CPG Cheat Codes
Tips, Tricks, and Resources for CPG Brands
How to Choose a 3PL for Your CPG Brand
How to choose a 3PL for your CPG brand: the food-grade storage, retail compliance, and Amazon questions that actually matter.
Raw Material Sourcing for CPG Brands: How to Source Ingredients and Materials the Right Way
How to source raw materials and ingredients for your CPG brand: find and vet suppliers, protect margins and quality, and avoid costly mistakes.
Supplier Diversification for CPG Brands: Why Single-Source Risk Hurts Your Margins
Why single-source supplier risk quietly hurts CPG brands, and how supplier diversification protects your margins, continuity, and growth.
Core (and Totally Doable) Hacks to Unlock More Revenue Via Your Shopify Site
That gap between "customer wants to buy" and "customer actually buys" is where a lot of growth-stage brands lose revenue. The product is usually fine and the traffic is usually fine. What's costing them is a handful of small things on Shopify that aren't turned on, aren't positioned right, or aren't there at all…
Inventory Days on Hand: Formula, Benchmarks, and How to Improve It
Inventory days on hand for CPG brands: the formula, what a good benchmark looks like, and how to improve it to free up working capital.
How The Best CPG Brands Connect Their Ops and Finance Departments
Most founders run finance and operations in silos. Operations pushes product onto shelves and keeps retailers happy. Finance guards cash and margin. They push and pull on each other, and although they are trading data back and forth, they are disconnected in terms of system and strategy…
How to Find the Right Co-Packer for Your Brand
How CPG brands should manage a 3PL: the KPIs to track, how to onboard, control costs, and avoid retail chargebacks so fulfillment runs smoothly.
3PL Management Best Practices for CPG Brands
Retail compliance is more than chargebacks. See the operational and product rules CPG brands must meet to sell into retail, and how to stay compliant.
Freight Broker vs Freight Forwarder: What CPG Brands Need to Know
If you are moving product as a growing brand, you have probably heard both terms tossed around by your co-packer, another founder, or someone at your 3PL, and maybe wondered which one you actually need. Let us break it down for you.
EDI Evaluation and Setup: A Mini Master Class for CPG
Getting EDI right comes down to a handful of unglamorous moves, done in the right order and early enough that nothing catches fire during your retail launch. Most founders learn that order the hard way, after the first stack of chargebacks land, but it most certainly doesn’t need to be that way. Hence, this mini master class!