efficiency food
RSS efficiency foodSAP, HP to offer pay-monthly deal
News The companies plan to market the programs to businesses with less than $1bn in annual revenue, with specialised versions available for oil and gas companies, high-tech device makers, computer services firms and food companies. [27 Oct 2004]
Devil’s Advocate: Profligacy and destruction and IT
Comment We finish up, for example, with a complex food distribution network, operated by the major supermarkets, that results is most of our purchases travelling hundreds of miles before they reach our tables. [14 Sep 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Technologists don’t know best
Comment Anyone who questions the rapid deployment of the very latest innovation from GM food to smart identity cards is branded a Luddite. While we have an obsession with efficiency and the maximum utilisation of resources, there are many instances of... [02 Jun 2003]
MPs slam NHS electronic care record delays
News The report said: "Hospitals have often been left out of negotiations between Connecting for Health and its suppliers, and found themselves, as one witness put it, at 'the bottom of the food chain'. Despite the problems the report said the local... [13 Sep 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Telecoms - get creative
Comment Throughout my life I have watched as food, wine, beer, clothing, furniture, most domestic appliances and electronics goods, and lots of office equipment have become commodities. Does it start to adjust to this reality by deploying optical fibre to... [12 Jun 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Mobile guesses
Comment Even the bar codes on our food and clothes look set to be replaced by single chip transponders to establish 100 per cent quality control, sales and aftercare service. The net result is that my mobile phone bill has dropped by 70 per cent and my... [17 Sep 2003]
Web 2.0 and the public sector
Comment The Food Standard Agency's chief scientist's blog is a good example of an attempt at more open and interactive communication. User-generated content, online collaboration and diverse forms of community interaction have implications for political... [11 Oct 2007]
'Greedy' appliances to power one million homes
News Efficiency improvements to the greediest home appliances - including power supplies for laptops, mobile phones and printers - can save enough energy to power 1.5 million homes, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs... [14 Jul 2008]
Farming subsidy IT system to cost £90m
News In a statement to parliament, Jim Knight, parliamentary under-secretary at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, said: "The development of a new computer system to deliver SPS is an integral part of a broader Change Programme. [29 Jul 2005]
Power down PCs to save millions, gov't told
News Separately, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has opted to upgrade its 10,000 PCs to Windows Vista, which includes a PC hibernating feature. The OGC is the Treasury office responsible for driving efficiency in public sector... [22 May 2008]
"Ratners" syndrome holding back government IT
News Speaking at the same event David Myers, CIO council member and IT director at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, said the aim is not to produce a technical IT roadmap in isolation from the workings of the rest of the public... [25 May 2005]
Hallmark Cards Boosts Merchandiser Efficiency 10 Percent With Mobile Databases
White Paper Hallmark Cards sells its products in nearly 44,000 retail outlets in the United States, including 30,000 mass merchandisers, such as discount, food, and drug stores. The company employs 10,000 part-time Retail Merchandisers (RMs) who stock new... [01 May 2007]
Retalix Solution Saves Costs, Increases Efficiency, Improves Shopping Experience
White Paper Retalix develops and markets software solutions for food industry retailers and distributors in 51 countries. The firm offers an array of software applications for mechanizing and synchronizing the retail activity, distribution, and management of... [30 May 2007]
The Star Group Improves Efficiency and Information Accessibility With Web-Based System
White Paper Founded in 1948, the Star Group is a key player in the Italian food industry. The company wanted to create a single, secure gateway to group applications, improving the company's ability to effectively manage each product's distribution cycle. [20 Jul 2007]
Infomercati Modernizes and Automates Business Processes to Increase Operational Efficiency
White Paper Infomercati is an obligatory association established in Italy under a 1996 law requiring creation and management of an information system for wholesale food and agriculture markets. Infomercati wanted to deploy a single tool for recording the... [30 Apr 2008]
