The merger of Airclic and AirVersent, two leaders in vertical industry/process-specific mobile supply chain applications, is a sign of the maturing of mobile platforms and the beginning of a strong growth period for mobile supply chain systems.
Food & Agriculture
End-to-end Food & Beverage supply chain, including agriculture, processing, distribution, and retail
GS1 Enters Product Recall
GS1, HP and Microsoft enter product recall space – but GS1 enters as a nonprofit. What is the impact to industry?
Foodborne Illness Costs $152B/year. Who Will Pay for Prevention?
A recent study estimates the cost from sicknesses due to contaminated food in the U.S. to be $152B/year. Meanwhile, food safety legislation is making its way through congress, containing new guidelines and standards for hygiene, inspection, and sanitation. Even if that passes, it is not likely to contain a strong prescriptive mandate for any specific traceability technology. But there are other drivers to adoption of traceability besides regulatory mandates, such as brand assurance, risk management, and supply chain efficiency.
Terra on a Tear
The holy grail of consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies (or any manufacturer, for that matter) is to become more responsive to customer demand while reducing inventory. Learn how new solutions such as Demand Sensing, or what we call near-term planning, now make that possible.
Food Traceability and Interoperability
I recently attended the Food Traceability and Interoperability Summit in Denver, the first real attempt by a non government group to gather to discuss the need and value of instituting a more robust (end-to-end) and therefore interoperable food system.
Download our colorful and informative Food Safety Poster from ChainLink.
Food Traceability Research Poster
ChainLink has created a beautiful 48″ X 36″ poster summarizing the results of our recent research of the food supply chain looking at how food traceability supports food safety, track and trace, branding, and supply chain efficiency.
ChainLink Research’s CEO, Ann Grackin, spoke recently in Denver at the first conference of the Food Traceability Institute.
Our appreciation to all the individuals — speakers, sponsors and delegates who contributed to make the inaugural Traceability Interoperability Summit a critical success for the food supply chain community.
Presentations from the Featured Speakers are available for download. See the Conference Program Page on this website for links to PDF files of Powerpoint presentations.
Audio files and transcripts from the Conference will be available shortly.
Elements of Food Traceability: 2010 Solutions Outlook
With increasing globalization and additional tiers in the food supply chain, more and more hands are providing and/or touching the ingredients in our “farm-to-fork” food supply chain. As this happens, more rapid and reliable end-to-end food traceability will be increasingly important to achieve an acceptable level of food safety, confidence in the food supply, and the ability to react quickly and precisely to contamination events and recalls.
RFID Searches for a Home on the Range
The text discusses the potential uses of RFID technology in the livestock industry to track and identify animals, particularly in response to disease containment and food safety concerns. The article highlights the challenges of implementing the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) and the debate between voluntary market incentives and potential government regulations for RFID adoption in the cattle industry.