Thunder Bay and Area Local Food

1. City of Thunder Bay
&
Local Food
Supply Management
Dan Munshaw

2. Strategic Supply Chain
The development and implementation a
strategic supply chain can bring value
creation beyond the basic satisfaction of
an organization’s immediate needs and
provide an organization with a
competitive edge.

3. Strategic spend may:
- Enhance care of the environment
- Support and improve social
enterprise
- Reduce / eliminate exploitation of
child labour
- Increase local & regional economic
development
- - Improve corporate image

4. Thunder Bay City Council has been a
strong supporter of strategic spend thru
supporting our SEEP (Sustainable,
Environmental, Ethical Purchasing
Policy) and signatory to the 2008 Thunder
Bay Food Charter.

5. Local food supply chain:
- Improve continuity of supply
- Improve economic development
- Reduce total costs (waste, taste,
nearness to market)
- Reduce total carbon emissions

6. Local Food Barriers:
- Resistance to change (additional work)
- Retirements & staffing shortages
- Separation of “fact from fiction”
- Limited budget resources
- Little market information (food hedging,
food waste audits ..)
- Limited interest from supply associations

7. 2015 (Draft)
Local Food Objectives:
- Develop & launch quarterly food
meetings
- Establish, measure & report KPI’s
(total food spend, regional, Ontario)

8. - Develop & implement “local made
easy” for simplified institutional
food buying
- Develop “farm to plate” programme
including social enterprise
inclusion, forward buy crops &
monitor growing progress via social
media

9. Questions ?