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This is a long and in-depth analysis from Supply Chain Quarterly on a case study from a two large US food manufacturers and retailers and how multi-tiered cooperation across their respective supply chains resulted in $31m improvement to the companies’ bottom lines. The two adopted a cooperation framework model developed in a US university, but much of the really hard work lay in setting realistic targets, and articulating what those actually were to each other.