Category: Produce Blueprints

Managing member of Earl Roy Enterprises, Cynthia Vead says one commodity in particular is a significant summer draw: watermelon, though she says it’s getting to be a year-round crop too, with imports.

For Mark Hayes, president of Harvard, IL-based grower-shipper Twin Garden Sales, Inc., summer produce means sweet corn.

What may not dissipate with the end of the pandemic are soaring costs, suppliers say. It starts with trucks.

Now that summer is here, produce businesses open up full throttle, though spiraling costs have some suppliers concerned about how fruitful their bottom lines will be.

When the quantity of cargo received at destination is less than the quantity listed on the bill of lading, carriers feel the squeeze. In this article we’ll take a look at loss and shortage claims against motor carriers.

Razor thin margins, price fluctuations, and high levels of product waste tend to drive a cost control mentality in the produce industry.

Putting all your proverbial eggs (or fruits and vegetables) in one basket is a risky proposition. A wide range of problems can jeopardize product flows originating from a single grower or region.

If we learned anything during the early days of the pandemic, it’s that supply chain team members are essential workers. Frontline staff working in the fields, packing plants, and warehouses perform critical tasks and provide the capability to keep up with demand.

When faced with a crisis, organizations focus on the big issues that impact supply chain success—labor, transportation, key suppliers, and major customers. Yet we learned over the last two years that the little things often matter the most.

There’s so much talk about the abundance of data, analytics, and digitalization that it’s difficult to imagine that many companies lack the business intelligence to make sound supply chain decisions—yet that’s the reality for some organizations.