Case Study
How Topco Accelerated GFSI Compliance and Eliminated Time Wasted on Paperwork
Topco Associates is a $14 billion, privately held cooperative that provides innovative business solutions for its more than 50 retail grocery and food service member-owners. Topco leverages its members’ collective buying power to create a competitive advantage in the marketplace by delivering aggregation, innovation, and knowledge management solutions. With its more than 1,600 supplier manufacturing facilities, more than 30 private-label brands, and more than 80,000 SKUs, the co-op’s collective volume in food is larger than Walmart’s. Case Study How Topco Accelerated GFSI Compliance and Eliminated Time Wasted on Paperwork Challenges • Supplier management at Topco was manual. Follow-up via email or telephone was cumbersome, time-consuming, and potentially error-prone, yet also nec