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Mission Foods:
Quality Enhanced By Unifying Procedures and Benchmarking Progress

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Summary

Since 1949, Mission Food’s commitment to quality has made it one of the largest processors of tortillas in the world. Operations in Mexico, the United States and Central America, demanded that Mission Foods streamline transportation costs and develop key performance metrics to be used in several production plants. Partnering with Penske resulted in a uniform set of transportation procedures and technologies to provide supply chain visibility, as well as, the development of necessary benchmarks to track company progress.
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  Challenges   Solutions / Results
  • To reduce overall transportation costs by centralizing Mission Foods' transportation operations.

  • To enable Mission Foods to handle increased transportation volume associated with a substantial increase in product demand.

  • To develop key performance and financial indicators to track and measure performance across Mission Foods' 11 U.S. plants.
  • Penske implemented a uniform set of transportation procedures and technologies to provide supply chain visibility, including its proprietary Logistics Management System software and satellite tracking devices.

  • Since 2000, Penske has delivered a 13 percent cost per pound reduction, despite an increase in product demand and fuel prices.

  • Penske teamed with Mission Foods’ budgeting team to establish benchmarks, including transportation cost per pound, variable impact of volume, cube utilization per trailer, average miles per gallon of fuel and transportation delay times.


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