Last week, we had the great opportunity of having Judi Lazaro host our Food Safety Webcast. Her “how to” on preparing for the Food Safety Modernization Act, or FSMA, garnered much attention fr...

I’m sure you’ve heard almost as much news and speculation about Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 as you’ve heard about “taking your business to the cloud.” Behind all the talk and fancy catchphrases, there is a lot of real value to implementing the new CRM. Here are 10...

Upgrading or replacing your current business software solution can seem like a daunting task. It often gets pushed to the back burner and the entire process is drawn out. But it certainly doesn’t have to be this way. I’ve worked with a wide range of companies, from those who are lo...

If you read our last blog post, you'll remember that IndustryBuilt is supporting a local robotics team with their challenge to improve food safety and food p...

For the past three years, IndustryBuilt has been quietly supporting the efforts of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). Never heard of it? Well it’s about time this organization, which...

Arguably one of the coolest new features of the JustFoodERP Release 11.01 is the addition of JF Floor. A simple name for a pretty complex module, JF Floor provides a mobile web interface that can be accessed by handheld or tablet devices running over a wireless network. Basically, it helps wit...

The votes are in and it looks like the next JustFoodERP User Event will be held in… drum roll please… Las Vegas!! Start practicing your poker face and pencil us in for April 23-25 because we’re hoping to...

We are very excited to announce the newest JustFoodERP 11.01 Release that just rolled out last week to our existing customers. Remember that Online Payment Service post we did just a few months ago? Well it’s finally available with the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 platform. In case you...

With a pressed shirt and a lunch packed by my mom, I walked into the JustFoodERP office with promise and a few nerves. As a marketing student at Ryerson University, having some previous knowledge of CRM software helped me land this internship. Much to the dismay of my employers, my experi...

If you’ve been using Jet reports or you are looking for more reporting options, then you just might want to consider using the newly released Jet Enterprise package. This new tool really compliments JustFoodERP and helps you analyze complex data all within Excel. A nice bonus is that Jus...

Over the last 6 months, we’ve been working hard on a central repository for business process templates, user guides, presentation slides, product videos and release notes and a bunch of other cool stuff.

Customers who are new to JustFoodERP or who are on-boarding with us o...

At out User Event this May, Judi Lazaro, Director of Customer Relations at AIB International, spoke to JustFoodERP customers about GFSI audits, inspections and overall food safety initiatives. AIBI has a very global presence with locations in North America, Latin America, China, Japan, Europe,...

If you haven’t been caught in the hype of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 release, it actually launched at the end of February and Microsoft has been touting it as the “power of productivity”. For those of you who have been out of the loop, here’s a list of cool feature...

With $30.2 million in funding, the Food Safety and Traceability Initiative (FSTI), run by the Ontario government, is something to seriously consider. Ontario food companies are eligible for up to $25,000 in funding. From my point of view, the province is trying to take a proactive stance on fo...

During the planning phase of an ERP implementation, many companies are faced with the dilemma of buying or building the software in-house. As new open source software packages often appear appealing, this becomes a tough choice. While building the software may give you complete control over th...

Our Food Safety Webcast on February 16th was one of JustFoodERP’s most popular webcasts so far this year, and the Q&A section following the presentation certainly benefitted from the audience involvement. Since we were asked some really good questions, we want to be able to share the...

At JustFoodERP, we’re getting into crunch time with our May event here in Toronto. With so much going on between arranging travel plans and setting agendas, we’re beginning to think that there’s a lot left...

What's up with all this talk about clouds lately? It seems as if every computing presentation has a section that mentions cloud computing. So what's the big deal? Well, before we get to what cloud computing means to you and your business, let’s go over what exactly it is that we’re...

Since the task of monitoring Live Chat was delegated to me a few months ago, I’ve faced some pretty tough questions. I thought it might be interesting to discuss what comes through Live Chat. We get a lot of questions about our product, demo’s, and webinars we’re hosting. Thi...

Everyone has an opinion on industry trends, and we are no different. Here are the things we are watching out for in 2011:

Food Safety
Food Safety is a hot topic and the feds have latched on to this one pretty well. The incoming Bill changes provide more l...

After recent scares with tainted eggs, peanut butter and spinach, consumers are now demanding better protection. Stronger government oversight is exactly what this bill is pushing for, and 73 members out of 98 in the Senate agree. On November 30, The United States Senate passed a food safety b...

Industry leaders are taking measures to reduce their carbon footprint. The list of the Top 25 Supply Chains was recently released, and there is a strong correlation between companies on this list and those that continually make the Fortune 500. Since supply chain management is clearly such a h...

Recently I read the article "Competing Against Store Brands: Pat Conroy, Deloitte LLP" by Albert Guffanti, and it got me thinking; Private Label brands are not going away even when the economy changes. Both as a marketer who works with food ...

Not only does JustFoodERP help increase your company’s profitability, but it will soon allow you to see these profits materialize as quickly and easily as possible. Using the web service capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, JustFoodERP 2009 R2 will be connecting to an online payment s...

Let’s be frank. This is a reactivation of the same Bill from last year (under a different name) and similar to other measures put in place temporarily since 2002.
This bill does what it says – gives business a 50% tax write-off immediately in the current year when making c...

First thing you notice at this year's WPC is that the event is too large for the conference center. Across 3 (or more) venues, the event has lots of sessions and information for partners to digest. With the keynotes held in the Verizon Center, the speakers address enthusiastic audiences in a...

We have recently added an option to our Lot Algorithms that places the week number into the lot no. based on a given date.
Recently, we had a discussion with one of our customers as they had logged an issue that the week number that we used was incorrect and was “off by 1”...

JustFoodERP's User Event finished last week.  Three days in Dallas, less than seasonal weather made up for with warm relations with customers.  I dont think a company can have better customers than we have.  It was great to see the time commitments made.  All but one h...

It’s a bird… it’s a plane… it’s an Industrybuilt computing cloud!

IndustryBuilt has invested in cloud computing infrastructure for its internal systems. With the growing needs of customers, and increasing integration between Dynamics NAV ERP and t...

You will be seeing “xRM” quite a bit from Microsoft in the next year.

What is the ‘x’ in xRM? Well, it’s the roman number “x” denoting a variable. Think of it as Anything Relational Management.

Microsoft has realized that...

Here is a statistic that boggles my brain each time I think about it. One quarter of JustFoodERP customers came to us as existing Microsoft Dynamics customers.

For those of you who are unfamiliar, every Microsoft Dynamics customer has access to something called Transformational...

We are starting to give everyone in the company nick names associated with SharePoint, or “Share.”, get it? Such as “Hey Share.Dan whats going on with Share.Dave and the new BCS component? Or “Share.Edwin, can you whip me up some of that Visio integration on the 2010 im...