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Supply Chain Transparency: Critical To Meeting Consumer Demands
9/7/2017
Flash back to 2007 — two 20-somethings stop at a burger joint. They order and eat thinking only of taste and price. Imagine that scenario today, but with assistance from smartphones offering data on the establishment’s source of beef and other data. This column will explore how consumer demand for transparency is critical to remaining competitive.
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Would Your Food Safety Plans Survive In Court?
8/22/2017
Believing your food safety processes are of the highest standard isn't enough. Can you be certain every employee made the best food safety decisions every time they faced one? Can you support this with data? If not, ask another question: “Do you want to sit in front of a jury relying on a belief your company produced food at the highest possible standards?”
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Considering In-House Food Pathogen Testing? Answer These 8 Questions
8/10/2017
From time to time, we come across companies planning to incorporate a food microbiology lab for in-house testing. But, sometimes companies don’t understand the complexity associated with starting these labs. This article presents key questions companies should ask to help determine if an in-house food microbiology laboratory is appropriate.
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How Artificial Intelligence Can Help F&B Supply Chain Management
7/19/2017
Supply Chain Management is a constant struggle. Between giving consumers insights, meeting their demands, keeping real-time inventory, and ensuring all products meet quality specifications, there is a lot of data to manage. That's where Artificial Intelligence (AI) can provide F&B companies with new supply chain insights to stay ahead of the curve.
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Complete Lab Packages
7/19/2017
Spectrophotometry should be an important part of all brewers' quality analysis, and having an instrument that is simple and easy to use is essential in keeping the process running smoothly.
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Evolve Your Wholesale Distribution Business With Software Built For The Cloud
6/29/2017
Consumers today want it all. They don’t just want fast shipping, or free shipping, or ready product availability. They also want to purchase products however and wherever they would like. As a distributor, you face a choice—you can either deliver what consumers want or face a loss of business as people vote with their pocketbooks.
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Cloud ERP Solution
6/27/2017
NetSuite is engineered to scale with businesses as they grow and to streamline mission-critical processes. In turn, this allows them to continue focusing on what they do best and to react to new market opportunities swiftly and confidently. From advanced financials to supply chain management to billing and beyond, NetSuite ERP gives companies the tools they need to accelerate growth and drive innovation.
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Avoiding Recalls Through Physical Hazard Prevention: Are You Doing Enough?
6/13/2017
Preventing physical hazards in food continues to be challenging, and frequently, the reason for companies and/or regulatory agencies issuing recall notices. A brief review of the recalls viewable online at Recall.gov indicates that the number of recalls for physical hazards per month ranges from zero to eight involving USDA and FDA amenable products. This article will provide steps to help food companies keep physical contaminants out of food, as well detail the latest technologies helping to reduce physical contamination-related recalls.
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Executive Guide To Real Time Operations Profitability: Manufacturer Benefits
6/9/2017
This is part one of a two-part paper addressing the value of implementing a real time operations infrastructure to gain visibility, productivity, quality management, and real-time asset utilization.
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Real-Time Operations Profitability: Benefits Manufacturers Can Expect
6/9/2017
This paper addresses the value of implementing a real-time operations infrastructure to gain visibility, productivity and throughput, quality management, and real time asset utilization.