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'A little bit of chaos': How food supply chain is — and is not — working

Supply Chain Management Professor of Practice Hitendra Chaturvedi talked with Mark Brodie, co-host of KJZZ's The Show, about the implications of meat suppliers testing positive for COVID-19 and farmers dumping milk and letting crops rot.

Supply Chain Management Professor of Practice Hitendra Chaturvedi talked with Mark Brodie, co-host of KJZZ's The Show, about the implications of meat suppliers testing positive for COVID-19 and farmers dumping milk and letting crops rot.

In this story published May 13, 2020, on KJZZ's The Show:

The problem is that the packaging required by the retail, the kind of cut of meat that is required by the retail store, the quantity that is required at the retail store is very different than the product that's required by the restaurant. It's a whole new supply chain. To turn that from a business to a consumer supply chain, you need to create a whole new distribution network.


Hitendra Chaturvedi, supply chain management professor of practice

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