Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

PepsiCo is a very big company, the second largest food and beverage company in the world. PepsiCo generated $79 billion in net revenue in 2021, with 23 food and beverage brands that generate more than $1 billion each in retail sales. Because of the food giant’s size, their sustainability strategy also is very broad.

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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% Increased demand did more than spur revenue growth at CPGs.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

But the single most important Supply Chain is the Food Supply Chain! Our very survival depends on there even being a Food Supply Chain. On one hand there is a horrendously large amount of Food Waste. The Food Supply Chain, the most important Supply Chain in the World, is BROKEN! Food Waste. Video Source: [link].

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Material Handling & Logistics

MAY 2, 2018

For organizations that source products from suppliers in remote regions, blockchain can provide clarity in an otherwise murky journey from harvest to retail. According to the United Nations, one in nine people today—or 815 million globally—lack access to the food necessary to lead a healthy lifestyle. World hunger is a global epidemic.

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Zipline Logistics

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Since much of the previous year in business and elsewhere was defined by a global pandemic, we are left asking what will 2021 look like for food and beverage shippers. Food trends had an interesting 12 months as things changed quite a bit throughout the course of COVID-19. Plant Products Continue Food Trend Prevalence .

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ThroughPut

MAY 25, 2021

How To Leverage The Benefits Of S&OP For The Food And Beverage Industry? Supply chain-focused organizations like the food and beverages industry can turn the tide with an efficient S&OP process and improve their overall business performance. How different is S&OP in the volatile world of the food and beverage industry?

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

The next posts in the series will break down metrics and issues to consider in SQM by industry and conclude with a case study on the application of SQM. 5 Key Metrics to Use for Scoring Supplier Quality Management (From LNS Research ). The definition of this metric is similar to the way it sounds. Cost of quality.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 18, 2018

Financial reengineering focuses on the optimization of short-term results that are usually based on a functional analysis of source, make, or deliver. Few consultants understand the interrelationships between source, make and deliver. Snow fell last night as I worked on my last Supply Chain Metrics That Matter report.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 28, 2016

The supply chain is a complex system with finite, and non-linear relationships between supply chain metrics that drive balance sheet results. We find that companies can improve one, but not two of the metrics. Teams struggle to drive improvement in both metrics at the same time. A Look at History. Resiliency.

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ThroughPut

MAY 25, 2021

How To Leverage The Benefits Of S&OP For The Food And Beverage Industry? Supply chain-focused organizations like the food and beverages industry can turn the tide with an efficient S&OP process and improve their overall business performance. How different is S&OP in the volatile world of the food and beverage industry?

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ThroughPut

MAY 25, 2021

Supply chain-focused organizations like the food and beverages industry can turn the tide with an efficient S&OP process and improve their overall business performance. . How different is S&OP in the volatile world of the food and beverage industry? The food and beverage (F&B) industry is however a different game.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 2016

The source data for the analysis is public reporting of balance sheets and income statements. Check out their performance by plotting year-over-year metrics at the intersection of two ratios and look at the patterns. In the analysis of the Supply Chains to Admire, we use PTBV as a proxy metric of value.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 6, 2020

I started to work at General Foods’ largest plant in Dover, DE, in the summer of 1982 at the age of 24. Despite goals to improve agility and resiliency, functional metrics for manufacturing efficiency continually throw the supply chain out of balance. The second step is to align metrics to the strategy. The So What?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 19, 2024

Under the plan, customers will be able send in their extra or damaged Walmart reusable blue shopping bags to TerraCycle who will either wash and donate them to charity partners, including Food Banks Canada, or recycle them. Customers looking to participate can sign up for the program on TerraCycle’s website.

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Alloy

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Get More Out of Your Kroger 84.51° and Market6 Data How Automation and Advanced Metrics You Won’t Get in 84.51° can help you grow your sales at Kroger and avoid inventory headaches. Kroger collaborates with thousands of food and beverage, health, beauty, and personal care companies to service roughly 2,800 stores.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

Continuing Disruptions in Transportation and Sourcing Materials After the pandemic, retailers are faced with new challenges and disruptions due to global conflicts, trade restrictions, and now recessions. Food waste produces 7% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, mainly methane, an extremely potent gas. billion a year.

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Logility

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Increasingly opting for renewable energy sources, where companies turn to sustainable resources and recycled or partially recycled materials when sourcing raw materials; . For example, a fast-food chain may do away with programs that cater to recycling in favor of choosing to use sustainably grown ingredients.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MARCH 13, 2015

I have been working with Jay Golden at Duke University on the biobased forecasting project for the USDA, seeking to understand the current scope of the biobased product market ( focused on non-fuel, non-food products). There is hunger in the market, but it is not caused by a shortage of food. This is a misguided argument.

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QAD

JULY 7, 2022

The concept of ethical sourcing has risen in popularity during the past four years.” . In April 2022, allegations arose claiming children as young as 10 in Ghana , West Africa were harvesting cocoa beans for food industry giant Mondel?z z International, which owns Cadbury. Consumer Buying Trends.

