and franchised units by the end of the year, said Ron Shaich, Panera founder, chairman and CEO, in an earnings call with analysts.
Warehousing
Hostess Turnaround Story: How Logistics Made A Difference
The resurrection of Hostess Brands Inc., producer of one of America’s favorite snacks, represents the logistics promise to today’s food industry.
In the Hostess story, all supply chain players – the manufacturer, its suppliers, its retailer customers and its logistics provider – worked together to rescue a cherished snack brand.
Warehousing
Uber Prepares Food Delivery App In 10 Cities
Uber Eats
In the coming weeks customers in such cities as Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Austin, Texas, will be able to use a new UberEats app to order from the full menus of dozens of local restaurants and have their food delivered by an Uber driver.
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Packaging
‘Digital Watermarking’ Partnership Launches, Making Product Scanning Faster And Easier
Digimarc Corp.
Digimarc Corp. and GS1 US announced collaborative efforts to speed the industry adoption of watermark barcode technology.
Because it is invisible to consumers in ordinary use, Digimarc's barcode technology can be applied across all surfaces of a product package, which significantly increases the speed of scanning at retail checkout. Retailers benefit from lower costs through greater efficiency, while consumers enjoy a faster checkout experience and the ability to scan Digimarc-enhanced packages with their smartphones to obtain additional product information, pre and post purchase.
Supply Chain Education
Food Logistics and Supply & Demand Chain Executive Launch Supply Chain Learning Center
Supply Chain Learning Center instructors are leading experts in their respective fields, offering the best education and training in the latest strategies available to streamline processes and costs and increase profitability.
The Supply Chain Learning Center offers over 70 courses covering diverse supply chain disciplines, each course customizable to meet specific company needs.
Software & Technology
Warehouse Barcode Scanners Pick Up Speed
From “rings” that workers wear on their hands to modified smartphones, companies are testing alternatives to the “brick on a stick” scanners that have been the industry standard for decades.
James Bonner, general manager of Exel Logistics, a unit of Deutsche Post DHL, said his employees make roughly 3,000 scans each during a 7.5-hour shift. He said that in a three-month test of Zebra’s new device his employees had 10 percent to 20 percent improvement in picking rates—or the speed of assembling orders—in part because they no longer had to push buttons.
Emerging Technologies
Featured In Food Logistics: Are You Prepared For The Brave New World Of IoT?
Gartner Inc.
By 2020, the “connected kitchen” will leverage analytics from sensor-based data and save at least 15 percent of the world’s food and beverage costs, according to Gartner Research.
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