Welcome to Season 9 of the Troubleshooting Innovation podcast. Joanie Spencer, editor-in-chief for Commercial Baking, is spending this season with Darlene Nicosia, CEO of Hearthside Food Solutions. They're talking about operations, culture and innovation … behind the curtain of co-manufacturing. Sponsored by Reading Bakery Systems.

In the fourth episode, Spencer and Nicosia take a look at what it means to be a modern contract manufacturer.