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Overview of barcodes in the Food Industry for dummies

A lot of companies approached me over the past few weeks about challenges they had with barcodes. While I wrote already a few items on the topic, I thought to write a general overview for people with the necessary resources … Continue reading

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Expected vs. Actual

Last week’s blog post provoked quite a response. If you remember, we talked about optimization procedures and cost management of your own fleet. Some had difficulties understanding why companies install $6,000 or more in terms of equipment on their trucks … Continue reading

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Freight Optimization in the Food Industry

If you walk through a big box retail store of your choice, you may notice that some of the food items you can buy have the lowest costs per lb in average across the entire assortment. I know from practical … Continue reading

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Trends in software evaluations

It is that time of the year again. Companies look back at their results and look forward creating their budgets at the end of accounting year, which most of the times coincides with the calendar year. That is that time … Continue reading

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unable or disabled IT department?

I work in technology and I sometimes think that technology sucks. Recently I started learning programming in jscript, as I wrote on this blog a few weeks back, but just the other day I was challenged to program our coffee … Continue reading

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