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

Last week, on Monday, June 19th, we hosted our first ever Masters of JustFood Seminar at the Shangri La Hotel in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The goal of the seminar was to connect food industry professionals from across North America with current JustFood customers to learn more about business software for the […]

Accurate production planning and scheduling is critical for a company to reduce changeover time between production cycles, minimize wasted materials and run effective manufacturing practices. Additionally, the data that can be mined from past manufacturing cycles is incredibly valuable. Historical data allows you to better forecast lead times, develop a […]

The health and safety of your food is important, but you should also be concerned with your food quality. If one low-quality food item makes it to a first-time customer, even if it’s an outlier rather than the norm, it could completely jeopardize your relationship with that customer forever. No […]

Food distributors, producers, restaurants and other food companies often split their attention between acquiring raw food materials and assembling or processing them into finished goods. The finished product is obviously important, but you also need to consider the safety, nutrition, and quality of the ingredients. Accordingly, purchasing is a major […]

This blog post was written in collaboration between JustFood and Joe Velez, Senior Consultant at Ultra Consultants. Ultra and JustFood have been working closely together with a couple food manufacturing companies. One to note is a global snack food company, one of the world’s largest producers of salted snack products […]

The JustFood team was in Phoenix, Arizona, last week for one of two regional User Conferences in 2017. Unlike events in the past, this year’s conferences were designed specifically for the end-users of the JustFood software with more hands-on training, in-depth learning sessions and one-on-one time with industry experts. Forty […]

Few things keep food producers up at night like the prospect of a product recall. At best, a product recall is a benign mistake that causes nothing more than aggravation, inconvenience and perhaps an angry customer or two. At worst, the consequences can be tragic, in both human and economic […]

Recalls are among the riskiest and most anxiety provoking challenges a food producer can face. The same situation that would represent a small financial setback for a maker of consumer goods can be a life and death matter when your product is meant to be literally consumed. Most food businesses already […]

When it comes to selecting a bar coding system or a tool for integrated lot tracking, there are plenty of options. But not all systems are created equal. If you want to get the most bang for your buck, you have to know what you’re looking for. We recommend the […]

Modern food processing and production equipment is more advanced than ever before—but while that means increased production capacity and yield, it also means more complications when something breaks down or goes wrong. Instituting a proper preventive maintenance strategy can help you ensure that your equipment keeps working effectively, mitigating the […]