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Grocery Retail
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.
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Supply Chain Visibility
How Denny’s Franchisees Manage Purchasing Through Their Supply Chain Oversight Committee
Denny's, with its 1,599 franchises in the United States, has advisory councils, which offer advice from franchisee delegates to a willing-to-listen franchisor.
As the original home of all-day breakfast, Denny’s serves more than 400 million eggs each year, including classic breakfast items such as the signature Build Your Own Grand Slam®, Omelettes and delicious Skillets.
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.
Automation
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.
Software Solutions
Traceability Software to Reduce Slavery in Supply Chain
By using the Farmforce and SourceTrace software, National Fish believes it can avoid any connection to forced labor
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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Supply Chain Visibility
Centric Software's Product Lifecycle Management Solution Chosen by Triumph
Centric Software, Inc.
The company wanted to improve efficiency, transparency and cost effectiveness with product lifecycle management
Software & Technology
Whole Foods Market To Pay $500,000 For Misweighing And Mislabeling
After overcharging customers for prepackaged food, Whole Foods Market agreed to pay $500,000 Monday and new standards to ensure more accurate labels.
Weights and Pricing: A Message to Our Customers - Whole Foods Market
Supply Chain Visibility
Featured In Food Logistics: RFID: A Tool For Tracking Products, Assets And More
MHI
While RFID began as a tracking tool for inventory and assets, the emergence of real-time networks has since enabled RFID data to deliver insights in areas such as product status reports and inefficiencies in the supply chain.
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Emerging Technologies
Featured In Food Logistics: The Top 10 ‘Must Reads’ Of 2015
Big data and analytics have become a necessary tool for every business involved in every stage of the global food supply chain. The same can be said for publishing too.
Robots build pallets at the Coca Cola Co. warehouse in Grand Rapids, Mich.
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