Leading Companies in Food Logistics

On its webpage, Food Logistics 100 has listed many of the leading companies in the field, and give some of their benefits, both long- and short- term. Among the companies included, with some of their listed benefits, are: - Sterling Commerce— dual focus (increase in number of customers and at the same time lower costs and more efficient organization); streamlined order processes - FST Logistics— has upgraded its telephone system; uses RF scanners and new distribution software: all benefits that will result in greater operational efficiency - John Galt Solutions— helps food companies to improve their capacity to forecast economic performance, streamline activities that involve sales and inventory and, most of all:

- Technology Group International, Ltd.— Carrying costs of inventory are among the cheapest; production planning and purchasing systems are more sophisticated, with the result that orders are filled at what are among the fastest rates. But that is the reason given by FL 100. According to TGI themselves, on their own web page, some of the benefits of Enterprise 21 technology, given here in their own words, include: - forward and backward lot traceability software functionality - product shelf life and expiration date tracking - formula and recipe, order, purchasing, financial, recall, and complete inventory management

- business intelligence - eCommerce - a fully-integrated, RF and barcode enabled warehouse management system, and - product shelf life and expiration date tracking

Enterprise 21 is one of the number one producers of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software for food companies— and for businesses in general. TGI also has a host of new food manufacturing and distribution software. In the category of managing software, they have: - process managing software, for supporting "lot traceability" (the tracking of products from the time they come in until the point where they are used for manufacturing and ultimately go out to the market) - formulas and recipes— supports "scalable batches," the integration and online reviews of recipes, their duplication and updating, and tracking the ingrdients involved - scalable batches (mentioned above)-- Enterprise 21 can scale recipes so that their ingredients fit into whatever batches are available.

Their food distribution software is also fully integrated and includes "available and capable to promise," purchace requisitions, quoting and estimating, wireless warehouse and barcoding, and serial number and warranty tracking solutions. TGI certainly belongs on FL's list. - scalable batches (mentioned above)-- Enterprise 21 can scale recipes in order to fit whatever batch sizes are avyailable