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Download PDF Rarely has the supply chain come under as much pressure as it has over the past nine months, but a global pandemic was just part of it. CPM gets some insight from Britain’s biggest buying group on what lessons can be learned. It’s a system that can ill afford to go wrong at the start of spring, just as arable farmers enter their busiest period. By Tom Allen-Stevens The nation may take for granted the people who look after its health and ensure a plentiful supply of food. But the many tributes paid to the NHS and #FoodHeroes during the coronavirus pandemic suggest that everyone’s nonetheless grateful that the system is coping. For AF Group, it’s been the ultimate stress test in what was already proving to be a difficult season, according to business manager for crop production Martyn Rogers. It’s his role to ensure the group’s 4000+ members have all the supplies they need, when they need them, to bring a crop from seed to harvest. And COVID-19 bowled him and the AF Group team something of a curved ball. Once lockdown started, a skeleton staff kept the office open, but most of the team worked from…
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