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Offering Prayers While Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2008-2009, nine died and hundreds became ill. The investigation into the activity at PCA began in 2009, after the U.S. In 2008, the company manufactured 2.5% PCA’s customers were larger food manufacturers. The manufacturers sourced the peanut butter primarily on cost. The sentence is groundbreaking.

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Reducing Supply Chain Costs

Logistics Bureau

Manufacturers: best in class <10.3% industry average 6.8%. In the consumer packaged goods sector, this problem is big enough to have prompted the use of collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment (CPFR) between manufacturers and retailers. Product packaging is a case in point.

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Supply Chain Digest Presents the Best in Supply Chain Content.

Supply Chain Digest

Consumer Goods and Retail Supp. Lean Manufacturing/Supply Chai. Manufacturing Technology. Packaging Optimization. The electronic version of the 16-page Supply Chain Digest Letter on Supply Chain Performance Management 2009. Bar Coding/Label Printing. Compliance Networks. Demand Planning/Forecasting.