Companies have historically focused on costs, quality, product characteristics and on-time delivery as key performance indicators of their supply-chain management and engagement efforts.
Stakeholders such as customers, government and non-government agencies, academia, and investors want to know if a company is performing in a sustainable manner.
The primary role of packaging is to maintain the quality and safety of food under certain conditions for a specific period of time, as well as to provide identification and information.
It is hard to deny that the development of dialogue between animal agriculture and consumers has been a focal point for most food processors and retailers in recent years.
Any processing equipment in a meat or poultry plant will be measured by its output, but the amount of product it can produce is only a part of the story