>> Now I've been talking about the retailers but how do you deal with the sources of foods that you're using to make your products?
>> We really have 2 different kinds of businesses that our products break into. We have some products that we manufacture on a continuous basis and for those products frankly we're using the same demand signals we're getting downstream with our on the demand side we're bringing that back in and we're translating that into the most efficient way to supply it and then communicating that with our business partners that supply us. For the other part of our business particularly in the Legacy Del Monte business the fruits, vegetables, tomatoes that's a seasonal pack business so that business we actually have to predict what the demand is going to look like over a long period of time over a year and then we need to manufacture to that to those quantities to that demand during the relatively short pack season that aligns with when the crops come in.
>> I'm really interested in that crop side though in terms of what if there's a crop shortage, how do you plan for that? How do you deal with that?
>> Well you really can't plan for a crop shortage cause you don't know you're gonna have one in advance. What we try to do is remain flexible in terms of how we promote our products at retail and how we forward deploy them and how we allocate them against the demand so that when we do have products that have a shortage or that have some kind of a supply break we can understand which retailers need those products, how to get it to them and where we might have frankly problems that we can't overcome where we've gotta work hand in hand with the retail partner and make do with what we have.
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