by Gene Hammons | Aug 15, 2011 | ERP, Food & Beverage, Uncategorized
From 2005 to 2009, I worked for CDC Software in the Food and Beverage group – worked with a lot of great people, had some great successes, worked with some wonderful clients – but the company fell on hard times. Last week, (Aug 8) things at CDC hit...
by Gene Hammons | Jun 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
You can contact Gene via GH@GeneHammons.com. I remember Richard Nixon, in some speech, somewhere, calling himself “The Education President”. I can remember George W. Bush making near the same claim while passing the Teddy Kennedy authored “No...
by Gene Hammons | May 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
The title of this new blog effort – Making Sausage – takes a look at stories behind the scenes at food producers. Mostly from a perspective of ERP software and other IT improvements – probably because that’s where I play. I’ve been doing...
by Gene Hammons | Sep 15, 2008 | ERP, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Uncategorized
Q1 bottom line profits up $350K at the same time sales are off 17%! Recently we had a huge ‘win’ at a ERP implementation customer. And excuse the vagueness of detail, but many private companies like to stay ‘private’ that way. But here’s the story. Spring of...
by Gene Hammons | Dec 6, 2007 | ERP, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Software Selection, Uncategorized
“We can’t afford to save 36 jobs and an $8m Company!” They didn’t use those words, but that’s what they said. The Partners Snoburst Bottling is the story of two partners, Jim* the Entrepreneur and Stuart* the Accountant. Jim’s...
