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Kari Barnes

Head of Regulatory Standards, TraceGains

The Question...

Supplier Relations: How are you managing relationships with key suppliers in an increasingly volatile environment?

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Your supply chain partners are only as valuable as your ability to collaborate with them, clearly and quickly. When product specs, formula updates, or compliance documents are trapped in email threads or local drives, you’re adding risk and losing speed.

Teams are now working from shared digital workspaces, where co-manufacturers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders can all access the same source of truth.

Collaboration alone isn’t enough. What matters is controlled collaboration, with version control, approval workflows, and compliance tracking baked in. That’s how you move as one team, even across continents.

Kari Barnes

Head of Regulatory Standards, TraceGains


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