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Temperature-Sensitive Goods, Pharmaceutical Logistics, Logistics, Supply Chain, Specialized Logistics

Dos and Don’ts for Storing Temperature Sensitive Medicines

The UK Medicine and Health Products Regulatory Agency identified crucial mistakes in how wholesalers source and handle freezers and fridges used to store medicines.

Careers, Food Logistics, Education & Careers, Supply Chain

Chris Ward: Get the Food to Church's On Time

Chris Ward, vice president of supply chain with Church’s Chicken, focuses on delivering the right products at the right cost.

Green Logistics, Food Logistics, Retail Logistics, Manufacturing Logistics

Are You Ready to Join the Circular Supply Chain?

Companies and consumers are becoming more environmentally aware and shifting from a traditional linear supply chain to a circular one. By reducing the demand for manufactured products, we can reduce the toxicity and volume of waste that end up in landfills.

Food Logistics, Demand Planning, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management

GOOD QUESTION | Popeyes chicken sandwich shortage: Supply chain fail or marketing savvy?

Readers weigh in on the Popeyes chicken sandwich shortage: Was it a supply chain miss or a marketing ploy?

MaryAnn Holder

Pharmaceutical Logistics, Food Logistics, Logistics, Supply Chain

Fighting Counterfeit Products

As pharmaceutical and food supply chains become more global, these two industries are at particular risk for fraud, substitution, and counterfeiting. Consumers are demanding more transparency and safety adherence as these issues arise.

Brad Hollister

Food Logistics, Logistics, Supply Chain, Transportation

The Unusual Suspect: Supply Chain's Role in Recent FDA Recalls - SwanLeap

How the TMS should evolve to increase end-to-end transparency and centralize your supply chain’s data.

Temperature-Sensitive Goods, Logistics, Supply Chain, Specialized Logistics

Cold Chain Strategies That Beat the Summer Heat

Ensuring summer foods make it to consumers fresh and intact ain't no picnic.

Food Logistics, Legislation, Public Policy, and Regulations, Logistics, Supply Chain

Food Fight

The Global Food Safety Initiative is working to improve food safety across the globe through GFSI-recognized certification programs and its platform for collaboration, and by reducing redundant audits and developing food safety capacity around the world.

Food Logistics, Supply Chain, Technology , Transportation

Food Transportation: Missing Ingredients to FSMA Compliance

While the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) of 2011 set the guidelines and rulemaking for the Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food (STHAF) in process, there are still gaps in compliance. Here's how to address them.

Temperature-Sensitive Goods, Import, Food Logistics, Supply Chain

Supply Chain Fruits of Labor

From bananas to grapes and cherries, get the flavor of the fruit supply chain with these fun facts.

Food Logistics, Logistics, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management

Yone Dewberry: Engineering the Supply Chain

Profile of Yone Dewberry, chief supply chain officer, Land O’Lakes

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