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To: Jeff Redman who wrote (3691)	2/5/1999 2:38:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Respond to of 9818

<It says DATE CODES, do you have any idea what that is?, of course not ... the DATE CODES are expiration dates that the systems check to see if the product has expired or not. It is not just an internal Kraft problem.> From the time a raw material is ordered/delivered from an outside supplier ... until finished product is on grocery shelf ... a FUTURE DATE is assigned that travels back & forth and thru 10 different stages and departments - most within the company, but some also with outside suppliers: - Product Safety - Applied Nutrition - Corporate Purchasing - Finance - Quality Assurance - Marketing - Manufacturing - Logistics - Product Management - Product Research - Corporate Microbiology - Transportation/Distribution - Consumer Center Stages & departments taken directly from Kraft hand-out. Message 4392206 ========================================================= The PRODUCT DATE is crucial to the entire chain, from manufacture to warehousing. Since time is already short, Kraft will track the few products with 1.5 year expiration dates by hand. For products with a year expiration date, such as salad dressings, Kraft has calculated it can not "fix" them all, so they will drop 5 or 10 of the 272 varieties. Message 4248437 By JEFFREY MITCHELL (conference attendee)