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IBM will handle procurement and worldwide business processes for worldwide leading dairy company FrieslandCampina

STARBUCKS—Peter Gibbons Title: Executive vice president, Global Supply Chain Operations

Most companies operate under the corporate belief that inventory sitting in a warehouse and not on a retailer’s shelf is bad for business. This is pretty much Rule No. 1 in business school. But there are some companies out there that make warehousing industry seem evil.

It should come as no surprise that the companies that appear in the Top 25 Supply Chains are also the ones that make up a good chunk of the Fortune 500. While fairly obvious, this correlation shows that the most profitable companies in the world wouldn’t have made it to where they are today without a strong network of supply chains to support their ventures.

The third-party logistics company will operate PepsiCo’s new 450,000 square foot distribution center in Tacoma, WA. In a bid to consolidate its supply chain, the beverages company recognized that it needed to expand its network by opening a distribution center in the Pacific Northwest.

Companies trading oil, tobacco or alcohol products have only six months until the EMCS scheme becomes mandatory in the UK. EMCS is a computerized structure for recording in real-time the movement of excise goods between EU member states, which have not yet been released for consumption and for which excise duties have yet to be paid.

Vectura AS, a supplier of logistics services for producers, agents and importers of wine and spirits in Norway, has signed a three-year agreement to outsource warehousing and distribution activities at its Trondheim site to Kuehne + Nagel.