The cold chain, or a temperature-controlled supply chain, provides the means for perishable products to make it to retail stores. Without the sophisticated network of interconnected logistics, the perishables section of the local grocery store would look vastly different. Many, if not most, cold chain failures are preventable and result from out-of-date supply chain technologies. Because of the importance of the...
The FDA recently announced that they will publicize the names of retailers associated with recalls “where consumption of the food has a reasonable probability of causing serious adverse health consequences or death to humans or animals.” Previously, they would only release the name of the recalled product rather than specific retailers distributing the product, largely due to confidential supply chain information.
The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations agency concerned with international public health, has recently published a report, Towards Access 2030. This report provides a strategic long-term framework for increasing global access to high-quality, safe, and affordable vaccines and medical products, in addition to addressing expectations for 2030 regulations through end-to-end supply chain optimization.
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), signed into law in 2011, put emphasis on proactive management of food safety. This helped to drive additional methods of ensuring that perishable foods were kept at proper temperature throughout the cold chain. Specifically, the Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food impacted a few areas: vehicles and transportation operations, staff training, and record keeping....
Telematics has transformed the supply chain in significant ways. From improving road safety through automatic driving assistance, to simplifying navigation realized from GPS technology, transportation companies have embraced telematics as a way to enhance vehicular technology and improve fleet management.
In the mid-nineties, Jeff Bezos founded Amazon to sell one of a few promising categories of products: compact discs, computer hardware, computer software, videos, or books. His decision to revolutionize the way we purchase books would prove to have a cascading effect on expectations with online shopping.
