Category Archives: Organization

Execution of an ERP Project in the Food Industry

Last year I started exercising. For people who know me, this is somewhat of an unbelievable thought. My wife started about 6 month earlier than me, and I am still catching up. We both would like to participate at some … Continue reading

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Feature Definition: What is an item?

Does this question look silly to you? Believe me, it is not! In my experience implementing computer systems, this question is one of the most profoundly discussed topics when companies in the food industry head into the implementation of new … Continue reading

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Feature Definition: Yields in the Meat Industry

I had an interesting week behind me, a week that had been capped with my first sales presentation in about 2 years. It was exciting and interesting to start solution discussions about the big opportunities, in this instance, with a … Continue reading

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Food ERP – Focusing on External Profits

Ever since I worked in the large field of business applications for food and beverage companies, internal streamlining, cost cutting, head count reduction and other cost savings measures have been a primary driver in ERP implementations. We use these to … Continue reading

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FOOD ERP – the role of the item number

After writing pretty passionately and sometimes emotionally about traceability for the past several weeks, I will go back to the roots of the blog. It has been my intend to give users and management some important information about aspects of … Continue reading

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