Sustainability | Food Logistics

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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.

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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.

Finding a 3PL Partner Who Can Manage Today’s Logistics Challenges

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.

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Welcome to the New Age of Food Logistics

Food Logistics is turning over a new leaf, bringing readers and advertisers great content in a fun, engaging, informative and more user-friendly way.

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How to Choose the Right Forklift Battery

Here's how to choose the right forklift battery for your warehouse.

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China’s Digitalization of Food Supply Chains Underscores What Comes Next

The solution to further modernize Chinese food supply chains entails spiderweb of digital platforms competing to bring foods directly to consumers.

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Businesses and Industries Wrestle with the Worst Supply Chain Bottlenecks to Date

Rapidly rising input costs and product shortages are hitting agriculture particularly hard, as ag commodity prices have flattened and inflation compresses margins.

Supply Chain Group Promotes From Within

Brielle Jaekel, Food Logistics' associate editor, was promoted to managing editor.

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Delivering Clean Power and Performance to Ports

Before transitioning away from tried-and-true internal combustion engines, it’s important to consider all the variables that impact the viability of electrification for your operation.

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U.S. Ports Join Forces to Achieve Climate Change Initiatives

This collaboration entails member ports working together to address climate change on a national and global scale.

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Reusable Plastic Container Offers Sustainable Alternative in Seafood Supply Chains

The Seafood 3419 features product insulation, cost-efficiency, the ability to replace 10-down EPS foam boxes and improved stacking capabilities.

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Prioritizing Assortment Optimization for Better KPIs

The waste within the CPG space comes down to a lack of assortment optimization. Now is the time to focus on assortment optimization.

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Food and Beverage Supply Chain Sustainability is Here to Stay

Transparent and sustainable supply chains bring many benefits to F&B companies, including regulatory compliance, enhanced brand equity, customer loyalty and the ability to attract and retain top supply chain talent.

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Sustainability Performance Increasing in North American Organizations

Highly regulated sectors such as food manufacturing display better sustainability performance and year-over-year improvements.

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ASCM Connect Delivers Cutting-Edge Virtual Education and Thought Leadership

This virtual show, hosted by Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM), takes place Oct. 25-27, via an innovative event platform.

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SCN Summit | Risk Management

December 7, 2021

Discover the ways to implement supply chain risk management, how to get started, what to do next and more.

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Achieving Lights-Out Manufacturing Requires Automation, Robotics

There has been a steady rise in activity and interest in lights-out manufacturing from stakeholders in the past five years because of modern technologies, but it might not be realistic due to significant barriers.

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Companies Showcase Heightened Attention to Managing Social Responsibility and Environmental Governance

Fewer than 7% of contractors and suppliers actively tracked environmental KPIs in 2020.

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Certain Trucking Segments Ready to Go Electric

If trucks became all electric, then about 100 million metric tons of CO2 would be saved from going into the atmosphere

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L.I.N.K. | Lessons from China in Food Sourcing

Associate editor Brielle Jaekel speaks with Xavier Naville, author of the Lettuce Diaries, to learn from his experience working in China in agriculture. He details how we can attribute lessons he learned there to Western industries.

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Incorporate Predictive Software into Day-to-Day Farming Operations

Here is why you should incorporate predicting software into your dairy or farming business.

Finding a 3PL Partner Who Can Manage Today’s Logistics Challenges

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.

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Warehouse Automation: Unlocking the Full Potential of Vertical Farming

Supply chain automation technology can provide vertical farming operations a scalable, adaptable, cost-effective solution for low-footprint vertically stacked installations.

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SAP Allows for Emissions Compliance Through Entire Product Lifecycle

SAP is growing the ability of supply chain companies and manufacturers to track the emissions of their products through their entire lifecycle. The new product allows for greater compliance and consumer transparency towards consumers.

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How Fleet Owners can “Drive” Sustainable Fleet Management

Fleet owners must be open to exploring strategic partnerships both within and outside of the industry to create efficiency in purchasing and equipment management and become educated on the changing ESG dynamics.

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South Carolina Ports Receives $1.3M Grant for Emissions-Reducing Trucks

A&R Logistics and Benore Logistic Systems will use the funds to replace a combined eight diesel freight haulers with new zero-emission, battery electric-powered tractor trucks.

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Net Zero Blockchain Network Tracks Emissions Compliance

TraceCarbon provides a standardized, secure and reliable record of carbon emissions and offsets that companies can trace back to the source for their own records, as well as for reporting purposes to maximize transparency.

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Circular Economy on the Rise of Corporate Agendas Worldwide

Companies are transitioning to focus more on process and product innovation, such as resource recovery and product life extension.

Innovation and optimization of end-of-line packaging and logistics operations provides a critical opportunity to benefit the whole supply chain.

How Transit Packaging Technology and Materials Ensure Food Industry Safety

The key to maintaining and ensuring food safety is through the strategic application of technology and advanced materials across complex global supply chains.

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Electric Truck Refrigeration Technology Providers Zero-Emission Performance

The Supra zero-emission, engineless technology can be applied to battery electric vehicles or run autonomously with conventional engine-driven trucks.

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Out-of-the-Box Solutions Driving Sustainability in Food Logistics

As an industry, we must continue to work together and collaborate with customers to prioritize and realize the benefits of improved efficiency and sustainability across all operations.

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The Importance of Sustainable Yogurt Packaging

Nearly 79% of people indicated that they want low- to zero-waste packaged foods, and that pertains to yogurt packaging containers.

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3 Considerations When Choosing the Right Forklift Fuel

Propane can provide an affordable energy solution for crews who have a small percentage of the overall budget allocated to fuel and equipment costs, or for those just looking to reduce operational costs in general.