Articles Tagged with ''supply chain management''

Food and beverage manufacturers need to take decisive action now or risk being left behind in a rapidly evolving market. Those that lead in digital transformation will emerge stronger, more agile and better equipped to navigate future disruptions.

Deepak Bhatia is its first chief technology officer and the newest member of its Executive Committee.

Ensuring you’re plugged in to the supply chain means ensuring efficiency and motivation to invest in your goals and plans for the future.

An ERP solution dedicated to food and beverage operations is a good place to start a digital journey.

Current supply chain woes have made nearly every aspect of processing an ongoing guessing game, from forecasting ingredient availability to ensuring finished foods arrive at their destinations on time. One way to help make sense of the situation is to invest in track-and-trace technology that can monitor every step of a product’s journey.

While we hope the COVID-19 pandemic is fading into the background, we still need to be concerned with labor shortages, transportation interruptions, political issues, weather extremes, and other peripheral circumstances that can still break critical links in the supply chain.

We hear a lot (really, constantly) about the supply chain and the many causes for it faltering the past year: shortage of labor to move goods—especially truck drivers and dock workers—inconsistent ingredient supplies, record inflation for materials and on and on. 

For food and beverage processors, supply chain management covers a lot of territory, including maintaining inputs and outputs.