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From saving energy and reducing plastic waste to moving towards recyclable material, big changes are happening around sustainability within the food tech industry. Retail World spoke with a number of companies at Food Tech Queensland to get their take on the topic. We also spoke with several companies to find …

FMCG manufacturers can now benefit from the ‘always-on’ access to market data, analysis and insights with IRI’s new end-to-end analytics platform. Launched at the 2019 IRI Growth Summit in London, July 8-10, the IRI Always-on Marketing Mix Effectiveness platform enables manufacturers to measure, optimise and plan their brand’s performance, including …

Far from being worried, Australian ‘knowledge workers’ are ready to adapt to and embrace automation, according to a new report. The report, ‘Automate or Stagnate: The Impact of Intelligent Automation on the Future of Work’, comes from software company Blue Prism. It draws on research derived from nearly 5,000 respondents …

Global recruitment firm Hays has urged Australians to keep “upskilling” to stay employable during the “fourth industrial revolution”. This is the name given to the current era of runaway automation and artificial intelligence in the workplace. Hays says updating digital skills will be crucial if workers are going to weather …

“Don’t just sit back and wait for automation to knock on your door,” warns Hays, as robots crank up the pressure on Aussie workers. In fact, the global recruiting experts say half of Australian workers have already seen their responsibilities change because of automation. Some have even named the growth …

Many small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) could save money by switching to automated accounts payable processes, says SAP Concur. SMBs are losing money, it says, because of “preventable mismanaged manual invoice practices”. These include poor accounts payable (AP) processes and accidental duplicate invoicing. These processes create unnecessary expenses around fixing …

In the expansion of and automation of its Auckland distribution centre, Coca-Cola Amatil has selected Swisslog’s fully automated robot-based picking system, ACPaQ. Promoted as combining robotic solutions for palletising and depalletising with Swisslog’s CycloneCarrier shuttle technology, the ACPaQ is claimed to create a “fully automated process that facilitates high throughput …