Operations Expert in Nutritional Supplement Development, Food, & Cosmetics
Streamline your venture with our strategic guidance
About Prairie Nutrition
About US
About US
About US
California Prime LLC (DBA Prairie Nutrition) is a management consulting firm that brings technical and business expertise to real life problems, and provides customized solutions in CPG sector.
Our Team
About US
About US
We work with a selected pool of seasoned executives with 20-30+ yrs of functional leadership experience. Our team includes business leaders, supply chain leaders, scientists, manufacturing & logistics experts, Product & Package R&D experts, scientists, medical researchers, and regulatory compliance experts.
Consulting Services for Small Businesses
Supply Chain Strategy Consulting
An end to end supply chain process audit, gap analysis, recommendations, and implementation strategy for improvement. We assist with Operations goal setting and KPIs that support your organizations strategic goals. We work on forecasting, demand planning, supply planning, and inventory management best practices to eliminate stock outs and excess inventory situations.
S&OP Consulting
Taking a demand driven supply chain approach, we work on both - first time implementation of S&OP or improvements to an existing S&OP process. Business priorities change, and therefore S&OP objectives should also change. We work on data mapping, process design, communication plan, and executive buy-in.
Product and Process Development Consulting
With Specific focus on food, nutritional supplement, skin care, personal care, and color cosmetics portfolio, we assist with nutritional supplement and cosmetics development projects that match your requirements. We would conduct laboratory trials and provide samples for your approvals. Once approved, our team will help with pilot and scale up all the way to commercialization.
Sourcing, Procurement and Contract Manufacturing Consulting
Our team will not only source ingredients, packaging, manufacturing, and 3PL partners , but will also help negotiate quality, cost, and terms to optimize your total cost of ownership. We look at risk mitigation, supply continuity, landed cost, dual sourcing, and innovation aspects.
We can also manage your day to day relationship with your contract manufacturing partners and ensure orders are placed on time and products are received in stock on time. We will man routine problems such as components not in stock at a turnkey vendor or quality issues.
Regulatory compliance and quality SOP Consulting
Our team would navigate regulatory landscape including but not limited to your county's health department, FDA, relevant CFRs, USDA, and foreign ministries of health to ensure you stay in compliance. Team can also work on SOPs, GMP, regulatory pathways, nutrition fact panel, health or functional claims (not therapeutic), safety assessment, and facility registration.
***Enquire about low or No MOQ manufacturing of Cosmetics and Supplements***
We are very aware of challenges faced by startups or emerging brands as no manufacturer wants to produce small volumes. As a matter of fact, even established brands with sizable revenue face this problem for their new product test marketing or B or C class products. Therefore, we will soon off low MOQ contract manufacturing