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What is Supply Chain Resilience?

GlobalTranz

COVID-19 triggered an unprecedented surge in panic buying of food, beverages, hand sanitizer, toilet paper, and other essentials. The demand caught off-guard those retailers and suppliers who relied on just-in-time inventory practices. Panic Buying Challenged Retailers and Suppliers. You can’t plan for every crisis.

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

BlueYonder

Food, beverages (for example, beer, health drinks, and water), consumer goods, and apparel will not only be in high demand — but these products will have to be matched very accurately to the preferences of soccer fans converging on Qatar from every corner of the world. Why Not Get an Assist from Blue Yonder?

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Manufacturing ERP Plays a Key Role for Sustainability

QAD

Many manufacturers now publish separate sustainability reports or incorporate the information in their annual report including Nexteer, Tesla, Ball Corp., Consider the effects of excess inventory and unnecessary shipments. Whirlpool, Saint-Gobain, 3M, Comvita, Medtronic and others.

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Vendor-managed inventory and distribution planning in the food and beverage industry – here’s something to chew on

Kinaxis

by Jeswin Philip The Food Packaging Trends and Advances report from PMMI forecasts that the US Food and Beverage industry will experience a 2.9 % CAGR through 2022. As with any industry, food and beverage faces its own unique set of supply chain challenges, including: Expiring ingredients, manufactured product and packaged goods.

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Cross Docking 101: What, Why and How? [with case studies]

Unleashed

By delaying decisions about how to distribute the goods, the business can make informed decisions to meet customer demand using up-to-date sales data. Since e-commerce is dealing with real-time information, it’s especially suited to cross docking. On this model, goods can spend slightly more time in the distribution centre.

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How food and beverage manufacturers can reduce costs and improve profits

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Food and beverage manufacturing and distribution companies usually operate on smaller margins than most organizations in other industries. Unfortunately, a significant chunk of food and beverage companies’ raw materials are commodities, whose prices don’t just fluctuate from month to month but can change hour-by-hour.

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The current trucking market experience: it is both supply and demand

CH Robinson Transportfolio

A contributing factor is inventory build ahead of the summer food and beverage season that begins with Memorial Day. Finally, the retail industry inventory-to-sales ratio continues at very low levels. How the stimulus is an extraordinary event creating freight demand. Other GDP forecasts for the U.S.