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In the middle of all of this supply chain chaos, supply chain managers are learning some useful lessons.

Take Danone, the yogurt producer, they realized they produced 300 different lids for their multitude of yogurt products, so they concluded they could simplify things by reducing the amount of different lids they produced “significantly”.

Are you looking into where you can simplify things within your supply chain?

[via Retail Brew]

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