News / Food supply chain players are getting a taste for diversification

Food shippers and retailers are increasingly attempting to diversify their sourcing locations to introduce greater resilience so their supply chains can withstand external shocks. 

The SVP of products and strategy at supply chain management and visibility platform e2open, Pawan Joshi, told The Loadstar a strategy to produce as much food as possible at the lowest cost led to a vulnerable reliance on specific locations for production. 

“What has happened over the past few decades is a natural concentration of production of rice, ...