General Mills, Nestlé and more discussed how they are cutting operational costs, navigating uneven freight rates and sharpening demand forecasting at a Barclays conference.
Boxes of Cheerios cereal from General Mills sit on a shelf at a grocery store in Berkeley, California. Companies like General Mills, McCormick and Mondelēz described how they used supply chains to reduce costs at the Barclays Global Consumer Staples Conference this month. Justin Sullivan via Getty Images