How to Increase Efficiency of Your Food Business On A Limited Budget
In the world of food manufacturing, time really is money. Machine downtime, employee errors, and food safety failures require precious time and destroy the overall efficiency of your facility. And to make things worse, margins are shrinking and competition is growing, which makes these efficiency failures costlier than ever. Actively pursuing operational efficiency isn’t a […]
Icicle Helps The Chai Company Manage Their Complex Production Runs
“When it came to recalls and being on the ball with inventory management, a software system like Icicle was ideal for us.” And more testimonials from the Chai Company
Managing a Complex Production Run with Icicle: A Case Study with The Chai Company
Our friends at The Chai Company, Director of Operations Simon Lam and QA Manager Barbara Jedrzejewska, were kind enough to sit down with us and discuss how they solved some of their operational efficiency challenges by going digital and creating a centralized data hub for vendor management, inventory, food safety, and quality assurance with the […]
How to Prepare for SQF Certification with Icicle
There are three different layers of oversight that every food business must consider. The first is government regulations like FSMA, which are mandatory in your jurisdiction and for the purposes of exporting to others. The second layer is specialty foods regulations, such as organic, non-GMO, vegan, Kosher, Halal, and the like. The third layer is […]
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 […]