For agricultural companies and food producers, however, rising commodity prices can be a blessing or a curse, depending on where the company is in the food-processing chain.
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"If the tax office hadn't called, I wouldn't be where I am now, " laughs the 33-year-old, now president of Plaza Create, Japan's largest photo-processing chain, with over 800 shops.
And a lot of times, farmers are not making all the money from their products because it goes through this chain of shipping and processing and distribution, and there are a lot of middlemen between the farmer and the end user.
That means measuring and reducing the embodied energy of a product throughout the supply chain, from materials extraction to processing to transportation to product use and disposal.
According to Remy Nathan, assistant vice president for international affairs at the AIA, the changes will streamline paperwork and processing requirements throughout the supply chain.
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Later, as Olam moved up the value chain, Verghese set up his own processing plants in India, Vietnam and Brazil, ultimately taking the full cycle of cashew production back to Nigeria as well.
Soderquist was in charge of data processing at Ben Franklin, a chain of retail stores owned by individual proprietors and franchised by the company.
Our closest aggregate measure of demand for the FSC products is the demand for Chain of Custody certificates, required of companies processing certified wood and fiber for products taken to retail markets with the logo.
Self-made European billionaires include a pair Germans, retail magnate Hugo Mann and supermarket-chain founder Eugen Viehof, plus Swiss data-processing executive Walter Haefner.
Mr Walker also claimed that at least one Irish meat processing company had been introducing horsemeat into the food chain.
If a retailing chain, for example, needs in-house mobile payment processing, Howerton and Hoch will recruit a team and oversee the creation of a company suited especially for that purpose.
The rise in the volume, variety, and velocity of data, the arrival of many new types of analytical tools all across the business intelligence value chain, and the emergence of new forms of computer science dedicated to data processing such as Hadoop, has created a vacuum.
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After seeing the collection of the nuts in Janga Town the day before, we were now getting to witness the processing of the nuts into butter, the next critical step in global shea nut supply chain.
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Natural language-processing experts, visualization and integration engineers, and product managers also play a role in the data analysis chain.
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