{"148701":{"#nid":"148701","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Cool Insights: Fresh Needs Fast\u2014Rail is Up to the Challenge","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENick Pacitti, co-founder of Sterling Solutions LLC, recently authored the Cool Insights column for the July\/August edition of \u003Cem\u003EFood Logistics\u003C\/em\u003E, titled \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.foodlogistics.com\/magazine\/fl\/issue\/2012\/aug\u0022\u003EFresh Needs Fast\u2014Rail is Up to the Challenge\u003C\/a\u003E.\u201d\u0026nbsp; In the column, Pacitti suggests express rail as an efficient and cost-effective, yet often overlooked, means of produce transportation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the past three years, faculty, staff, and partners of the Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute\u2019s IFC have contributed their thoughts on various aspects of the food chain to \u003Cem\u003EFood Logistics Magazine\u003C\/em\u003E under a column called Cool Insights.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrevious installments of the Cool Insights column:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFood Logistics, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.foodlogistics.com\/article\/10727601\/an-integrated-framework-for-managing-standards-and-operations-of-the-food-industry\u0022\u003EJune 2012\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E: Donald Ratliff, executive director of the Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL), and Amar Ramudhin, director of SCL, authored the Cool Insights column titled \u201cAn Integrated Framework for Managing Standards and Operations of the Food Industry.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFood Logistics,\u003C\/em\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.foodlogistics.com\/article\/10710579\/the-value-of-supply-chain-visibility-traceability-is-just-the-start\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EApril\/May 2012\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E: Susan Wilkinson, a Subject Matter Expert with IBM Global Business Services, authored the Cool Insights column titled \u201cThe Value of Supply Chain Visibility: Traceability is Just the Start.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENick Pacitti recently authored the Cool Insights column for the July\/August edition of \u003Cem\u003EFood Logistics\u003C\/em\u003E, titled \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.foodlogistics.com\/magazine\/fl\/issue\/2012\/aug\u0022\u003EFresh Needs Fast\u2014Rail is Up to the Challenge\u003C\/a\u003E.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2012-08-22 14:40:17","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:43","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-08-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-08-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71481":{"id":"71481","type":"image","title":"Nick Pacitti","body":null,"created":"1449177386","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:26","changed":"1475894637","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:57","alt":"Nick Pacitti","file":{"fid":"193523","name":"nick_pacitti.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/nick_pacitti_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/nick_pacitti_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":97952,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/nick_pacitti_0.jpg?itok=FUJR0LTZ"}}},"media_ids":["71481"],"groups":[{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"10852","name":"Cool Insights"},{"id":"9684","name":"Food Logistics"},{"id":"14759","name":"Nick Pacitti"},{"id":"167077","name":"scl"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}