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Food Industry Executive’s Top 5 Articles for June
Looking to catch up on the latest in the food and beverage industry? Our top 5 articles for June include a Q&A on integrated warehouse management systems, a guest article on reducing food waste in supply chains, and a look at how quality assurance can help businesses fight inflation.
In our Q&A with Chris Conroy of ECI Software Solutions, we take a look at the use of integrated warehouse management systems to optimize production, reduce waste, and meet customer demand, among other benefits.
Energy costs make up more than 18% – 20% of food and beverage processing expenditures. Guest author Tom Ranallo discusses how incorrectly calculated utility bills can contribute to higher energy costs, and how expert auditing refund companies can analyze your utility bills to look for oversights and other errors.
Guest author Hugo Fuentes Diaz tackles the topic of food waste in this informational piece. He talks about how a framework called Triple Bottom Line (TBL) can encourage organizations to think about the social, environmental, and economic impacts of their business and focus on the 3P’s: people, profits, and planet.
With the impacts of inflation and climate change, a possible food crisis could have far-reaching effects. In this guest article, Larry Clarke explores food as a global product and urges readers to work to develop measures such as a tighter and more flexible food chain, a focus on loss reduction, and making decontamination a central part of the supply chain process.
Guest author Casey Thomson discusses the various challenges companies are facing today regarding food production costs, and how the implementation of a routine at-line or in-process quality analysis can help them maintain end-to-end control of product quality while cutting costs.