Hosted by CPA and presented by Pedrom Rejai, president and founder of Elevate Growth Partners, this session walks through the big shifts happening in supply chains right now and what they mean for copackers, comanufacturers, brands, and retailers. You'll leave knowing which trends actually affect your operation, what the winners are doing, and what's crashed and burned.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the macro shifts hitting supply chains: import cost inflation, trade volatility, and the push toward multi-sourcing for resilience.
• Identify what the winning companies are doing and what experiments have failed.
• Discuss how technology is changing the back-office labor equation and why the operations implementing it correctly are pulling ahead.
• Learn where custom-built systems have become affordable for mid-size operations, with real-world examples of what they cost and deliver.

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Hosted by CPA and presented by Attorney Eric Greenberg, Of Counsel, Croke Fairchild Duarte & Beres, and Principal Attorney, Eric F. Greenberg, P.C., this session discusses the regulation of food contact packaging materials.

Learning Objectives

• Summarize the basics of how food contact packaging materials are regulated
• Review the role of FDA compliance guarantees from suppliers and discuss how to read and improve them
• Discuss potential new legal changes about substances deemed Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS)

Hosted by CPA and presented by Dr. Bryan T. Griffen, CPC, President, Griffen Executive Solutions, this session discusses how to be successful when launching new products. 
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Learning Objectives ‍

• Identify the most common causes of delayed launches, budget overruns, and customer frustration.
• Learn practical techniques to improve communication, accountability, and execution across brands, contract manufacturers, and contract packagers.
• Discover how successful organizations reduce risk and accelerate time-to-market without adding unnecessary bureaucracy.

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When most co-packers think of ERP, they think disruption: blown budgets, months of confusion, and frustrated operators who can't get their job done. But for Stutz Packing, the experience was different.

In this seminar, we’ll walk through how Stutz deployed ERP in a way that felt calm, controlled, and — most importantly — effective. No trial by fire. No runaway costs. No broken trust between the office and the floor.

If you're running a co-man or co-pack business and want the benefits of ERP without the pain, this session will give you a practical, real-world roadmap to follow! Watch now to discover more!