Comment / Shipper radar: Always Coca-Cola – decontainerisation... or 'giving the box lines the finger'

Upstream and downstream supply chain strains are provoking unprecedented actions, of which we have read and talked about a lot lately.

And it was Friday last week that a procurement maestro from The Coca-Cola Company* (KO) received unanimous feedback in our marketplace.

(*Coca-Cola Cross Enterprise Procurement Group, aka CEPG)

A bit of numb, straight, one-off reporting duties today.

Alan Smith, procurement director at KO (near-$230bn market cap) wrote on LinkedIn (just one of his several remarks and highly valuable nuggets worth following; emphasis in bold added):

“When ...