FROM FIELDS TO FACTORS TO STORES Companies today are looking for ways to build meaningful values ​​for consumers, and the Heinz Company is no different. Therefore, Heinz has looked at its supply chain management to see if it maintains a competitive advantage with its brands. From farm to fork, Heinz and its suppliers continually work to develop the quality and safeguard the production of their foods, while at the same time striving to reduce the negative environmental footprint by transforming it into a greener one. The Heinz supply chain encompasses those directly or indirectly involved in all activities, functions and factories and is essential from the start of the brand process movement and alteration of all services and goods to the final stage which is that of consumers. (Heinz, Supply Chain, 2014)Heinz continues to grow its business while maintaining a global ecological impact with its partners and suppliers. The company has viable and cost-effective growth achieved by partnering with product suppliers. This can also be achieved by educating all farmers on the best practices of growing tomatoes, not only more ingeniously, but more sustainably, beneficial to the environment, as well as providing progress in economic and social health concerns. The most essential part of a brand's vital operating process is the combination of merchants, their products, materials and services, which are crucial to the Heinz company. To ensure that every step of the brand process is capable of producing, marketing and often improving the thousands of distinctive foods and condiments produced for today's market. Heinz has... middle of paper... Balbinot, Global CIO, HJ Heinz. ComputerWeekly.com.Platt, E., & Wile, R. (2013, February 14). How HJ Heinz turned its bankrupt horseradish company into a billion-dollar ketchup conglomerate. Retrieved March 20, 2014, from Bussiness Insider: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-heinz-ketchup-2013-2?op=1Retail Link-Walmart and Sam's Club. (n.d.). Retrieved April 12, 2014, from Product Online Submission: https://retaillink.wal-mart.com/ProductSubmission/Saran, C. (2012, March 06). Heinz protects thin client PCs with Sophos. Retrieved March 28, 2014, from Computer Weekly: http://search.proquest.com/docview/236973489?accountid=27313Supply Chain Digest. (2008, June 10). Retrieved March 20, 2014, from Heinz Gets to One Number Forecasting: http://www.scdigest.com/assets/newsviews/08-06-10-3.pdfXerox. (2011). The case study of the HJ ​​Heinz company. Xerox Company.