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The Food and Agricultural Code describes regulated business practices and the affected parties , which include manufacturers , distributors , producers , wholesale customers , and brokers . Although DLA still warehouses some critical high - demand military items , he noted , " a significant portion of the warfighter 's supplies are shipped directly from manufacturers , distributors and strategic suppliers with whom we have prearranged contracts with surge provisions . The Group 's customers are original equipment manufacturers , distributors , value-added resellers and larger end-users . For the small shoe manufacturer , problems with leather availability and quality are compounded by the fact that the three tanning groups are also vertically integrated with major shoe companies : Bata , G & D Shoes and Superior Footwear . This organization brings together annually hundreds of men and women who have worked their way up from the bottom to the point where they are now in some cases bankers , merchants , manufacturers , planters , etc. Accenture formed the Pharma RFID group with drug manufacturers , distributors and pharmacies . We are the commodity suppliers the glass industry , electronic device manufacturers , plastics and polymer industries , equipment suppliers , wire and cable makers , and steel , aluminum , and other metal industries . On Friday , Big Blue introduced its WebSphere RFID Information Center software , which is designed to let interested parties - - manufacturers , distributors , wholesalers and government customs agencies - - work with and share the data from the tracking tags . This was done by interviewing eastern and western Canadian representatives at all levels of the agrochemical industry i.e. manufacturers , distributors , and retailers .