Food Logistics, a publication exclusively dedicated to covering the movement of product through the global cold food supply chain, has named Joseph Battoe, CEO of Varcode, a winner of the 2022 Rock Stars of the Supply Chain.
The award recognizes influential individuals in the industry whose achievements, hard work and vision have shaped the global cold food supply chain, the release said.
After more than five years of research and development and patent development, Battoe, in 2019, successfully brought to market a comprehensive temperature-tracking, smart data solution that captures, tracks, analyzes and reports a food product’s cumulative temperature excursion over time, producing a cost-effective, permanent digital record without electronics and within the product’s current environment, the release said.
Varcode’s Smart Tag mobile app and cloud-based, blockchain-enabled management system provide online grocers and meal kit companies with actionable data to pinpoint challenges linked to packaging engineering, global and seasonal climate variations, as well as shipping methods and other critical factors, Battoe said in the release.
“The dramatic growth of online grocery shopping and meal kit deliveries over the past two years has forced these companies to address and, in many cases, create entirely new operational standards for food product assembly and packaging, and last-mile delivery,” Battoe said in the release. “The unprecedented new levels of data our technology provides helps Varcode customers bypass ‘statistical noise’ and focus intently on actionable data they can use to quickly improve the efficiency and overall quality of their operations.”
