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Produce & Tree Nut Best Practices for Harvest Season: Direct from Growers
While some produce and nut operations receive their raw ingredients cased and palletized, the vast majority receive them from contracted growers during harvest. Keeping track of growers, fields, lots and inventory during harvest is one …
Managing Re-work with ParityFactory
Are you having trouble keeping track of the production, consumption and traceability of rework product at your facility? The US Code of Federal Regulation, defines food rework as being “clean, unadulterated food that has been …
The Worst Reason to Hold Safety Stock
To keep a competitive edge, it’s critical for food processors to minimize the need for safety stock. Unreliable balance reporting is the worst reason to maintain excessive inventory. There can be many names for safety …
Eliminate Manual Data Entry with Scale Integrations
Do you have several catch weight cases that are being captured and labeled? How about high-value totes in a busy throughput area? If yes to any of these, you should consider scale integrations to automate …
Reducing Inventory Variance via Digital Lot Tracing
While studies prove it out, we know from thirty years of experience that human error is one of the biggest factors of inventory inaccuracies and variances. Over forty-five percent of food manufacturing facilities still rely …
Catch Weight and Random Weight Best Practices
Struggling to find an easy way to capture catch weight items, invoice them correctly, while maintaining the proper inventory balances? While there are manual ways to manage this, the effort is high and prone to …
The Unexpected Benefit of Product Holds: Increased Capacity
One of the many best practices that ParityFactory enables is automated holds. For Quality checks. For reserving specific lots for specific customers. And, it turns out, for efficiency. Automated quality holds and releases have benefits …
Best Practices: Consolidating Private Labels into Templates
One of the things we rarely talk about when we talk about ParityFactory software, is what a huge impact it has on our private labeling customers. Many are already using labeling software like Bartender or …
ParityFactory’s Lot Tracing Solution featured at PROCESS EXPO
Of all the ways in which we help our customers grow, thrive and produce safer food, our instant lot tracing is the most crucial. Not only does it help our customer run a more efficient, …
How Barcoding Reduces Turnover and Training Costs
With unemployment hovering near zero, what we’re finding is that hiring and staffing is one of the biggest challenges facing our customers today. The goal of lot tracing software at a food manufacturer is increased …
Best Practices for Traceability and Recalls
Every food processor knows a recall can wreak havoc on their business. Best case scenario you experience a minor financial set back, worst case can lead to a complete shutdown. Having the proper procedures in place to …
Stay Flexible and Avoid Customization with a Food-Specific Solution
Food manufacturers are moving away from heavy ERP customization, largely because of the risks and expense involved. Profit Solutions International published a great article about why ERP customization is losing demand, and we agree. With …
Parity Corporation Acquired by Working Knowledge
We are excited to announce that Working Knowledge (SAMM LLC) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Parity Corporation, an industry leader in software for primary and secondary food manufacturers and parent …
Customer Success Story: Peterson Farms
Peterson Farms is the largest privately owned fruit processor in Michigan. The facility focuses on the production of fresh-cut apples, producing 45 million pounds annually. Peterson processes fruits from more than 500 U.S. and Canadian …
Featured FAQ – Calculating Your ROI
We are excited to launch our new and improved Frequently Asked Questions page! We have added a ton of new content that we hope will provide a lot more information about ParityFactory—including costs, equipment you’ll …