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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. This accepted certification failed to pick-up a decade of PCA quality issues: holds, recall, and customer complaints. This confession comes seven years after selling of contaminated food. What happened?

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Novo Nordisk: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

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Performance and Improvement within the Pharmaceutical Industry for 2009-2015. Previously I worked at Nestle, and I want to start by recognizing that pharmaceutical companies have different supply chain maturity levels compared to companies in the fast-moving consumer goods industry. We are not as mature as CPG or Food/Beverage.

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Earth Day spotlight: What it means to be a Benefit Corporation in CPG

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Prashant Dube, COO Good Food for Good B Corp spotlight: Purely Elizabeth While some companies find that their established business practices help them achieve a B Corp certification, other companies like Purely Elizabeth used the B Lab assessment to build the framework for their business in its early days.

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Logistics Industry’s Slow Economic Comeback Continues in Spite of Challenges

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trillion, an increase of $114 billion from 2009. percent from 2009 levels, with trucking lagging behind the performance of other modes, rising only 9.3 percent from 2009 levels, with trucking lagging behind the performance of other modes, rising only 9.3 Business logistics costs rose to $1.2 Transportation costs were up 10.3