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Up-to-Date ERP Software Green Bay Cheese needed an ERP software package that could track individual cheese lots from raw material receipt through consumption in manufacturing and onto shipment of finished product to its retail and food service customers. It also had to manage special customer pricing requirements based upon the current market price for cheese, provide detailed costing of manufacturing operations, and prepare customer-specific private labeling of product including product details and lot analysis information.FE-Jan-07-cover The producer found its solution with Technology Group International’s ERP package, Enterprise 21. With this ERP system, the cheese manufacturer is able to electronically store womb-to-tomb lot tracking of cheese so that a given lot of cheese can be traced to all customers who received material produced from that particular lot; interactively calculate online customer pricing based upon cheese market price and customer pricing factors; and automatically generate customer-specific labels which include not only customer logos and barcodes, but also the retail customer’s price to the consumer. Click to read the full article from Food Engineering Magazine.