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Food Exec Brief: AI Velocity, GLP-1 Disruption, and Manufacturing’s Autonomous Future
Welcome to this week's Food Exec Brief, your strategic intelligence roundup covering the accelerating deployment of AI across R&D and operations, the seismic impact of GLP-1 medications on consumer behavior, and the convergence of...
The Value of Data-Driven Decisions: Q&A With Worximity on How Real-Time Visibility Transforms Performance
Hitting production targets used to be mostly about keeping lines running and hitting throughput goals. Today, food and beverage leaders are under pressure to do all that and manage tight margins, expensive raw materials,...
Tariff Uncertainty Provides Fertile Ground for Growth by Accelerating Supply Chain Resilience
By Yannick Verry, Brand Director, Fi Europe
Key takeaways:
Tariff volatility is reshaping sourcing: Companies are diversifying suppliers (e.g., shifting from Malagasy to Ugandan vanilla) and building regional trading networks to reduce exposure to high...
From Compliance to Competitive Advantage: Q&A With SafetyChain on the Real ROI of Digital...
In food manufacturing, compliance used to mean “passing the audit” and getting back to production. That’s no longer enough. Between retailer demands, new traceability rules, ESG pressure, and a social media environment where a...
When Good Integrations Go Bad: Lessons from Failed Manufacturing System Rollouts
Key takeaways
Most failed manufacturing system rollouts in food plants are not software failures but leadership, testing, and change‑management failures.
Patterns repeat: inadequate end‑to‑end testing, poor change management, underestimated integration complexity, and thin training...
Precision, Traceability, and Trust: Q&A With Hitachi on How Smarter Marking and Coding Strengthen...
Hygiene and sanitation get a lot of airtime in food manufacturing, but there’s another layer of protection that every product relies on: the tiny codes and marks that carry the story of where it...
Clean as Competitive Advantage: Q&A With Nilfisk on How Hygiene Innovation Is Driving Efficiency,...
Hygiene used to sit in the “necessary evil” column of the P&L — something you did at the end of a shift, after the real work of production was done. That mindset is changing...