Each year, most businesses start new initiatives across their entire operations in an effort to improve efficiencies and increase performance. These initiatives are similar to ones made by individuals each New Year in an effort to grow profits and create a better working environment or build a better brand recognition. Cold food processors and their trading partners focus across a variety of initiatives, like building more robust technology infrastructures, automating more business processes, enforcing faster and better customer responses, offering greater control over inventories or improving collaboration with trading partners. But, at their most strategic level, these initiatives all tend to point to the same ultimate goal—to create a real competitive advantage.
Here are some Top 10 initiatives on how food processors can get their supply chains ready.