Jennifer Simonson is a business journalist with a decade of experience covering entrepreneurship and small business. Drawing on her background as a founder of multiple startups, she writes for Forbes ...

Instead of relying on vendor projections, food manufacturers should conduct their own ROI analysis that accounts for industry-specific costs, compliance requirements, and operational realities.

The“social cost-benefit analysis” (sometimes abbreviated to SCBA ) has long served that purpose. Cost-benefit analyses are not new. They gained prominence in the United States in the 1930s to guide ...