Blog: Why a Food-Specific ERP is Optimal for Food Safety

It’s important for food manufacturers to have a clear understanding of what’s coming in and what’s going out of their facility. This is especially true for businesses that deal with perishable goods that need to be acutely aware of what’s happening both on a micro and macro level. Strategic lot tracking […]

For a food company in the early stages of business, QuickBooks accounting software can be a great investment. With QuickBooks, you gain access to industry standard accounting tools, helping you keep up with your manufacturing, labor and facility costs, manage vendor invoices, accurately bill customers and forecast for growth strategy. […]

Running a successful food business is complicated. Things like quality audits, food safety protocols, ingredient management and lot tracking are all crucial to the success of any food manufacturing or processing company. But without the proper technology in place, your company could be falling behind. Think about it like this: […]

The success of a food manufacturing company generally relies on how well an organization manages the safety and profitability of their product. When it comes to the safety and profitability of manufacturing and processing, there are few areas of focus more important than ingredient management. Companies need to have a […]

If you’re in the food manufacturing, distribution or processing industry, you know the importance of expiration date management. Between spoiled ingredients, stock overages, wasted labor and unnecessary spot checks, without the proper processes in place to address expiry date management, you could be losing big money. One of the most […]

Main Street Gourmet is a frozen bakery manufacturer specializing in custom products like muffins, bars, cookies, granola and brownies for national food operators and specialty grocery stores.   Located in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, Main Street has been around since the late 1980s, and has transformed from a single storefront location in […]

Food producers have a lot to gain by effectively managing the shelf lives of their ingredients and products: less waste, greater profits, better cash flow, happier customers and fewer recalls. But as clear as the benefits are, the best path to achieving them is equally cloudy. Things get even more […]

Last week, we looked at how systems put in place to keep a facility safe can fail if they’re not properly maintained and reinforced. In this post, we’ll look at 4 common food industry workplace safety mistakes that can be avoided by creating reliable safety and programs in place. Workplace […]

The “human error” myth For the most part, modern food production facilities are very safe. Managers use several levels of precautions to keep them that way. Training, rules, laws, checks, safety devices, organizational norms and formal processes are layered over one another to make sure that no single failure would […]

Part two of the JustFood User Conference 2017 took place last week in Toronto, Canada, at the Shangri-La Hotel. Over 50 JustFood customers from all over Canada and the US travelled to take part in the one-and a-half-day conference to learn from the JustFood team of experts. Unlike events in […]