Your Co-Manufacturer Just Became Your Bottleneck. Now What?

Boxes and crates filled with canned goods and wrapped packages, arranged for shipment on a dark blue surface.

Here is a failure mode we see constantly, and it almost always arrives disguised as good news. A brand wins a big retail expansion, a new chain, a bigger footprint, a national reset, and within weeks discovers that the packaging arrangement that carried it to that win cannot handle what the win requires. The co-manufacturer […]