QAD

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Updated: February 15, 2024 Published: March 25, 2021 If I think back to my childhood days and recall the shopping experience for food & beverage products, my first thoughts are about local grocery stores and smaller neighborhood specialty shops. Over the last 25 or so years, the food & beverage value chain has exploded.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 26, 2020

This global health crisis has uncovered vulnerabilities in our food supply chains, affecting the capacity of food retailers to ensure its continuity. Supermarkets are heavily impacted by unexpected peaks in demand and product unavailability from areas that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Consumer goods article and permission to publish here provided by Wouter Nederkoorn. We all know and regularly purchase Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG, often also referred to as Consumer Packaged Goods, or CPG). The post Will Consumer Goods Be Stronger from the Pandemic? Get Our EBOOK HERE.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

I recently had the opportunity to speak at the Agro&Food Security Forum in Warsaw, Poland. This is a new and very important platform for the global dialogue in the search for effective solutions to ensure global food security. If recent years have shown us anything, it is how fragile the world’s food and agriculture systems are.

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Vecco International

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Large global consumer goods companies with a combination of internal manufacturing and outsourcing must effectively predict demand and manage complex multi-national supply chain networks to ensure on-time in full delivery to their retail customers such as WalMart, CostCo, Amazon, QVC.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 19, 2020

The novel coronavirus outbreak piqued interest in supply chain operations, particularly in the food supply chain. As a result, most employees in the food supply chain were considered essential workers and ensuring their safety became a national priority. food supply chain for future pandemics and national security preparedness.

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Material Handling & Logistics

MAY 7, 2018

"Today, any company wanting to assess the sustainability of their value chains faces a confusing array of different technical standards and auditing approaches,” Peter Freedman, managing director, The Consumer Goods Forum.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

A December Labor Department report shows that the price of consumer goods increased by 6.8% With all these burning questions, we reached out to our consumer-packaged goods (CPG) and manufacturing expert and CVP of Industry Strategies, Shri Hariharan , to get some answers. And these worries aren’t unfounded.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 8, 2023

Shane is Founder and CEO of Square1 Distribution & Logistics , a 3PL Warehouse that focuses on the Beauty and Packaged Food sectors. He is the Founder and CEO of Square1 Distribution & Logistics, a 3PL Warehouse that focuses on the Beauty and Packaged Food sectors. He is also a US Army veteran.

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Logility

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Consumer Goods Technology recently released its 2012 Consumer Goods Technology Reader’s Choice survey results. " Aggressive competitors, margin erosion, and quickly changing consumer preferences and behaviors pose serious challenges to the consumer goods industry. Success Story: Kraft Foods.

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QAD

MARCH 25, 2021

If I think back to my teenage years and recall the shopping experience for food & beverage products, my first thoughts are about local grocery stores and smaller neighborhood specialty shops. Over the last 25 or so years, the food & beverage value chain has exploded. That was the value chain. Instead, the reverse has happened.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 4, 2023

Eight supply chains – food, construction, fashion, fast-moving consumer goods, electronics, automotive, professional services and freight – account for more than 50% of global emissions.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 11, 2020

This is particularly true in the food manufacturing industry, which characteristically has a high volume of products stored, and an urgent need to fill existing client orders to match ongoing consumer demand. Good food manufacturing software provides a means to track inventory in real-time, through every step of the supply chain.

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RFgen

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The food and beverage industry’s future lies in smart manufacturing technologies that will automate operations and drive growth. True success for food companies will occur when smart manufacturing trends are integrated into critical business systems like ERPs. Perfect data collection is required in an age of smart manufacturing.

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RFgen

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The food and beverage industry’s future lies in smart manufacturing technologies that will automate operations and drive growth. True success for food companies will occur when smart manufacturing trends are integrated into critical business systems like ERPs. Perfect data collection is required in an age of smart manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 16, 2017

Amazon’s announcement of its acquisition of Whole Foods Market will be a landmark business move that has far reaching effects to the Consumer Chain and the way CPG suppliers go to market. billion (with a “B”) for our beloved Whole Foods Market. There are so many pleasures of life in Austin, Texas. Supplier Reactions.

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Turvo

JANUARY 20, 2021

Reimagining the Food Supply Chain. In theory, when the supply chain is functioning optimally, it is a smooth transition from start to finish, from raw materials to finished goods. While this may be fine for the nuts and bolts, it can pose some serious issues for more delicate products, specifically food.

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The food and beverage industry faces unprecedented challenges brought by COVID-19, including demand shifts, shutdowns and unpredictability. Food and beverage manufacturers have made quick adjustments to stay operational in the face of COVID-19. Shifting Production to Meet Changing Demand. Demand fluctuations aren’t the only concern.

