Although advancements in the dairy industry have helped defeat some of the threats to foodborne illness, food safety remains an important issue for dairy processors.
If officials at Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Inc. and Nestlé SA wanted a symbol of their frozen snacks' merger, they couldn't do better than the expanded Dreyer's plant in Bakersfield, Calif.
Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) range in combinations of scope, scale, technology and hardware usage from simple software programs tracking inventory, receiving, shipping and pallet putaway to complex automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS).
I suspect the majority of companies in the dairy and ice cream industry have never actually taken a step back and considered fundamental alternatives to their traditional distribution methods-alternatives that are more comprehensive and beyond mere tweaks and updates to the company's traditional approach.