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4 Food and Beverage Manufacturing Trends on Tap for 2020

USC Consulting Group

It’s the food and beverage industry’s job to appeal to consumer tastes by keeping tabs on what’s hot and what’s not. What are the major food and beverage manufacturing trends on tap for 2020? According to the Good Food Institute, the plant-based meat industry is presently valued at approximately $4.5

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This Week in Logistics News (April 30 – May 6)

Logistics Viewpoints

These sixteen states were joined by the District of Columbia, the City of New York, and a Bay Area organization. Environmental and labor groups filed separate suits. The lawsuits argue that the agency’s environmental analysis to justify spending up to $11.3 billion on the gas trucks, which only get 8.6

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Hurricane Florence Update: Impacts, Forecasts, and Operational Best Practices

Elementum

Agricultural companies Cargill and Smithfield Foods Inc. Response: State of Emergency declarations were already made in the states of Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. DowDupont sites in North Carolina’s Charlotte, Greenboro, and Fayetteville will have work suspensions.

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What is Supply Chain Compliance and Why is it Important?

AB&R

In addition, several agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) require unique device identifiers (UDI) usually in the form of barcodes to contain information such as manufactured date and lot number to provide traceability. District of Columbia. Job Title *. Company Name *. Business Address 1 *. Business Address 2.

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Hurricane Florence Update: Impacts, Forecasts, and Operational Best Practices

Elementum

Agricultural companies Cargill and Smithfield Foods Inc. Response: State of Emergency declarations were already made in the states of Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. DowDupont sites in North Carolina’s Charlotte, Greenboro, and Fayetteville will have work suspensions.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 11 – 17)

Logistics Viewpoints

A few weeks ago, I wrote about a Taco Bell franchisee that is building a new restaurant that the chain said will be the fastest way to get its food: a two-story, technology-heavy unit with four drive-thru lanes dubbed Taco Bell Defy. Taco Bell continues to be innovative in its efforts to get tacos into its customers hands.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 30 – August 5)

Logistics Viewpoints

The ongoing pandemic-induced supply chain disruptions, along with the Russia-Ukraine war, limited available supplies of cocoa, edible oil, and other food ingredients. The refurbished products have been inspected, tested, and cleaned, Walmart said.