Eat lunch or be lunch

Scaling up, more and more efficiency, demanding transparency, increasing demand for sustainability, necessary innovation and unavoidable digitisation. Go ahead and get it done! The food sector will have to face it all at the same time. 10 professionals and specialists talk about major changes in the food and IT sector.

What will the sector face in the near future and what are the consequences? How are leading food companies already anticipating this? Ten professionals and experts talk in the trend magazine about major changes in the Food and IT sector. Visions from manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers, as well as from scientists, market experts and automation experts.

Following on from the large-scale IT Food Forecast study of 2018 on food & technology, Schouw Informatisering took the initiative this year to explore the rapidly approaching future. There seems to be only one way forward: either go along with the changes or be too late. It is a matter of serious innovation, far-reaching automation and digitisation. To eat or be eaten, it seems.

That is why we entered into discussions with five modern food companies to find out how they can keep their heads above water or even flourish in this changing playing field. About how you can take technology a step further and how it remains fun for people to work at your company, without having to do monotonous work. Jan den Hartog, Financial Director of Merba, for example, explains that there are no longer any human bakers in the company. From 2007 to 2010, they worked hard on a new dough factory. "But it is a natural product and the system must steer the process in such a way that it helps people. You can read about how they solved that in the trend magazine. Schouw Informatisering also spoke to various experts about trends and developments in the sector, including those of Erasmus University, Microsoft and Rabobank. The magazine can be downloaded via the link below:

www.foodware365.com/nl/trendmagazine/