Growth in sales was making it tougher for the popular maker of premium ice cream to keep tabs on its production line. New software to ensure manufacturing quality was needed.
Cargill has released an assessment tool to help food and beverage customers achieve their growth, cost reduction and risk mitigation goals by identifying, prioritizing and quantifying risks and opportunities in its supply chains.
Supply chain, logistics and warehouse operations are at the heart of most companies' physical processes, either inbound into production or outbound to customers. This is never truer than for the food and beverage manufacturing industry in the UK.
Fine wines are vulnerable to counterfeiting or fraud, in large part due to their high value. A single bottle of French Bordeaux, from Chateau Le Pin, averages $3,000 and can be priced at up to $10,000 or more, making the trafficking of forgeries lucrative for counterfeiters. Photocopied labels, for example, can be attached to bottles of counterfeit wine, which can then end up being sold to consumers"”often at auctions, or at any weak link along the supply chain.
Less than three days after its iconic snack cakes officially returned to shelves, Hostess Brands LLC is experiencing record demand for products, with sales already seven times greater than historic levels and orders three to six times greater than production capacity - which has already been running at maximum levels.
CarrierDirect has partnered with One Stop Critical to create a new container for moving temperature-sensitive freight on less-than-truckload (LTL) dry van carriers.
Half of the UK's leading soft drink producers and suppliers,including Coca-Cola and Britvic, have signed onto the Soft Drinks Sustainability Roadmap, a supply chain study that aims to reduce the environment footprint of the industry's products.
When the Atkins Diet fad caused pasta consumption to drop dramatically almost overnight, AIPC embarked on a cultural transformation that improved performance and built resilience into the supply chain.