About this episode

Brad Mooney discusses the financial strategies and metrics that drive success at California Dairies, a major producer of milk in California.

We take a deep dive into the finances behind the agricultural and food beverage sector with Brad Mooney, Director of FP&A at California Dairies. FP&A drives success at California Dairies which produces 40 percent of California’s milk (300 family-owned and operated members ship 17billion pounds of high quality milk annually) and is a manufacturer of quality butter, fluid milk products, and milk powders (including Challenge and Danish Creamery and milk powder brand, DairyAmerica). In this episode former Marine Corps turned FP&A leader Brad Mooney talks: Building the plane as we flew it building FP&A The metrics of “Timing yield and supply” at California Dairies The Four Ps in finance building Effectiveness of planning and forecasting in a supply-driven business My view of FP&A Development FP&A as therapist

People in this episode

Host: Glenn Hopper

Guest: Brad Mooney

Topics covered

• FP&A
• agriculture
• food beverage sector
• financial metrics
• planning and forecasting
• supply chain management

Keywords

• FP&A
• California Dairies
• milk production
• financial planning
• supply chain
• agriculture finance
• forecasting
• business management

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: California Dairies, Challenge, Danish Creamery, DairyAmerica

Products: butter, fluid milk products, milk powders

Places: California, California

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