Category Archives: Software

Feature Definition – Product Availability for Meat Packers and Processors

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

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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Is your problem data, integration or reporting?

Or all of the above? I was travelling last week visiting a couple of meat packers and processors. One of them was a large sausage manufacturing facility, a market leader in their space. The reason for my visit where desires … Continue reading

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The need to learn coding!

I have been working as a food engineer for technology companies pretty much all of my professional life. As a student at food engineering school I actually started, really badly I admit, to write software programs to automate my homework. … Continue reading

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GS1 compliant software solutions

I don’t really know what happened this week. We are between the holidays and people left and right of me have their challenges of being GS1 compliant. It must be that time of the year, where people get around to … Continue reading

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