Tag Archives: Food

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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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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The need to learn coding!

I have been working as a food engineer for technology companies pretty much all of my professional life. As a student at food engineering school I actually started, really badly I admit, to write software programs to automate my homework. … Continue reading

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GS1 compliant software solutions

I don’t really know what happened this week. We are between the holidays and people left and right of me have their challenges of being GS1 compliant. It must be that time of the year, where people get around to … Continue reading

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