Scenario: You work for a confectionary company that uses ingredients such as cocoa and sugar, but you are having trouble tracking the whole supply chain to see if your ingredients are made ethically. You operate in a country where there is no requirement to be transparent about where your ingredients are sourced. What are the advantages and disadvantages of educating your consumers about your supply chain?

Mystic bottling company bottles popular beverages in the bottling department. the beverages are produced by blending concentrate with water and sugar. the concentrate is purchased from a concentrate producer. the concentrate producer sets higher prices for the more popular concentrate flavors. a simplified bottling department cost of production report separating the cost of bottling the four flavors follows: