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Guide · 8 min

How to become a Yum Brands supplier (and what its supplier program actually wants)

Yum Brands does not buy directly. A co-op called RSCS handles roughly $6 billion in annual purchasing for KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza …

· Maya Okonkwo

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