Today’s supply chain leaders are faced with the complicated dance of tapping into emerging technologies to shore up stability — while figuring out how to marry them with humans to shoot ahead of the competition.
Mars, Inc., is investing $70 million in manufacturing, opening a research and development innovation studio with a test kitchen, chocolate production facility, and packaging lab.
The company is eliminating plastic- or aluminum-based pods to instead package pressed coffee beans within a protective plant-based wrapping that can be directly inserted into new Keurig Alta brewers.
The initiative is being launched first across the company’s snacking business, leveraging multi-physics, computer modeling tech to reduce the need for significant physical testing during the packaging process.
Some parents in Boston will soon have the option to offset the environmental impact of their baby’s used diapers, as part of a new Huggies pilot aimed at diverting landfill waste.
Breakfast-foods consumer goods company Kodiak has a new chief operating officer, and has created a new position: vice president of product development. Learn who got the roles.
Mars Inc., is looking to tap into a network of startup companies that are poised to transform the food system, helping to progress sustainability within the company's snacking division.
