by Gene Hammons | Apr 9, 2014 | ERP, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing
April 4th, the FDA published a Final Rule expanding access to records of Food and Beverage manufacturers. Now, instead of requesting records related to a specific suspect food – the FDA can request records on any other food product they believe may be similarly...
by Gene Hammons | Jan 22, 2013 | ERP, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Uncategorized
In the information overload that is the internet, we have many trusted sources for information. Each source has a perspective, facts and opinion. This Mashup examines what we can learn overall, combining disparate sources and developing a Takeaway –...
by Gene Hammons | Aug 1, 2012 | ERP, Food & Beverage, Implementation, Profitization
SSI Managing Change and Incentive AlignmentsSuper Store Industries (SSI) is one of our early (WMS) customers. Supporting more than 350 grocery stores throughout Northern California and Nevada, SSI ships approximately 1 million cases of dry and frozen...
by Gene Hammons | Apr 14, 2012 | ERP, Food & Beverage, Software Selection
Don’t know if it’s time to strike up the band and belt out Happy Days are Here again at CDC Software – but the last few week’s news can only be positive. Back in August of last year I’d written some observations under the headline...
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 | 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...