The Brief – June 27 2017

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Measuring Produce Freshness, Paris Agreement, Supply Chain Talent Gap, and Preemptive Freshness Management

Best practices, technology, and new takes on critical business topics from ChainLink Research

Tuesday, June 27, 2017 – Published once each month.

Freshness ‘blindness’ causes a lot of waste in produce supply chains. Here we explain the role of the Condition-based Expiration Date—a critical element to solving this problem. We look at what it takes to create a reliable and accurate algorithm that models deterioration of different varieties of produce exposed to different temperature histories. [ Read: Measuring Produce Freshness: Part One — Ensuring Delivered Freshness ]


The Paris Agreement Lives

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

How will the formal withdrawal from the Paris Agreement affect our growth industries? [ Read: The Paris Agreement Lives ]


The Talent Gap

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

What It Is, Why We Have It, and Some Simple Ideas to Fill the Gap. [ Read: The Talent Gap ]


Preemptive Freshness Management: Part One — Empowering Workers to Improve Delivered Freshness

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

In case you missed it, this article from March 2017 describes Preemptive Freshness Management, a proactive approach to reducing waste and spoilage in the produce supply chain, from grower to retailer. A process model that incorporates product characteristics, customer requirements, and resource constraints provides field, packhouse, and DC workers with early warnings, clear guidance on goals and tradeoffs, and prescriptive corrective actions to maximize freshness and minimize loss. [ Read: Preemptive Freshness Management: Part One — Empowering Workers to Improve Delivered Freshness ]

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