Author Archives: Administrator

Pink Slime, social media and the truth

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Administrator

I perhaps should not use the term “Pink Slime” as somebody that caters to the meat industry, I think it illustrates a point. I was travelling for 8 days visiting my favorite meat conference, the NAMP Management conference in Chicago, … Continue reading →

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Feature Definition – Product Availability for Meat Packers and Processors

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Administrator

About a year ago I wrote a blog post explaining the weaknesses of MRP concepts in the meat industry. They usually just don’t work. The reason for this is that commodity meat market behaves more like a the oil market, … Continue reading →

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How to get GS1 compliant labels – in 89 simple steps

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Administrator

Over the past couple of weeks I covered the technical standards and aspects of GS1-Labels and the applicable standards for the food industry, as well as the physical challenges of printing and applying labels within the food industry. Well, it … Continue reading →

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Labeling within a Food Production Facility

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Administrator

It seems that a lot of people enjoyed my post last week about general bar coding standards for the food industry. As a matter of fact, these standards are already widely implemented within some segments of the food industry. When … Continue reading →

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Overview of barcodes in the Food Industry for dummies

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Administrator

A lot of companies approached me over the past few weeks about challenges they had with barcodes. While I wrote already a few items on the topic, I thought to write a general overview for people with the necessary resources … Continue reading →

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