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 […]
Integrated Traceability is Key for FreeYumm’s Allergen-Free Snacks: A Case Study
We sat down with Terry Goulah, Vice President of Operations and co-Founder of FreeYumm, to talk about the solution FreeYumm found for the complex traceability and vendor management challenges posed by making allergen-free and non-GMO products. Meet FreeYumm It would be hard to tell from the shelves of supermarkets that 10-40% of the global population is affected […]
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 […]