The Food & Beverage Industry is always one of the fastest-moving in regards to the changes that come every year in terms of consumer tastes, preferences, packaging, manufacturing, storage and transportation and more. For every familiar item that seems to have remain unchanged for generations (see “ice cream” or “eggs”), there are dozens of others ways it evolves visibly and invisibly and constantly creating new opportunities – and challenges. “Regenerative vertical farms” in the aquaponics industry, Plant-based substitutes for meat, but , coconut and oat-based dairy products and more are all creating challenges up and down the supply chain from the logistics supplying the manufacturers, the packaging, storage and even the marketing. In 2020, we expect to see some of these challenges create bigger obstacles than others. Which ones should you be paying attention to?

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It may be the ideal amalgamation of technologies: RFID, in which electronically stored information located in tags is automatically identified and tracked via electromagnetic fields, and lean manufacturing principals of systematically reducing wastes with no sacrifice of productivity. The ease of tracking the entire manufacturing and supply process that RFID provides improvements in efficiency and contributes to this elimination of waste.