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The Wholesale Food Distribution Industry: A Guide for 2022

Unleashed

Whether you’re planning on purchasing products from a food wholesaler, or thinking about moving into food wholesaling yourself, this overview of the industry – and what its future holds – is for you. Food wholesalers warehouse products in bulk, then provide usable amounts to businesses – from restaurants to hospitals.

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National Barcode Day 2022

Enterra Insights

Most of us understand that barcodes contain information that help retailers track inventory; however, few of us know much more about them. This gives a business constant access to up-to-date data, allowing it to quickly calculate meaningful metrics like inventory turn, value of inventory on-hand or sales per week by item.”

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This Could Be Scary: A Halloween Candy Shortage

Enterra Insights

When you boil it down, a product’s shelf life is very short and if you don’t sell it, that inventory will be discounted shrinking already razor thin margins. After all, you don’t want to disappoint your junk food-seeking juveniles. 1] Mehr Bedi, “ Hershey warns of Halloween candy shortage ,” Reuters, 28 July 2022. [2]

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The Real Winner at the 2022 World Cup? Supply Chain.

BlueYonder

The entire world is gearing up for the 2022 FIFA World Cup , held in Qatar from Nov. Consumers will be looking for certain food and beverage brands that make them feel like they’re on their home turf. According to FIFA, a staggering 3.572 billon people watched the 2018 World Cup Russia, with 1.12 20 through Dec.

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The Machine Learning Trap or How to Tell if You’ve Got the Right Waiter

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Afterwards, the waiter briefly thought about the answer and came back an hour later with the food, which ended up being the highlight of the vacation. Kai Keppner has written for the All Things Supply Chain Blog (formerly: ISCO Blog) since it was established in 2012 and assumed the role of editor-in-chief in October 2018.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

Japan farm exports in 2022 1st half hit record high as more dine out. Demand for grocery delivery cools as food costs rise. will begin imposing 2022 peak-season surcharges on Labor Day and will apply certain ones based on weekly calculations that begin around mid-October and run until early December. 7-Eleven Inc.

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Learnings from Target’s 2024 Financial and Operational Performance

Supply Chain Matters

based retailers would provide the best indicators of retail industry customer fulfillment trends including various changing strategies in inventory management and customer fulfilment efforts, along with restoring higher profitability levels. We have specifically indicated to our readership that three specific U.S. percent to $5.7