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“Use before.” “Sell by.” “Expires on.” The American food industry and consumers have struggled with these terms for years. The confusion about food safety leads to excessive food wastage. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service, Americans discard approximately 133 billion pounds and $161 billion worth of food  each year due to safety concerns. To improve the quality of consumables and decrease the food wastage problem, the FDA decided to provide its own guidelines on labels  asking the food manufacturers to use “Best if used by,”  to show when a food product may be at its best quality. This guideline is now widely accepted and implemented in the food industry to store eatables. However, there are still some businesses that aren’t familiar with this practice. If you’re one of them, here’s why it’s important to introduce correct food labeling on your products. Understanding Food Labels: Food packaging should have a...

Unfortunately, for many businesses, the effectiveness of ERP systems begins to decline post go-live or it doesn’t live up to the hype. New employees come in, business strategies are revamped, and workflows change while the system unsuccessfully tries to keep up. Reasons for failure are at times pinned to poor architecture, faulty implementations, or insufficient integrations. At its very core, less-than-impressive performance is due to a failure to incorporate the go-live phase within the ERP project plan. According to Technology Evaluation Centers , 50% of businesses are planning on upgrading or acquiring an ERP system, this wouldn’t be the case if there was a problem inherent to the ERP system itself. In this blog, we’ll go over a few post go-live ERP optimization tips that’ll help you avoid common problems. Adopt a Proactive Approach Even if there aren’t any complaints of system speed, it’s recommended to start measuring your system’s performance anyway. There’s a good ch...