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Giant performance failure in a peanut supplier

The failures at Peanut Corporation of America are tragedy in every way. This supplier failed to meet both regulatory and customer requirements. Its customers failed either to uncover or report the failures, and people died as a result. Now a healthy, everyday product is suspect, and faith in the U.S. food processing industry has been [...]

Just Off the Press: Supplier Evaluation & Performance Excellence

My new book, Supplier Evaluation and Performance Excellence: A Guide to Meaningful Metrics and Successful Results, has just been published this week. This is my first experience as a book author (although I did publish a shorter e-book in 1999 on Improving Company Performance Through Supply Chain Management Practices). The book is available through the [...]