US Business Executive Magazine Profiles Giovanni Food Company and their Technology ‘Secret Sauce’

 We’re always proud when our customers are recognized as industry leaders – such as sauce manufacturer Giovanni Food Company being featured in the Spring 2012 edition of US Business Executive Magazine. (Check out pages 69 through 71 in the online edition.) Giovanni was also written about in the Feb. 2012 edition of the Central New York Business Journal, with a focus on its expansion due to a new contract to private-label bottle barbecue sauce.

The Syracuse, NY-based company is best known for the DeMent, Luigi Giovanni and Greenview Kitchen brands of pasta sauce, pizza sauce, salsa and other tomato-based products. Its USDA- and third-party audit approved facility in DeWitt, NY allows them to pack and co-pack organic-, kosher- and gluten-free-certified products for companies worldwide and ship them to customers across the U.S., Canada, Israel and other countries.

The US Business Executive article discusses how fast-growing product lines and complex partnerships resulted in Giovanni management choosing to start working with JustFoodERP and Microsoft Dynamics NAV in late 2009, allowing for transparency across all their operations in the tracking of:

• Food safety
• Sales reporting
• Purchase planning
• Inventory management
• Manufacturing
• Shipping
• R&D
• Accounting

Although Giovanni Food Company was founded way back in 1934, there is nothing old-school about how they stay abreast of the latest technologies to give them a competitive edge in their industry. Just like the selection of Microsoft Dynamics NAV and JustFoodERP has brought innovation and improved efficiencies to their business processes, Giovanni is now looking into running three production lines at their DeWitt plant, and becoming an ‘green’ manufacturing facility, kicking off a partnership with a not-for-profit organization that verifies renewable energy claims.