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crisp

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The award recognizes Crisp’s Head of Supply Chain Barry Bradley’s leadership and innovation in the food supply chain – and the achievements throughout his career in retail & CPG that have come to shape it. Food Logistics has named Barry Bradley, Head of Supply Chain at Crisp, as one of their 2023 Rock Stars of the Supply Chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Mr. Master’s experience at Simmons Foods illustrates many of the distinct characteristics and challenges related to freight procurement. Simmons Foods Simmons Foods is a farm to fork poultry manufacturer. They are a leading supplier of poultry, pet food and animal nutrition products based in Siloam Springs, Arkansas in the US.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Nulogy, for example, is a platform for collaboration between consumer goods brands and their copacker and comanufacturing partners. Chris Castle, the vice president of product management at Nulogy, said that collaboration in the consumer goods industry was more even handed than in industries like automotive.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Andrew Lynch is President and co-founder of Zipline Logistics , an award-winning North American 3PL that specializes exclusively in the transportation of retail consumer goods. Zipline Logistics was selected as an Inc. Key Takeaways: The True Cost of OTIF Failure.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

And how can consumer goods companies learn from their performance in this pandemic to prepare for the future? They provide these solutions to some of the largest consumer goods and food & beverage companies in the world. It was a time of need, and demand for essential goods was high. 2020 was different.

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Zipline Logistics

MAY 25, 2021

Everything from food and beverage products to home improvement items saw a significant consumption bump as buyers, sidelined by pandemic restrictions, diverted their purchasing habits from experiences to consumer goods. Retail sales, including food services, increased 9.8% sequentially in March.

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Logility

JUNE 9, 2023

The make-to-order flexible packaging business has built a 45-year legacy of designing, manufacturing, and delivering innovative, food-grade packaging for companies like Costco Wholesale, Hill’s Pet Nutrition, The J.M. Smucker Company, Kellogg’s, and Mars Petcare. Ensuring that every customer wins is a core value of PPC.

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Material Handling & Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

billion tons of food worldwide is lost or wasted each year and confusion around labeling costs US consumers $29 billion. So, The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) – a network of 400 of the biggest consumer goods companies across 70 countries – along with Champions 12.3 An estimated 1.3 Champions 12.3

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The food and beverage industry faces unprecedented challenges brought by COVID-19, including demand shifts, shutdowns and unpredictability. Food and beverage manufacturers have made quick adjustments to stay operational in the face of COVID-19. Shifting Production to Meet Changing Demand. Demand fluctuations aren’t the only concern.

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EHS Sustainability Knowledge at Work

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Changing how consumers engage and interact with the food and drink they consume is seen as a big part of the sustainable supply chain conundrum. If people can understand where and how their goods are made, there is a better chance of incentivising more ethical and responsible production further down the chain.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 27, 2022

Department of Agriculture (USDA) has raised its 2022 food inflation forecasts again reports Jim Wiesemeyer ( @Jim_Wiesemeyer ).[1] 1] This means today’s grocery food price hikes are the highest in 42 Years. ”[2] Their research found, “Consumer prices for food, personal care, and household items are up 13.9%

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 16, 2021

One of the least welcome consequences of supply chain snarls and labor shortages is rising inflation — and the food industry has been impacted like every other economic sector. Food prices have been on the rise for months. ”[2] The USDA went on to predict, “In 2022, food-at-home prices are expected to increase between 1.5

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Health-conscious consumers have always had an insatiable appetite for fresh meats and seafood, right-from-grove/garden fruits and vegetables, dairy, cheese, and straight-from-the-oven bakery. For the most part, the retail market for fresh foods thrived throughout the pandemic, according to the Supermarket News 2021 Fresh Foods Trends Report.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 23, 2021

”[1] According to McGrath, Americans are the biggest offenders producing, per head, “three times the global average of waste, including plastic and food.” ”[3] In fact, a recent poll found that most consumers blame manufacturers for the packaging waste problem. .” ”[8]. .”[9] … The No.

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Sourcemap

JULY 23, 2017

Sourcemap, New York, and Provenance, London, link their digital platforms for supply chain transparency, enabling businesses in the food and fashion industries to map their supply chain, gather data and track verified claims with the movement of product. What does this mean? And that's just the beginning. Interested? Contact us.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 29, 2021

Consumer goods companies across the globe are spending large amounts of time and money trying to manage and utilize massive amounts of data, but they struggle to make sense of it, including automating it to dramatically improve forecasts and make better decisions.

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RFgen

APRIL 19, 2016

Gerber baby food announced a voluntary recall of organic baby food. Consumers that want to eat healthy rely on honesty in companies’ manufacturing data. The brands with a consistent track record of accurate information will appeal to modern consumers wanting the best quality for themselves and their families.

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RFgen

APRIL 19, 2016

Gerber baby food announced a voluntary recall of organic baby food. Consumers that want to eat healthy rely on honesty in companies’ manufacturing data. The brands with a consistent track record of accurate information will appeal to modern consumers wanting the best quality for themselves and their families.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For months, consumers have watched their budgets tighten as food prices have risen. Journalist Hillary Hoffower ( @hillary_tweets ) observes, “Americans’ pockets are hurting the most when it comes to food. ”[1] Unfortunately, most pundits predict food prices will only continue to rise. .”[1]

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