For all the talk about the importance of supply chain issues during and after the pandemic, there hasn’t been much headway made in addressing the systemic challenges that will result in long-lasting change, a top trade association executive said.
Tom Madrecki, vice president of supply chain for the Consumer Brands Association, which represents major consumer goods companies, said that while investments are being made in semiconductors and other targeted industries, the United States is not...
Consumer spending rose again in August, according to the U.S. Commerce Department, and that means more money flowing into CPG companies. On this episode of The Stockout, Mike Baudendistel talks about how some companies are turning that income into tech investment.
He welcomes Tom Madrecki, vice president of supply chain at the Consumer Brands Association, to discuss how CPG companies are using technology to improve their supply chain efficiency. They also talk about trends in the industry and...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cpg-companies-investing-in-new-tech-the-stockout
Trucking and maritime regulators should take immediate action to help ease cost burdens on packaged goods shippers concerned about potential shortages amid signs of inflation, according to a manufacturing lobby group.
In a letter sent on Thursday to the National Economic Council, an office within the White House, the Consumer Brands Association (CBA), which represents shippers of consumer packaged goods (CPG), warned that the CPG industry “is experiencing the perfect storm: Costs associated with...
Retailers and manufacturers are facing a new world in 2021, thanks to COVID, but if the resiliency of the supply chain proved anything in 2020, it is that they can adapt.
Tom Madrecki, vice president of supply chain and logistics at the Consumer Brands Association, joined Andrew Cox, FreightWaves’ senior retail analyst, on Wednesday morning to kick off Day 3 of the FreightWaves Global Supply Chain Week virtual conference.
Global Supply Chain Week, an eight-day virtual event, is being streamed for...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/gscw-keynote:-its-a-new-world-for-cpg-retailers
The consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry wants the federal government to get involved in initiatives that measure freight demand — currently deployed solely by the private sector — to get a more accurate picture of available trucking capacity.
The proposal was included in a study released Tuesday sponsored by the Consumer Brands Association (CBA), the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals and Iowa State University. The purpose: Identify, through industry comments and suggestions,...
https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/consumer-goods-group-lobbies-for-federal-air-traffic-control-for-trucks
John Tyson, chief sustainability officer of Tyson Foods (NYSE: TSN), is scheduled to kick off Day Three of Global Supply Chain Week, Feb. 24. Tyson will discuss sustainability in global supply chain management with Matt Waller, dean of Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas.
FreightWaves’ eight-day, virtual supply chain event will stream live from Feb. 22 through March 3. Feb. 24 focuses on food and consumer packaged goods (CPG) throughout supply chains.
This is not an...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/global-supply-chain-week-day-3-preview-food-and-cpg