How a Copacker Recouped Cash on Expired Invert Sugar [Part 4]
If you have expired invert sugar in your facility, you may know that it’s not as easy to recover as its dry cousin, extra fine granular (EFG) sugar. Unlike expired EFG — that can be pushed back through the refinery — invert sugar syrup creates handling challenges, such as heating the product to make it […]
How a Bakery’s Inventory Logistics Challenge Ended with a Cash-Rescue Win [Part 3]
If you’re in food processing and you stop making a product, you might end up with excess inventory. As expiration dates shrink, and you explore what to do with the unwanted ingredients, inventory logistics can create issues — some foods are easy to offload; others, not so much. In the third story of our four-part […]
How This Bakery Recovered Cash From Its Excess Inventory [Part 2]
Last month, we kicked off a four-part series about food industry businesses rescuing profits on problem inventory. This month, in part 2, read about a bakery’s excess inventory success. Excess inventory can be tricky to manage. A canceled order or discontinued food product may result in still-good ingredients sitting in the warehouse. More importantly, every […]
How 4 Food Companies Won Big on Problem Inventory [Part 1 of 4]
As anyone in the food industry knows, problem inventory creates challenges. That includes losing money on the investment, shelling out more cash to dump the ingredients or paying to store the unusable product. However, problem ingredient stories can have a happy ending! In this four-part series, read how each food industry business found a way […]
