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Top 20 Warehouse Automation Suppliers Worldwide

Logistics Viewpoints

ARC Advisory Group began conducting formalized research on the global warehouse automation market in 2014. In my own defense, things kind of took off after 2014. However, Witron also conducts business outside of food and beverage, such as the development of a global distribution center for Pepperl+Fuchs in Singapore.

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Is Your Halloween Candy Responsibly Sourced?

SupplyShift

Source Trust is a nonprofit founded by swiss chocolatier Lindt with the goal of transforming farmer livelihoods through grower training and community assistance. Other brand-name chocolate companies that partner with Source Trust include Ferrero, Hershey, Fazer and Meiji. The post Is Your Halloween Candy Responsibly Sourced?

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Is Your Halloween Candy Responsibly Sourced?

SupplyShift

Source Trust is a nonprofit founded by swiss chocolatier Lindt with the goal of transforming farmer livelihoods through grower training and community assistance. Other brand-name chocolate companies that partner with Source Trust include Ferrero, Hershey, Fazer and Meiji. The post Is Your Halloween Candy Responsibly Sourced?

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The Fight of the Titans

Supply Chain Shaman

The field of supply chain management–combining source, make and deliver–into a common process started in 1982. The source of the data is public reporting of balance sheet information. Coca-Cola and PepsiCo pioneered the global distributor model for carbonated beverages. The evolution sprung from chaos. I was wrong.

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How Big Food and Beverage Could Revolutionize the Natural Movement

Elementum

It just means changing up their sourcing and working with suppliers to make those changes. Nature’s Path did that in 2014, buying 2,800 acres of cropland to grow cereal grains. The issue is cost: consumers don’t want to pay exorbitant amounts to get food they perceive as healthy.

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My Take: E2open Buys Terra Technology

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the last decade the use of Terra Technology’s DS product improved short-term demand forecasts by 37% at 13 consumer products, and food and beverage companies. In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting. The Company has a checkered past.

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Oil & Gas Companies Focus on Eliminating Supply Chain Waste

Talking Logistics

But by 2014, the U.S. Source: “The Future of Natural Gas: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study,” [link]. A perfect example of where this phrase applies is the Oil and Gas industry, especially here in the United States where we’ve seen significant change and volatility over the past 5+ years. As the table below shows, back in 2008, the U.S.