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Target Corp. To Test Home Delivery For Grocery E-commerce

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Target Corp. plans to begin testing a grocery-delivery service soon as retail rivals stake out space in bringing food to customers' doorsteps.

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Internet-Based Technology Redefines F&B Supply Chain Operations

A Data Explosion Calls For New Logistics Systems

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How Robots Will Tackle Changing F&B Demands

As smaller SKU quantities challenge the food supply chain: robots and automation have a role.

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Temperature Control: The Ongoing Quest In The Food Supply Chain

Technologies create more options, ranging from satellite-based tracking to new refrigerants

Carrier Transicold's NaturLINE uses natural refrigerant carbon dioxide, which can lower carbon emissions by 28 percent compared to previous systems,

Design Considerations For Refrigeration And Cooling

Companies that rely on refrigeration and cooling—and the mechanical systems that power them—should focus carefully on feasibility planning and strategic growth projections when evaluating their facility needs.

Todd Heine is a Principal at Avison Young Corporate Food Services Group that focuses on working with food manufacturing and food distribution companies throughout North America.

How Globalization Challenges Safety In The Food Supply Chain

Safety technologies emerge to close safety gaps.

Sanitation is especially important in areas where pesticides use may be restricted.

Trying To Make Sense Of A DIM Situation

New dimensional weight charges will affect most food and beverage shippers.

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Data Standardization Moves Forward For The Food Supply Chain

GS1 prepares for major release of Global Data Synchronization Network.

The GS1 Global Data Synchronization Network ensures uniform data standards throughout the food supply chain.

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Infor To Acquire GT Nexus For $675 Million

Approximately 25,000 businesses rely on GT Nexus, including six of the top 10 logistics service providers and 30 global financial institutions, all managing more than $100 billion in goods each year using its cloud-based business network.

Failed US Foods Merger Costs Sysco $430 Million

Chief Executive Bill DeLaney said Monday that after a year-and-a-half of investing time and money into integration efforts for that planned deal, Sysco has shifted its focus to smaller acquisitions, internal cost-cutting and updating its technology.

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Quiet Revolution: U.S. Farms Rapidly Adopt Self Driving Tractors And Data Gathering Technology

Data-centric companies with Silicon Valley pedigrees, like 2 1/2-year-old Granular and aerial surveillance startup DroneDeploy, that have the ability to tap into all this machinery and run farms as efficiently as Google runs its data centers.

John Deere has been selling self-driving tractors for 15 years.

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China’s Internet Giants Harness Order/Delivery Apps To Battle Western Food Chains

Wooing customers with discounted dishes and the choice of thousands of restaurants, startups backed by the likes of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. are enjoying brisk business as more diners opt to order in.

The growing fleet of motorbike couriers on Chinese roads is the latest challenge to long-established but struggling Western companies such as McDonald’s Corp. and Yum Brands Inc., which owns KFC and Pizza Hut outlets.

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