May 11, 2018
Rod Snyder, president of Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture, has over ten years of experience in eco-labeling. FTM was founded in order to address the question of…
May 29, 2017
This week the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative is holding an executive panel focused on the challenges of dealing with counterfeiting in the supply chain. We will be hosting a number of…
Jan 8, 2017
Great news this week for NC State as SCM World announced its top 25 supply chain management programs globally. The NC State Supply Chain program was listed as one of the…
Oct 3, 2016
I’m writing to share an exciting new report released today entitled “An Economic Impact Analysis of the U.S. Biobased Products Industry: 2016 Update.” This new report shows how the U.S.…
Jun 10, 2016
I had an interesting discussion with an expert in the food industry, and we discussed some of the emerging trends going on in food packaging and local sourcing for food.…
Today’s guest post is from Graham Givens. Graham is a Research Fellow at the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative, where he works closely on local food systems through the Center for…
Apr 15, 2016
When Coca Cola set about thinking about how to drive sustainability into their supply chain, they recognized from the outset that the entire end to end life cycle of a…
Oct 29, 2015
I spent some time this week with a group of procurement executives from Restaurant Supply Chain Solutions, a company that conducts all of the procurement and supply chain activity for…
Aug 14, 2015
In the recent issue of Industrial Biotechnology, Jay Golden and I published a set of insights related to the challenges that exist as part of the industrial biobased economy. As…
Mar 13, 2015
I have been working with Jay Golden at Duke University on the biobased forecasting project for the USDA, seeking to understand the current scope of the biobased product market (…