The phone rings just after dawn. You’re informed by your controller that a supplier paused shipments. A cyber incident upstream has frozen invoices, which means products might not arrive for the weekend rush. At the same time, card processing fees have spiked again, and a new state regulation changed how your team needs to report shrink. None of these issues are new, but for financial leaders across the food industry, this story is becoming familiar. The pace of disruption is speeding up, and the biggest pressures are no longer siloed. Payments, cybersecurity, inventory accuracy and compliance now collide in ways that test even seasoned executives.
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