Like most ground beef producers, Fairbank Farms uses multiple suppliers of trimmings, and the limits of its finished product testing became apparent in 2007 when it found E. coli in its ground beef and could not determine which of the trim suppliers had been the source.
Ian Drew, ARM's chief marketing officer, notes that Samsung has long used multiple suppliers.
Recently, another E. coli outbreak was traced to a hamburger maker in upstate New York that also used multiple suppliers, including Beef Products.
The factory that supplied Tesco with its 29% horse "beefburgers", for example, was using "multiple ingredients from some 40 suppliers in production batches, and the mixture could vary in every half-hour", according to the Irish department of agriculture.
UNICEF uses both single- and multiple-supplier LTAs to ensure greater supply security, and commonly splits arrangements to issue awards to multiple suppliers of each vaccine presentation., UNICEF procurement policies define 2 types of LTAs.
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Of them, 33 had used multiple medications.
It works by providing the buyer with a pre-approved revolving facility that can then be used to finance trade with multiple suppliers, "with the confidence of a cash buyer".
The bulk of the forecasted volume of LLINs for 2014 will be allocated using a 2-year LTA to multiple suppliers.
Procurement of equipment is a complex process, which requires the evaluation of multiple suppliers against project targets.
