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Fresh-Food Retail-Wholesale Platform Links with Provider of Traceability Solutions

FoodLink, a buying platform that connects fresh food retailers and wholesalers to a network of more than 2,000 supplier companies, will acquire TRUETRAC, a provider of mobile traceability solutions to growers, harvesters, packers and shippers of fresh-packed produce. The combined company will be the food industry's first integrated network for produce traceability that links crop planning, harvesting, packing, order management, shipping, receiving and individual item tracking from the field to the supermarket checkout line.

Coping With the Procurement Talent Shortage

Why is there a critical shortage of people who are qualified to manage global procurement? And how can the problem be remedied? We get some answers from Mickey North Rizza, formerly research director with Gartner Supply Chain and now vice president of advisory services at BravoSolution.

ARC Creates Cloud-Based Supplier-Selection Service

ARC Advisory Group has released a new tool to help companies select and manage their suppliers.

Inttra Releases Shipping/Booking Apps; Enhances OceanSchedules

Inttra, developer of a multi-carrier network for managing ocean shipping, has released a Shipping Application Delivery Platform for integrating and deploying the vendor's applications from within existing logistics, transportation-management or enterprise resource planning systems.

LogicSource Updates OneMarket Procurement, Marketing Application

LogicSource, a procurement services and technology firm specializing in printed materials and related commodities, has made a number of enhancements to its OneMarket Technology Suite of software applications.

HD Supply Chalks Up a Decade's Worth of Experience in TMS

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A Bit Too Much Spice in McCormick's Supply Chain

For McCormick & Company, the ubiquitous producer of spices and flavorings, 2011 was one tough year. I'm not talking about financials; McCormick's net sales for the year were up 10.8 percent over 2010, to $3.7bn, while net income rose 5 percent, to $374.2m - not a bad performance in a sluggish economy. I'm referring to the anti-trifecta of disasters and disruptions that severely challenged the company's ability to service its customers.

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A Bit Too Much Spice in McCormick's Supply Chain

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Accellos Releases App for Qualifying, Monitoring Carriers

Accellos, a vendor of supply-chain execution software, has released a carrier qualification and monitoring module for its Prophesy Dispatch transportation-management system (TMS).

Panjiva Debuts B2B Search Engine for Global Traders

Panjiva, provider of a business-to-business platform for managing global trade, has made available a new search engine.

IBM Unveils New Technologies and Services at Smarter Commerce Summit

IBM introduced several new products at its recent Smarter Commerce Summit in Orlando, Fla.

Should Apple, Others Consider Getting Out of China?

You'd expect to see headlines like this - 'Launch of New Apple iPhone Causes Riots - when consumers beat down doors and trample each other, yet these riots were in China, among workers at Foxconn, a major supplier to Apple and other U.S. companies.

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