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Can GHS Benefit Businesses and Consumers?
The initial implementation of GHS (Global Harmonization System of Classification and Labels for Chemicals) will be costly and disruptive for chemical distributors and manufacturers alike. However, the...
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7 Steps to Transparency for Food & Beverage Manufacturers
How to automate tracking and simplify transparency Both customers and regulators want food and beverage manufacturers to track ingredients and batches across the supply chain—as well as production. RKL...
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How to Optimize Your Inventory
Strike the Balance Between Too Much and Not Enough Managing inventory is much more than simply keeping track of how much you have on hand. For some companies, inventory is both the biggest asset on the...
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Ransomware Virus Holding you Hostage?
Ever had a run in with a ransomware virus? A ransomware virus such as CryptoWall is a virus that will encrypt files on your local computer then move on to any mapped drive letters. It can be “caught”...
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New Safety Data Sheets Standards You Need to Know Now
New standards become effective Dec 1st! If you’re a chemical distributor or manufacturer and you haven’t converted your Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) by now, you’re running out of time. In 2012,...
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Problems Managing Raw Materials?
Closely Manage Expiry Dates There are many reasons food and beverage (F&B) manufacturers should want to be transparent. Not only are there increasing requirements from regulators but consumers are...
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Disconnecting Web Sessions in Sage X3
New – Badges Licensing Structure With the release of Version 7, Sage implemented a new licensing structure called badges. When you purchase users for Sage X3, you specify the type of badge you are...
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SMB’s need to think about Cyber Security
Follow this months cyber security blog series. In his blog Get Your IT House in Order This Cyber Security Month, Walter Goodfield VP of Sales and Marketing at RKL eSolutions reminds the many small...
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Ready for the Affordable Care Act?
Attention Sage 100 Payroll Customers Are you ready for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Reporting that will be required for the 2015 Calendar Year? Have you updated your Sage software to include the ACA...
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Trace Ingredients Forward and Backward
Can you trace where your ingredients have been? In the push to be more transparent food and beverage (F&B) manufacturers need to be able to quickly track ingredients both forward in production and...
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How Secure are your Mobile Devices?
Mobile Device Security The ability to access the internet has rapidly evolved with the release of smart phones and tablets. While the widespread adoption of these devices has greatly improved...
View ArticleGhouling Ways to Applying State Sales Tax
Pumpkins, piercings and the paranormal: 10 scary ways states apply sales tax Reposted from Avalara Bwaahahaha! Is that the ghostly laugh of a Halloween haunt — or the auditor reviewing your sales tax...
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Tracking Allergen Information across Production
Many levels of ingredients flow through a food and beverage (F&B) manufacturer’s facility on a regular basis. Most operations will handle common food allergens such as tree nuts. In 2006 the Food...
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Network Security on a Budget
Afraid of Network Security? Network security is one of those areas of IT that most network managers and admins know they need to focus on more. For the small to medium business market, security...
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Setting up Users in X3 Version 7
When Sage X3 Version 7 was released summer of 2014, it introduced some changes to how users and security are configured. In this blog we will review the steps for setting up users in Sage X3 version...
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Track Lots across Product Lifecycle
When it comes to food safety, transparency plays a part in every stage of the food production cycle. Lot tracking has a critical role to quickly and successfully track down a specific batch of products...
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Ultimate Metrics for Supply Chain Performance
If your enterprise is designed to make money through the manufacturing or distribution of goods, then there are really only two—that’s right! Two—metrics that truly measure the performance of your...
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Sage 100 Visual Process Flows
Need help training a new Employee? Need the steps of a process you use infrequently? Visual Process Flows are an interactive tool that can be used to outline processes that are not performed on a...
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Use Business Intelligence to Monitor Operations
When it comes to transparency, business intelligence tools provides Food and Beverage (F&B) manufacturers a competitive edge by making information accessible wherever you are and when you need it....
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Achieve routing control with Engineering Change Order (ECO)
Is your Sage 500 missing out on functionality that could be achieved from Engineering Change Order (ECO)? If you can answer “yes” to these questions, ECO might be worth a review. Does your business...
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