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Food Security and National Security

Enterra Insights

The focus of these shows is watching contestants’ search for food and seeing how they deal with the hunger that ultimately results when such efforts prove fruitless. Savage notes that 2022 “was the fourth year in a row that the number in urgent need of food aid has risen.” ”[4] University academics, Thomas S.

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Gordon Food Services Conquers the Last Mile

Logistics Viewpoints

I recently interviewed Al Contreras, Innovation Manager at Gordon Food Service to understand how the company handles last mile deliveries, the role visibility plays, and how a last mile solution has impacted their business. Gordon Food Service (GFS) began its business as a butter and egg delivery service in 1897. percent over 2020.

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Trends 2022: Food and Beverage

Enterra Insights

The International Food Information Council (IFIC) staff writes, “As the world begins year three of the COVID-19 pandemic, we find ourselves in a decade that proves the adage, ‘The only constant is change.’ ’ The food system is hardly immune to turmoil.”[2] Food and Beverage Trends. ”[7].

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Planning Seasonal Food Production in Uncertain Times

DELMIA Quintiq

In any regular year, manufacturers of seasonal foods such as ice cream, beer and BBQ meat have to deal with uncertainty because consumption of their products are highly dependent on food trends and the weather. Demand planning, however, gets even tougher for manufacturers with the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. That’ll be too late.

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Mission Critical: Leveraging Learning Engineering to Drive Digital Transformation

Speaker: Trish Uhl, Founder of Owl's Ledge LLC and the Talent & Learning Analytics Leadership Forum

Join Trish Uhl, creator of the Learning Systems Engineering Framework™, as she shares secrets from the playbook she crafted to address these challenges while consulting on a global supply chain standardization and digitalization traceability project for the world's third largest food manufacturer.

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Logistics Experts from SSI Schaefer Implement Automated Deep-Freeze Warehouse in Manila, Philippines – LogiSYM October/November 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Sustainable deep-freeze logistics secure food supply. Energy-efficient solutions guarantee fresh food. Supplying this urban population with fresh food is difficult due to the tropical temperatures and the overloaded transport infrastructure with frequent traffic gridlocks.

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The Critical Intersection of Humanitarian Logistics and Food Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

million, which is over two times the figure in 2020. million, which is over two times the figure in 2020. In such adverse situations, humanitarian logistics and food supply chains play a crucial role in aiding. In the UAE, there have been multiple initiatives taken to strengthen food security.