In order to preemptively prescribe optimal actions to workers across the produce cold chain, a system must reasonably accurately model the processes across the chain. The model becomes the basis for making predictive analytics, ultimately guiding the actions taken at each process step in the end-to-end cold chain.
Food & Agriculture
End-to-end Food & Beverage supply chain, including agriculture, processing, distribution, and retail
Preemptive Freshness Management: Part One – Empowering Workers to Improve Delivered Freshness
Preemptive Freshness Management takes 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–informed by continuous situational awareness–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.
Supply Chain Solutions – Foundation for the Omnichannel Revolution
Highlights of what we learned at NRF’s annual conference from providers of supply chain planning and optimization, IoT and RFID, omnichannel and order management, global logistics, PLM, and Geographic Information Systems.
On Your Mark… Get Set… Amazon Go! The Race for Checkout-less and Intelligent Integrated Stores
The announcement of Amazon Go could be seen as the starting gun for a race to create checkout-less stores. However, it is also an accelerator for the broader movement towards Intelligent, Integrated stores, that has been incubating for years. Here we look at the landscape and relevant solutions from this year’s NRF show.
Achieving Consistent Produce Quality: Applying Quality Management Methodologies to the Cold Chain
For decades, manufacturers have used statistical process control and related process disciplines to continually reduce process variation, minimize waste, and reliably create products consistently conforming to precise specifications. In contrast, the produce industry does not have a tradition of strong process controls. There is a major opportunity to dramatically improve produce quality and shelf life by adopting modern process disciplines.
Pallet-level Monitoring for the Fresh Food Supply Chain
Freshness of produce is a key competitive battleground for grocers. The common practice is to monitor the temperature of the field, cooler, trailer, and warehouse. By instead monitoring the temperature within each pallet–from the moment it is picked in the field until the end delivery at the retailer–smarter decisions can be made, based on that information, and losses can be cut in half for both the grower and the grocer.
Why Quality Consistency Matters
About 30% of harvested produce is wasted. The profitability of each player in the food chain is impacted by this inconsistent quality and control. There are tremendous opportunities to improve. Here we look at the issues of the fresh food supply chain and offer some diagnosis and remedies.
NetSuite’s Manufacturing Capabilities Boosted by IQity Acquisition
The recent acquisition of IQity is a major addition that adds a strong pillar to NetSuite’s manufacturing solution offerings.
RFID and IoT at NRF 2016
This year’s NRF Big Show illustrated how far we’ve come with RFID in Retail and some exciting developments in IoT.
Good Enough to Eat
How SMB Food Companies Embrace Technology and Thrive.
Distributed Intelligence in the IoT
The Internet of Things has intelligence distributed throughout many integrated layers. Algorithms and analytics are needed to make sense of the raw data. Often this intelligence needs to reside on the edge of the network close to the source of the data–near the ‘things’ comprising the IoT.