Food Factory Executive

Food Factory Executive Newsletter, July 2008

It is a challenging time to be a food manufacturer. As the costs of ingredients, energy, and labor are rising, margins are falling. Maintaining profitability, while remaining cost-competitive across your plant network, is at the top of your boardroom agenda.

Welcome to Food Factory Executive, a "must read" resource that will help you immediately impact your company's bottom line. We'll tell you what other Fortune 100 food manufacturers are doing to deliver 10% - 40% productivity increases in each of their factories. As your board asks questions like these, we will put in your hands the answers they want to hear.

  • Is your plant network delivering behind, or ahead of, the average in your sector?
    (Most manufacturers don't know.)
  • Do your production efficiency figures tell the truth?
    (For more than 80% of food companies, they do not!)
  • Can you improve costs by $500,000 to $1M per plant in the next 6 months?
    (You probably can.)
  • How are your competitors and other manufacturers staying profitable?
    (Read about what Bay Valley Foods is doing.)


One new concept we'll share with you in this and future issues is the value of A Complete Line of Site to your factory network. If "seeing is believing," then having a clear and complete line of sight to every site in your factory network is essential to learning just how much "efficiency" you are leaving on the shop floor.

To find that "lost" efficiency and start putting it back to work, CDC Factory offers The Factory Performance Audit and Benchmark. It's a practical, systematic analysis of your complete factory that helps you to derive insight and discover hidden profit. In this newsletter, we share some extraordinary things we have learned from performing the Audit and Benchmark for more than 100 food and beverage companies.

We welcome your feedback and comments – including hearing about your business and operational challenges. Please share your ideas and concerns with us at foodexecnews@cdcsoftware.com.

Read on to learn how your peers are tackling today's challenges and what industry analysts and experts are saying!


Enjoy,

Mark Sutcliffe
General Manager, CDC Factory  


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