FSMA Overview: A Look at The FDA’s Seven Major Rules

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FSMA Overview: A Look at The FDA’s Seven Major Rules

President Obama signed FSMA, Food Safety Modernization Act, into law January 4th, 2011. It’s considered the most sweeping reform of food safety laws in more over 70 years. The Act was put into motion to ensure that U.S. food, for both humans and animals, are safe for consumption by focusing on preventing vs. reacting to […]

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Is Your ERP Working as Hard as it Can?

Imagine you are running a company and every workstation in your office is an Apple IIe. Or, on the other end of the spectrum, you’ve invested in top of the line computers for your entire staff, only for them to use them for email, word processing and nothing else. In the first scenario, you are […]

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Enterprise resource management

4 Signs it’s Time to Implement ERP

For most small to mid-sized business owners, growth is the ultimate goal. For those businesses that actually accomplish sustained growth, eventually difficult decisions will arise. Just like you eventually outgrew your favorite pair of shoes growing up, your business will eventually outgrow the software systems you’ve put in place to run your day to day […]

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ISM: Manufacturing Activity Expanded in July 2016

For the fifth straight month, the Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PSI) showed that the manufacturing activity expanded. There was a slight ease during the month of July, but the overall view of the report shows that manufacturers are doing better now than during the October 2015 – February 2016 time […]

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3 Ways ERP Can Automate Your Human Resources

When people think of ERP they immediately think of the ways it can automate their operations. From warehouse management to invoicing customers, there are countless ways that ERP can help streamline day to day processes and improve the bottom line. One thing that most people overlook when evaluating an ERP system is human resources. Most […]

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Fear Factor: ERP Edition

Do you remember that show, “Fear Factor’, where contestants would jump out of a helicopter onto a moving truck that was on fire all while eating a bowl of scorpions? When it comes to ERP implementations, it seems as though a lot organizations would rather opt for the scorpions then take on a major software […]

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