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The Freight Broker’s Secret Weapon with Nick Schrock

The Logistics of Logistics

He previously worked at Flock Freight, Ungerboeck Software, O’Brien Associates Food Brokerage, and Northwestern Mutual. Nick has a bachelor’s in business from McKendree University in Illinois. At 13 years old, he was a professionally sponsored roller blader. And by 16, he started a skateboard company.

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In Divisive Times, We’re Still United by the Food Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

Yet one economic sector — food and drink — helps bring people together. “But according to a recent study out of the University of Illinois, even if you have never traveled around the United States, the food you eat (or at least elements of it) certainly has.”[1] Challenges facing the food supply chain.

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Food Supply Chain Workers Play Heroic Role During Covid-19 Outbreak

Enterra Insights

.”[1] Toilet paper wasn’t the only essential involved in panic buying, food and bottled water were also emptied from store shelves. “You wouldn’t know it from the bare grocery store shelves across the country,” Jacob Bunge ( @jacobbunge ) and Jesse Newman ( @jessenewman13 ) write, “but America has plenty of food.

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Why It Matters

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the last five years, I have helped two companies, Sonoco Products and Owens Illinois (OI) with their selection of technologies to improve Sales and Operations (S&OP) planning. Both companies provide packaging materials to the food manufacturing industry. Owens Illinois (OI), a $6.3 Here I contrast their results.

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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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Pet Food Experts Selects HIMPACT by Herlitz Inventory Management

Herlitz Inventory Management

Pet Food Experts Selects HIMPACT by Herlitz Inventory Management to Manage Daily Forecasting and Purchasing Solutions for its 4,500 Retail Partners in 34 States. Pet Food Experts signed with Herlitz Inventory Management to deliver more efficient and more profitable solutions for its forecasting and purchasing process.

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PepsiCo’s Massive, Complex, and Difficult Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Logistics Viewpoints

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. Because of the food giant’s size, their sustainability strategy also is very broad.