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RFgen

MAY 5, 2016

Food manufacturers have to be constantly vigilant to ensure the safety of their consumers. CNN reported that CRF Frozen Foods expanded their voluntary recall of products in May 2016. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Food Quality and Safety said the U.S. The Danger of Recalls.

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RFgen

MAY 5, 2016

Food manufacturers have to be constantly vigilant to ensure the safety of their consumers. CNN reported that CRF Frozen Foods expanded their voluntary recall of products in May 2016. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Food Quality and Safety said the U.S. The Danger of Recalls.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Manage Make, Source, and Deliver Together. Change internal metrics to a balanced scorecard and force the functions to work better together. There are many barriers: authoritative identifiers, multi-tier processes, and data translation across source, make, and deliver for multi-tiers of trading partners. What to do?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

The most interesting thing that Blue Yonder is doing from an OMS standpoint is driving promising and pre-sourcing to retailers. The data is all anonymous, but retailers can look at metrics such as time to fulfill, pack time, conversions, and ship versus pick-up, to name a few, across hundreds of Active Omni customers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2019

Smaller, more agile companies outperform the larger and well-known brands in the retail, beverages, food, and pharmaceutical industry sectors. The source data for the analysis comes from Ycharts.). We selected these metrics based on correlation work with Arizona State University in 2012. Click the link to see the detail.)

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Supply Chain Collaborator

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

These changes will impact calculations of such critical transportation and logistics metrics as lead times, delivery schedules, routes, mileage and a host of others. The sourcing of goods may shift quickly away from Pacific Rim manufacturers.

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QAD

AUGUST 12, 2021

We will see the continued adoption of a wide range of sustainability efforts across manufacturing verticals, from automotive to food and beverage to life sciences. In other examples, you’ll find ERP provides the necessary insights and metrics, like OEE , to enhance production execution. Sustainability Objectives for Manufacturers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Manage Make, Source, and Deliver Together. Change internal metrics to a balanced scorecard and force the functions to work better together. There are many barriers: authoritative identifiers, multi-tier processes, and data translation across source, make, and deliver for multi-tiers of trading partners. What to do?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

” Corporations serve international markets, and the source of rare minerals (so critical for the evolution of the green supply chain) is primarily Asia. Others argue the demise of global sourcing; might I add caution? Companies need to be aligned to a common set of metrics in a balanced scorecard to mitigate risk.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

On today’s episode we welcome Andrew Lynch, Co-Founder & President of Zipline Logistics, an award-winning logistics service provider that specializes exclusively in the transportation of retail consumer goods and food and beverage products. Capacity & Carrier Metrics Resources to Download. Download E-Book.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Supply chains must be connected and collaborative so all links can align to business strategy and oriented toward a common set of the most important metrics (and not functional metrics that drive siloed behavior). Animals that try to take a bite out of a cactus seeking food or moisture will get bitten back by those thorns.

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QAD

JUNE 28, 2022

As a friend of mine states often, “Consumers previously just wanted to know if their food is organic. Now they want to know what acre of land it was grown on, the source of the water and the living conditions of the workers.” This places food waste as the world’s third-biggest carbon emitter behind China and the United States.

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Silvon Software

APRIL 29, 2022

Key performance indicators (KPIs) in inventory management are metrics that help you monitor and make decisions about your stock. There must be a clearly defined data source with a standardized process for collecting and measuring that data. These types of metrics are Sales KPIs, Receiving KPIs and Operational KPIs. Sales KPIs.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 24, 2024

Food & Beverage giants like Kellog’s reported on the state of breakdown in supply chain management. Delayed delivery of performance metrics and consumer behavior sets off a chain reaction of excess, wastage, and loss of profits. The unavailability of raw materials and changing consumer patterns heavily impacted demand.

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Elementum

AUGUST 31, 2022

The supply chain management process is comprised of a number of steps, which can usually be organized into five categories: Planning and forecasting Sourcing and procurement Manufacturing Logistics Handling returns As demonstrated by the recent food supply chain issues , a failure in one area can lead to disaster.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

Before boarding the plane, I watched a traveler pull a diet Coke from the bin and thought about the struggle to source sweetener with the rise of COV-19. As I poured the dog food into the bowl for my pups, I wondered if I was going to have to switch kibble due to the looming issues of sourcing taurine—a health additive in many pet foods.

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Global Trade Management

JUNE 12, 2023

And how do we know if the food is healthy? Sustainable supply chains emerged as a response to consumer demand for better information about the environmental impact of products, such as food and clothing, that they purchase. Or are inspectors available and reliably integrated to guarantee social sourcing commitments?

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

28% of global retailers have tried to find alternative sourcing options due to supply chain issues (RetailNext, 2020). Source: Consultancy.UK. Image source: Fortune. Within a week of Russian troops crossing into Ukraine, the benchmark for thermal coal prices reached a record high of $446 per metric ton. Consultancy UK).

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