Nick Pacitti, co-founder of Sterling Solutions LLC, recently authored the Cool Insights column for the July/August edition of Food Logistics, titled “Fresh Needs Fast—Rail is Up to the Challenge.”  In the column, Pacitti suggests express rail as an efficient and cost-effective, yet often overlooked, means of produce transportation. 

For the past three years, faculty, staff, and partners of the Georgia Tech Supply Chain & Logistics Institute’s IFC have contributed their thoughts on various aspects of the food chain to Food Logistics Magazine under a column called Cool Insights.

Previous installments of the Cool Insights column:

Food Logistics, June 2012: Donald Ratliff, executive director of the Supply Chain & Logistics Institute (SCL), and Amar Ramudhin, director of SCL, authored the Cool Insights column titled “An Integrated Framework for Managing Standards and Operations of the Food Industry.”

Food Logistics, April/May 2012: Susan Wilkinson, a Subject Matter Expert with IBM Global Business Services, authored the Cool Insights column titled “The Value of Supply Chain Visibility: Traceability is Just the Start.”