Tiger Cool Express LLC, a provider of temperature-controlled intermodal transportation of produce and other food products, has acquired 35 additional domestic containers.

Backward-looking KPIs, especially those on safety stock, are a necessity in successful S&OP processes, says Erik Hjerpe of TreeHouse Foods, a private-brand food manufacturer. He explains why this is so and how TreeHouse employs a variety of safety stock strategies.

Carrier Transicold has named the first five of its container refrigeration service centers to achieve CareMAX recognition.

PakSense Inc., a vendor of environmental monitoring systems, has launched AutoSense, a means of delivering cold-chain temperature data to smartphones.

C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc. has begun operating out of a new facility in Corona, Calif., to support the services of Robinson Fresh.

Hedge funds are betting that the price of cocoa will rise on concern that the deadly Ebola disease will disrupt supplies from West Africa, which produces 70 percent of the global supply.