Supply Chain Brain

JULY 28, 2025

Board execs are strained by the conversation around, ‘How do we purchase more, get a bigger footprint?’ Build Up, Not Out Expanding your footprint isn’t just expensive — it’s disruptive. Real estate is at an absolute premium today,” Senn says.

Vendor Strategies

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 23, 2025

According to our 2024 report, Generative AI in the B2B Marketplace , 81% of B2B businesses are already investing in AI, with 79% anticipating increasing their AI budgets within the next year. Sometimes The B2B buyer report revealed that 65% of buyers found AI-powered chatbots to be moderately or extremely helpful when it came to purchases.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 24, 2025

adults expect to pay more for food this summer compared to last summer due to inflation, and nearly half (47%) expect to pay the same, suggesting 80% report feeling no relief from high grocery prices. RELATED CONTENT RELATED VIDEOS Technology Food & Beverage Retail Related Articles U.S.

Purchasing Skills

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

Second is the broader strategic importance: As the macroeconomic environment tightens, and tariffs start to bite harder, it will be crucial to both lower operating costs and also protect against increased volatility. Inventory is capital sitting on the floor. A WMS is only as good as the data you feed it.

Negotiating Skills

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 24, 2025

With 2025 tariffs increasing component costs, Apple has accelerated efforts to diversify its supply chain. While this mitigates tariff costs, it requires rigorous supplier vetting and coordination, increasing operational complexity. Walmart reported a 5% rise in logistics costs due to longer shipping routes. A 2025 U.S.

Price Reduction

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 12, 2025

These tools can analyze large amounts of data to predict demand trends, automate purchasing decisions and optimize stock levels in real time. The result is a leaner, more efficient operation that can weather the impact of higher costs. Optimize customer relationships. Ajoy Krishnamoorthy is chief executive officer of Cin7.

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 6, 2025

Driven by purchases of machinery from the U.S. Logistics firms in Córdoba, Rosario, and Buenos Aires report a spike in inquiries from companies exploring operations, warehousing, or regional distribution outposts. Its not just a local rebound.

Argentina

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 1, 2025

with 34% of consumers saying that theyve delayed making purchases until theres more certainty. with 34% of consumers saying that theyve delayed making purchases until theres more certainty. with 34% of consumers saying that theyve delayed making purchases until theres more certainty. According to a survey of 1,000 U.S.

Survey

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 18, 2025

billion purchase of the smaller American company by a Japanese one will create one of the worlds biggest steelmakers, and turns Nippon into a major player in the U.S., reports BBC News. Featured Product Popular Stories Report From DPW: What’s Next for AI in Supply Chain? government. government. government.

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 30, 2025

starting August 1, and threatened an additional penalty over the country’s energy purchases from Russia. starting August 1, and threatened an additional penalty over the country’s energy purchases from Russia. starting August 1, and threatened an additional penalty over the country’s energy purchases from Russia.

Russia

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. 294 manufacturing facilities produced more than 90 million metric tons of food and beverage in 2021.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Due to travel restrictions, I cannot attend many industry events, so I observe from home, watching webinars and remote broadcasts. Almost two decades of reporting. For example, Monster Beverages beats Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, while Celanese outperforms Dow Chemical. Surgery is over. I am safely recuperating at home.

Gartner

Unleashed

MARCH 22, 2022

No- and low-alcohol beverages – dubbed NoLo alcohol – have seen a dramatic rise in the last few years, driven by consumers seeking healthier beverage options. Here we get inside the NoLo industry boom – from what’s behind it, to how brewers and beverage manufacturers are taking advantage of it, to what the future looks like.

Inventory Management Software

QAD

APRIL 6, 2021

The packaging industry has to stay on the forefront of change because what they produce affects so many other markets, like food and beverage, consumer goods and healthcare packaging. During the last year, many stayed home, shopped online, had their purchases delivered and then unwrapped them from their cardboard and film packaging.

Manufacturing Procurement

Shipchain

OCTOBER 25, 2019

We partnered with GTX Corp, ParceLive, and a few others that will be announced soon, began working on case studies, aired our first webinar with major industry executives, graduated from the Plug and Play Spring 2019 Food and Beverage Accelerator Program, joined forces with the World Economic Forum to build the Blockchain Toolkit, and a lot more.

Las Vegas

EcoVadis

AUGUST 11, 2017

percent in the first quarter of 2017, and for the year ending in February 2017, sales of packaged foods and beverages fell 0.4 Kearney says the 25 largest food and beverage companies combine to own 63 percent of the nearly $500 billion in U.S. And the impact is going directly to the bottom line.

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 3, 2025

The gaming division has been under pressure to boost profit margins since Microsoft purchased Activision Blizzard for $69 billion in a deal that closed in October 2023. This is the fourth mass layoff at Xbox in the last 18 months.

Resource Reduction

Shipchain

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Lastly, we aired our first educational webinars last year, and that is something we will continue to do to bring awareness of our product and value to different industries and players in the space. . These primitives will enable us to begin documenting and tracking supply chain interactions before a purchase has even occurred.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Unleashed

MAY 25, 2020

The beverage industry story has been particularly dramatic, with rapid expansion and growth in the last two years, followed by a turbulent ride through the recent pandemic. In writing this beverage industry sector report we analysed aggregate data from 235 beverage companies that use Unleashed’s cloud-based inventory management software.

Beverage

GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Irregular loads such as commonly shipped by distribution centers require about 8 to 12 pounds and heavy, inherently unstable product like shrink wrapped bundles of bottled beverages typically requires about 17 to 20 pounds, as measured with Lantech’s CFT-5 containment force tool. Establishing and monitoring . It’s easy to “over” wrap a load.

Freight

Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Platforms to look into include: A CRM system A marketing analytics platform A way to connect your sales and accounting systems to marketing You may not be able to make some of these investments straight away, which again is okay. Common digital advertising channels Search Ads: Here you essentially purchase search rankings.

Modeling Software

Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Stats NZ has reported the volume of high-strength beer (more than 5% ABV) available for consumption has increased by 21% in five years. The Society of Independent Brewers’s 2020 craft beer report showed that in 2019, their members reported acquiring 47 pub sites; 30% of them now have a taproom, and 35% of them have a shop.

Price Reduction

QAD

APRIL 22, 2025

Introduction: Navigating a Rapidly Changing Industry Food and beverage manufacturers face numerous challenges, including shifting consumer tastes, supply chain disruptions, and strict regulations. This article will explore key topics influencing AI-driven APS and how it benefits food and beverage manufacturers.

Beverage