Food Material Handling White Papers & Articles

  1. What Are Your Responsibilities Under FSMA's Sanitary Transport Rule? 5/10/2016

    The FDA recently finalized one of its seven proposed rules under FSMA: the Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food. Proposed on February 5, 2014, the final rule was published in the Federal Register on April 6 this year and includes nearly 200 comments from industry, interest groups, and individual stakeholders. The rule aims to minimize public health risks associated with the transportation of food and beverages by building on the transportation industry best practices, such as properly refrigerating food, adequately cleaning vehicles between loads, and properly protecting food during transportation.

  2. IFS ERP Mobility Survey 5/5/2016

    This study illuminates how ERP software is accessed via mobile devices, what types of applications and interfaces respondents are most interested in, and how mobile is changing the way we work.

  3. What Happens When Enterprise Software Is Too Hard to Use? 5/5/2016

    Working outside of ERP systems can cause recordkeeping nightmares for manufacturers. This report explains what happens when ERP is too hard to use and offers way to simplify it.

  4. Using ERP For Process Manufacturing Quality Management 5/5/2016

    This white paper will explore how batch process manufacturers can select and use enterprise software with embedded quality management functionality to overcome their biggest challenges.

  5. 5 Tips For Managing Food And Beverage Supply Chain 5/5/2016

    The high-volume, transaction-intensive nature of food and beverage supply chain logistics presents significant challenges.Follow these five strategies to take the challenges out of your supply chain.

  6. ERP Solution Delivers Reliability Centered Maintenance 5/4/2016

    Most industrial maintenance experts understand the tenets of reliability-centered maintenance (RCM). But many may lack an equal understanding of RCM2. What is the difference between RCM and RCM2?

  7. How Enterprise 2.0 In Industrial ERP Works In The Social-Media Age 5/4/2016

    Highly-intuitive consumer technology and the rise of social media are influencing the way business software is deployed and used. How will you keep your business relevant in the age of social media?

  8. Report: Ease-Of-Use And Agility Of ERP Solutions 5/1/2016

    In early 2011, a study of middle market to large manufacturers was conducted by IFS North America and Affinity Research Solutions, a Boston-based research firm, among manufacturing executives and professionals to better understand usability of enterprise applications such as Enterprise Resource Planning, (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and Business Intelligence (BI).

  9. ERP Solutions In The Green Supply Chain And Multi-Mode Manufacturing 5/1/2016

    This study explains how enterprise software supports manufacturers by measuring environmental impacts of supply chains as well as conforming to supply chain requirements of customers.

  10. Cleaning Fruits Using Micro-Bubbles 4/26/2016

    Foodborne illness impacts about 1 in 6 Americans every year, and is caused by the consumption of foods contaminated with foodborne pathogens. Fresh fruits and vegetables are increasingly implicated in foodborne outbreaks and lack a step to “decontaminate” or remove any foodborne pathogens that may be present.