I joined the Kahiki team in February, 2005 as Director of Purchasing. My previous work has been in distribution and production of natural and organic foods with medium sized specialty firms like Arrowhead Mills and Northeast Cooperatives. In October of 2005, my role changed to planning, coaching and leading our production management group in applying lean manufacturing to Kahiki. My group purchases raw materials and supplies, plans production, maintains our facility and equipment, makes, and finally, packages our products. We also handle warehousing and order fulfillment.