Can Regulatory Compliance Help Grow Your Food Business?
The primary goal of a food business is to generate profit, but food businesses must also prioritize regulatory compliance – and this can be a heavy burden to carry. The good news is that profits don’t have to be sacrificed. With the right technology, the highest level of regulatory compliance can be achieved while actually […]
12 Icicle Features that Help Occupational Health and Safety Compliance
Hazards are inherent in food preparation. From knives to industrial equipment to slick floors, every production facility faces unique safety challenges. Icicle’s toolbox has an answer to every problem, helping you fulfill Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) requirements in one easy, integrated food manufacturing software. Why Comply with Occupational Health and Safety Requirements? In 1991, […]
New Features: Keeping an Eye on Shelf Life, New Sales Dashboard
This installment of New Features looks at a whole slew of new ways for Icicle to make your life (and food production management) easier. Several new features to help you keep an eye on your ingredients’ and products’ shelf life to minimize waste and loss. New reporting features for production, sales, and purchasing also help […]
Strategic Planning: Tips To Accelerate Your Food Business’s Growth
Most business owners understand that it takes focused strategic planning to grow their businesses, something we wrote about a few weeks ago, but many aren’t sure exactly where to begin. Implementing business-altering improvements can seem daunting, and the challenge is amplified when there isn’t a clear starting point. Thankfully, getting started doesn’t have to be […]
Why Food Manufacturers Need To Rethink Operational Efficiency
In the food manufacturing world, there’s an idea we hear time and time again: It’s just the cost of doing business. Sustainability costs, employee training costs, unscheduled downtime costs, soul-crushing audit stress – these things are unavoidable, but that doesn’t mean you can’t reduce them significantly by putting some strategic thought into your operational efficiency. […]
Strategic Planning: Working On Your Food Business Instead of In It
What’s keeping my food business from growing? Will my to-do list ever stop expanding? These strategic planning questions plague owners and managers, and sometimes it seems like there aren’t answers to them – only more questions, doubts, and struggles. You’re probably familiar with the feeling. At some point, every food business experiences this plateau of growth […]
Does Your Quality Assurance Team Have What It Needs to Succeed?
Your customers demand consistent quality. A high-functioning quality assurance program is the only way to meet this requirement – not only in terms of quality, but also to maintain productivity and outpace the competition. Misunderstandings between executive management and QA are hurdles that can be overcome by understanding the unique challenges QA Managers face. Lack […]
How Leveraging Data Optimizes Your Food Business
Data, data, data. We hear about it often in the worlds of big business and tech, but the truth is that we’ve only scratched the surface of how digital information can be used in our own industry. According to a 2018 whitepaper by PMMI, manufacturing as a whole (and particularly the food and beverage sector) is far behind […]
6 Signs That Your Food Business is Due for a Change
As the world adopts automation and other modern technologies, how do you know if your food business is falling behind? Many of the problems that food business face aren’t just part of the way things work – they’re inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and anchors weighing your business down. Most importantly, all of the things on this […]