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QUANTITATIVE CASE STUDY 10 CALIFORNIA NUT INDUSTRY THEFT QUANTITATIVE STUDY

   

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Running Head: QUANTITATIVE CASE STUDYCALIFORNIA NUT INDUSTRY THEFT QUANTITATIVE STUDY Student’s Name:Institution Affiliation:

2 CALIFORNIA NUT INDUSTRY THEFTIntroductionCalifornia is the leading commercial producer of almond, pistachios, and walnuts, with United States being the global producer commanding a market share of about 80% of the total world’s production. The consumption rate has also increased on an average of about 2.17 poundsper person in the year 2016/2017 crop year. The products are consumed either as ingredients of the manufactured products such as granola bars or as snacks (Rehm & Drewnowski, 2017). California nut farming and the processing industry contributes about $7.6 billion and $3.4 billionrespectively to the United States of America The nut products does not only attract consumers but also criminals that have made the California nut industry run into losses due frequent numberof nut thefts. In 2013, about 35 truckloads of almonds, pistachios, and walnuts worth $10 million disappeared in California while in 2015 a truck driver whose paperwork was iffy vanished with products worth $450,000. Many criminals are hacking the company’s system and trick the farmer’s representatives of the nut industry, thereby collecting almonds from them before disappearing. These thefts have been rampant in the past years and have caused the farmers and the company loss of millions of shillings in every year that eventually affect the economy of the United States since most of the stolen product end up in the black market. The paper examines the impact of the of the nut theft in California and further provide the analysis of the situation, by covering the amount of the loss, the weak points favoring the theft process and recommendations on how to limit the theft cases.

3 CALIFORNIA NUT INDUSTRY THEFTCalifornia nut industry Supply ChainThe supply chain is the business designed process to enable the collection and delivery ofraw materials from the farmers or suppliers for processing and then delivery of the product and services to the designated customers. The process entails, farmers, transporters, manufactures, suppliers, warehouses, retailers, and customers, therefore proper management of the supply chainensures that the products reach the customer at the correct time. Below is a diagram representing the California Nut Industry Supply Chain. Figure 1shows supply chain of California Nut IndustryThe California nut industry supply chain starts from the farm, where the productions of the nuts happen. California State is the main grower of commercial nuts; however, nut farming also happens in other counties thus imported into the United States for processing. The imported nuts are always shipped into the United States and collected by a designated transport company or the California Nut industry Company, while those grown in California are collected by

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