SUSTAINABILITY CASE STUDIES
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How Laser And Optical Sorting Maximize Quality And Throughput
Morada Nut's biggest concern is providing customers the highest quality products. This case study shows how optical and laser sorting technology helped boost product quality while increasing efficiency.
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How Automated Sorting Technology Promotes Growth And Sustainability
This case study tells the story of how the Nedato cooperative, a 500 farmer potato co-op, implemented automated sorting technology to boost the quality of its products and foster growth.
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Stolle Machinery Unites Multiple Divisions With IFS Applications™
In January 2004, when aluminum giant Alcoa divested from Centennial, Colorado-based Stolle Machinery, Stolle’s management had to make some fast decisions about its enterprise application platform. Stolle Machinery designs, manufactures, and distributes equipment for the metal container industry. This equipment is used by packaging giants like Rexam and Ball, and these Stolle customers supply beverage companies like Coca-Cola and Pepsi as well as companies that can supply major food products, including SPAM®.
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How Implementing A Modern IT System Improves Order-To-Delivery And Profits
By investing in a modern, integrated business system, this company achieved a variety of efficiencies, including dramatic reductions in both finished goods inventory and lead times on customer orders.
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Butchers Pet Care Masters Demand Driven Manufacturing
Butcher’s Pet Care has implemented IFS Applications as its core ERP system. Delivered on-time and within budget, the investment provides a complete business management system with advanced forecasting and demand planning capabilities.Customer service support is also benefiting from increased visibility and seamless connectivity between sales, production and the warehouse. Read more about how Buther's Pet Care mastered the art of demand-driven manufacturing with IFS Applications.
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Drink Manufacturer Eliminates Spreadsheets With ERP Software Integration
For Intercontinental Brands (ICB), the days of manual recordkeeping are gone. Its investment in software applications has given it room to grow, and dispensing its spreadsheets and filing cabinets for good.
SUSTAINABILITY WHITE PAPERS & ARTICLES
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Agricultural Bioengineering And Food Manufacturing: Navigating The Regulatory Terrain
Advances in gene editing are disrupting agribusiness, but what are these advances? How are they regulated? And what’s to come for? In a regulatory landscape that is often overlapping and frequently subject to change, this article is designed to help navigate the complicated terrain.
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2017’s Top Refrigerated Food & Beverage Trends
To understand why food and flavor trends are born, or step into the spotlight in any given year, it is important to understand their surrounding couriers and influencers. A courier acts to shuttle a trend in from a neighboring focus, while an influencer can be seen as an ally to a trend. For the coming year, I have examined food and beverage drivers for patterns.
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Facing Food Waste Head On
The food manufacturing and processing industry has changed since I began my career 35 years ago, but the persistent problem of food waste has remained a constant challenge. The statistics are quite staggering. According to the USDA, an estimated 12.7 billion pounds of meat, poultry and fish are thrown out by consumers each year. Even before food can reach consumers, an estimated 2.7 billion pounds of meat, poultry and fish — valued at $8.8 billion, or about 5 percent of all such inventory — are thrown out by retailers each year. Food waste is an intimidating challenge and one that processors, retailers, and consumers all play a part in tackling.
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IFS ERP Mobility Survey
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.
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What Happens When Enterprise Software Is Too Hard to Use?
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.
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Using ERP For Process Manufacturing Quality Management
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.
SUSTAINABILITY NEWS
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Cargill Meat Plant Eliminates Waste Being Sent To Landfills4/22/2015
Cargill’s meat-processing facility in Hazleton, PA, ships more than 10 million pounds of packaged meat each month, yet it sends zero waste to the local landfill. However, it wasn’t always that way, according to Aaron Humes, the plant’s general manager.
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- Battery-Less Temperature Sensors Now Available In UK & Scandinavia
SUSTAINABILITY MULTIMEDIA
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In this podcast, Nick Merriwether of IMA Dairy and Food, discusses with Food Online Voices some of the recent innovations within thermoformed containers and how those innovations are benefitting food manufacturers. Further, Merriwether explores what he believes to be the latest trends in packaging for food manufacturers and dairy processors. Finally, Merriwether addresses consumers’ demand for food products with extended shelf life and how active sterilization and packaging methods are helping meet that demand.
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In this podcast, Dr. Gregory Siragusa, Sr. Principal Scientist of Microbiology at DuPont Nutrition and Health, discusses with Food Online Voices of the dangers that consumers face today in spite of all the efforts to improve food safety, as well as some of the advances in detection technology that are enabling food technologists to better protect consumers. Further, Dr. Siragusa acknowledges that there is no single solution to address every microbial threat to food safety, but addresses the need to address and eliminate a wide variety of threats. Finally, Dr. Siragusa discusses DuPont’s Detect and Protect services and how it helps address microbial issues in food production, such as spoilage and food waste.