ERP systems are a big part of TransLution™ Software – integration into a client’s existing ERP is largely what sets TransLution™ apart from other products. As your business expands you may consider changing your ERP system to match the growth of your business, or you might be considering a new ERP system to better suit your needs.
Whatever the case, Columbus Food has a useful, free ebook featuring essential steps to help you avoid failure during an ERP deployment.
There’s no doubt that barcode scanners are an essential tool in streamlining data capture, eliminating what used to be a time-intensive manual process.
The use of these handy tools, hold many benefits for businesses, as highlighted in this article on Barcode.com.
“Given the many advantages that come from moving from a manual inventory system to barcoding technology, it’s easy to see why so many companies choose to take advantage of barcode scanners.” – Kevin Kennedy, Barcode.com
In the food manufacture industry, following best practices in quality management will not only guarantee compliance and quality, but also ensure that the significant expensive of massive product recalls can be avoided.
Following best practices can help businesses to avoid common pitfalls such as, high rates of quality failures or the inability to correctly track waste, protecting both your organisation and the consumer.
TransLution™ Africa was tasked to deploy our manufacturing and warehouse information gathering software, TransLution™, to assist mining managers to accurately report back on all mining operations in real time, at all times and continue to produce quality materials, on time.
The 3.60 release of TransLution is focused on making the product more robust and easier to implement and in addition has the following set of changes that end users of TransLution will appreciate.
We have extended functionality of Quality Manager on the EazyTouch platform to include a new kind of overlay called In Line Data Capture. This enhancement allows operators to capture quality data as it relates to the production environment.
Technology continues on a progressive path forward, but how will technology in barcode scanners change in the coming years?
With the requirements of the warehouse floor evolving, so too should the hardware. A common problem seen in manufacturing and warehousing is the ability to both scan and move items around. The operators are therefore required to carry a scanner as well as whatever they are moving, making tasks tricky to perform simultaneously.
Here are some of the possible changes we could see to combat this issue.
With many of our clients in the food industry, we felt it would be interesting to look at some of the international food trends for 2015.
Greater confidence and certainty about the future – for both their own and their organizations’ prospects – characterises food professionals’ attitudes as they look forward to 2015, according to feedback from Food Processing’s 14th Annual Manufacturing Trends Survey.
Using a barcode scanner to capture data directly into SYSPRO is the ideal way to manage a production process, eliminating virtually all manual processing. The task can be achieved quickly and easily with TransLution™ Software – using the EazyScan module on the barcode scanner, key information is scanned and updated directly to SYSPRO. Because all of the functions are pre-configured, any operator can do these updates.
To demonstrate just how simple this is, we have highlighted a number of common SYSPRO tasks and completed a step-by-step video of the steps involved
At IB McIntyre innovation is a process that involves thinking about their business every day and looking for opportunities to improve. Jonathan Dawson, Commercial Director, says “In today’s world a business must be like a chameleon constantly adapting to changes in the environment.”
Praga is an automotive supplier; they manufacture and supply automotive body parts to Ford and a number of other manufacturers.
Ford is now requiring that all of its suppliers comply with new regulations for the scanning and labelling of products shipped to them.
