What We’re Reading: The Importance of Traceability in Dairy June 27, 2023 By Advantive Can you trace all your dairy ingredients back to their origins? Making the leap to selling products to the largest clients – like the Walmarts and Costcos of the world – requires meeting rigorous traceability standards. Lately, we’ve been having a lot of conversations about traceability with dairy customers looking to scale up their distribution, … Continued
Manufacturing and Distribution Software Provider Advantive Expands Solutions with Acquisitions of ParityFactory and VeraCore May 23, 2023 By Advantive
The Importance of Inventory Tracking by Location March 28, 2022 By Advantive When it comes to warehouse management, the ability to track inventory by location is key to maintaining precise and sufficient inventory levels in real-time. ParityFactory’s robust location tracking functionality facilitates this accuracy through the adoption of scannable location barcodes and a variety of configuration options that allow our users to track their inventory at the … Continued
Customer Keys to Success with a New ParityFactory System November 16, 2021 By Advantive The Project Management team at ParityFactory oversees all of our projects to get new customers ready to configure, test, and use their custom-built ParityFactory system. Our teams will do much of the work to make this happen, but every project also involves a customer handling many tasks as well, from providing us information to testing … Continued
Costing for Multiple-Output Production with PF and NetSuite May 6, 2021 By Advantive NetSuite (and many other ERPs) facilitate the costing process in production when the production run has a single output. But what do you do if you’re breaking down a side of beef? Or producing different private label products on the same line? ParityFactory’s combined solution solves this issue, and provides the ability to fine-tune the cost … Continued
How ParityWellness Could’ve Saved 15 Million Vaccine Doses April 12, 2021 By Advantive Today, we learned that 15 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine were ruined when ingredients for Astra Zeneca were mistakenly mixed into the J&J doses. This is a dramatic example of something that happens every day in wellness and pharmaceutical manufacturing. Typically, it’s something a bit less catastrophic than the destruction of a critical vaccine. … Continued
Managing Reverse BOMs and One-to-Many Manufacturing Processes January 25, 2021 By Advantive Most manufacturing processes begin with a Bill of Materials (BOM), from bicycles to swing-sets, tires to airplanes. Financial tools and the more robust ERPs are designed with these kinds of BOMs in mind: many individual pieces go in, and one finished good comes out. This is great for operations who specialize in discreet manufacturing, but … Continued