Building a Strong Food Safety Culture: Lessons from Industry Leaders
In the wake of recent foodborne illness outbreaks, food safety experts are emphasizing the critical importance of organizational food safety culture in preventing contamination incidents and recalls. The McDonald’s E. coli outbreak serves as a powerful reminder that even the most established companies can face serious food safety challenges. The recent FoodTech Innovators Podcast episode […]
Introducing Icicle’s Allergen Database Plus More Ways to Track Sales Performance
The latest batch of new features from Icicle ERP users – which covers April through June 2023 – boosts food safety and quality assurance standards with the new Icicle Allergen Database, trending for inspection results and scores, and help text for QC checks to make sure they are completed correctly. We’ve also focused on enhancing […]
Simplify Compliance Management with Icicle ERP
For food and beverage manufacturers, one hallmark of success is being able to leverage your success from one market to another. Whether you are expanding sales across a border or regulatory jurisdiction or targeting specialty markets like organic, allergen-free, or kosher, the ability to secure high-value compliance certifications with savvy compliance management is essential. The […]
Solve Employee Training and Competency Management with Icicle ERP
As the global economy recovers from recent supply chain disruptions, there is still one issue causing great challenges for food manufacturers. In 2022 alone, labour and skills crises cost the Canadian manufacturing industry an estimated $7.2 billion as businesses were hit with penalties, delivery delays, and lost contracts caused by understaffing. Food manufacturers in particular […]
Access Funding to Nurture New Talent for Tech Adoption & Succession Planning
Canada’s food and beverage manufacturers are modernizing – whether those innovations are motivated by vision or heightening regulatory compliance that emphasizes modern technologies – and that process involves the pains of transition. We’ve profiled some of the national and provincial funding programs to ease adoption of new and improved systems before on this blog, but […]