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COVID-19 Survey: Latin American CPGs Redouble Efforts to Keep their Supply Chains Active

Close to two thirds of CPGs surveyed by Mundo PMMI in Latin America (65%) affirm that their companies will continue to work despite Covid-19 crisis. Problems with supply chain persist.

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A large number of respondents to Mundo PMMI survey (80%) are making internal adjustments in expenses, purchases, adapting shifts, teleworking, optimizing their inventories and specializing in product references of greater need and output.

At Mundo PMMI we wanted to know what Latin American CPGs are thinking in the midst of the disruptive and unforeseen circumstances their companies are experiencing today due to coronavirus crisis.

The ample response from readers to our questions about their operations in the midst of the current pandemic allows us to draw an overview of the moment and their expectations for the near future. We asked them through an online survey launched on April 2nd, and the results could not be more surprising: in less than two days we received nearly 951 responses from various countries in the region, mostly from those in charge of the course of their companies in different areas: CEOs, presidents, directors and senior executives (25%); managers and sales representatives (10%); production, operations and quality assurance area managers (18%), and professionals in charge of engineering activities (8%).

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Responses came from different mass consumer packaged goods sectors in the region, with a major participation from food and beverage manufacturers, as well as from the health care, personal care and cosmetic sectors.

The first issue we sought to analyze was the disruption that CPGs are facing in their supply chains – supplies, ingredients, packaging materials, spares parts, -- among other elements essential for their daily work.

Less than a month after the alarms went off and the mandatory isolation measures and border closings began, 41% of companies participating in the survey reported suffering disruptions in their supply chain, seen in Graph 1.

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