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5 Must-Have Features Food Producers Should Demand from Their Business Software

The reality of the day is that food producers must not only maintain a strong defense against recalls, but also against increasing regulations, food sensitivities in the population, environmental consciousness and PETA agendas. All this squeezed against tighter operating margins brought on by extreme weather changes and ever-mounting business fees and taxes. Many famous food industry names populate the FDA and USDA’s “rap sheet” of food producers who have been required to issue a recall of possibly contaminated foods.

Surviving and prospering now requires excruciatingly tight control of all aspects of food production from the acquisition of ingredients all the way to delivery of the food product to the consumer. Legacy stand-alone systems for processing, inventory control, sales and accounting simply cannot keep up.

“What’s been done in the past is no longer good enough,” says Jon Mainwaring, executive vice president of Oneir Solutions Inc.—a Queenston, Ontario, provider of scalable ERP software. […]

Five “must-have” features food producers should demand from their business software

The reality of the day is that food producers must not only maintain a strong defense against recalls, but also against increasing regulations, food sensitivities in the population, environmental consciousness and PETA agendas. All this squeezed against tighter operating margins brought on by extreme weather changes and ever-mounting business fees and taxes. Many famous food industry names populate the FDA and USDA’s “rap sheet” of food producers who have been required to issue a recall of possibly contaminated foods.

Surviving and prospering now requires excruciatingly tight control of all aspects of food production from the acquisition of ingredients all the way to delivery of the food product to the consumer. Legacy stand-alone systems for processing, inventory control, sales and accounting simply cannot keep up.

“What’s been done in the past is no longer good enough,” says Jon Mainwaring, executive vice president of Oneir Solutions Inc.— a Queenston, Ontario, provider of scalable ERP […]

Affordability Is Trending in Distributor Software

For many mid-sized distributors eager to expand, yet loathe to drain their budgets in the process, a new generation of fully-featured sophisticated business management software with customized modules is allowing them to utilize tools that have traditionally only been accessible to larger enterprises.

Call it multi-channel sales, inventory control, and accounting software, because these new do-it-all systems cover the bases from the manufacturer’s warehouse to the ultimate consumer. For a growing number of companies the flexibility, speed of implementation, user friendliness, and scalability of these new business management systems is impressive, particularly when factoring in lower cost offerings that drop the price tag from $50,000 or more to, in some cases, less then $10,000.

With flexibility a byproduct of the modularization of these new systems, a wide variety of businesses are embracing the trend toward enlisting wholesaling software to expand. Just in time, as the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors reports that in […]

Benefits to Automating Your Accounts Receivables: Part One

Many aspects of businesses can now be automated to streamline many processes, including accounts receivables (AR). By automating these financial processes, you can make a huge difference to both your business and its clients. Accounts receivables can often be challenging for many firms that are still doing their accounting the manual way.

Here are a few reasons why automating your AR can be beneficial for your company.

1. Standardize Your Collection Processes
Each member of your accounting team may have a different process for handling accounts receivables that come in. Your business can easily suffer from inefficient processing of payments if there is no adequate coordination in place. Having an automatic process for your records through your business’s ERP system can streamline the whole plan, and make it simpler for your company to be paid on time, every time.

2. Time Saved
Having an automated AR system in place can significantly lower the number of […]

4 Work Scenarios That Warrant Automation

Business are always on the lookout for ways to streamline their activities, and for many, the first step is putting a fully-integrated enterprise resource planning system (ERP) in place. Doing this can dramatically change the way businesses operate, making their practices more efficient.

But things can be made even easier when the system is automated. By combining automation with an ERP system, your company can get a big leg up in your industry.

Her are a few scenarios where automation just makes sense.

1. Lack of Accountability Among Employees
Many employees have a lot of integrity, but some don’t. If you have some employees on your staff that make mistakes and are not known for taking responsibility for them, automation of your ERP system could work well.

Automation helps companies assign an owner for each step of a specific process. Employees can be given certain permissions related to their role in the company so that […]

Oil and gas products reseller finds financial answer

Chetwynd Petroleums Ltd., a high-volume fuels distribution business operating in remote northern British Columbia, needed reliable integrated business management financial tools fast. It isn’t uncommon for the company to process 300-400 fuel sales a day or more – amounting to over 10,000 transactions a month for their on-account customers.

 

Yet the company was running accounting and billing on proprietary software from a local supplier that was about to go out of business.

 

The fuel distributor’s customers typically roll in to tank up from all corners of The District of Chetwynd, set in the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Rich in oil, gas, coal and timber, it is the natural transportation hub of the mighty Peace River Country.

 

Fortunately, Chetwynd Petroleums found that rare mix of the right tools, set-up, training and support for managing their finances. Within three weeks of calling Oneir Solutions Inc, a Toronto- based provider of scalable Enterprise Resource […]