How Food Traceability Solutions Help Maintain Customer Confidence
Consumers’ confidence in the food they eat is eroding. In the last few years, FDA food recalls increased nearly 400%, largely thanks to salmonella and undeclared allergens1. Ghastly stories about contaminated foods causing illness and deaths across several states further diminish consumers’ confidence in food — and in the retailers where they purchased the recalled […]
Efficient Traceability in Your Supply Chain
September is National Food Safety Month. What better way to discuss food safety than by speaking about three ways to have efficient traceability in your supply chain. There are three primary ways that traceability can assist with your supply chain. Recall control, employing software systems and understanding quality standards. So far in 2015, U.S. food […]
How a Packaging Execution System Helps Businesses Create Lean Manufacturing Initiatives
Adopting lean manufacturing principles has helped companies drive waste out of their operations and improve supply chain efficiency, but in many cases these lean initiatives overlook a critical area: packaging. If packaging is not included in a company’s lean efforts, there is a gap in both visibility and optimization. A packaging execution system (PES) can […]
4 Benefits of a Packaging Execution System for Your Business
A packaging execution system is crucial to the efficiency and accuracy of your business’s packaging identification process. Packaging execution systems allow you to centrally monitor and control all actions related to your packaging identification process. All departments of your business — accounting, inventory, finance and distribution — will have access to data pertaining to your packaging […]
