According to Rebecca Gill, Vice-President of Toledo-based Technology Group International (www.tgiltd.com), Enterprise 21’s focus on food and beverage ERP software functionality allows customers like H.R. Nicholson and Green Bay Cheese significant vertical advantages. The enterprise resource planning package gives this vertical market a solid basis, and “companies like Green Bay Cheese are able to address their requirements and more.” Specifically the cheese manufacturer is now 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

• Automatically generate customer-specific labels which included not only customer logos and barcodes, but also the retail customer’s price to the consumer

The current issue of Food Engineering provides a brief profile on how Technology Group International has provided compliance requirements for these companies. Food Engineering targets the manufacturing operations within the food and beverage process industry which consists of: headquarters, R&D, distribution or sales office of a food or beverage manufacturer, co-packer, co-manufacturer of a food or beverage product; meat, poultry, seafood products; dairy products, fruits and vegetables; grain products, bakery products, sugar and confectionary products; fats and oils; beverages; miscellaneous food products; chemicals and food ingredient products; machinery and equipment for food processing and packaging; engineering; architectural, surveying and design, construction services.

Founded in 1990 and headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, Technology Group International is a proven technology leader delivering Tier 1 application software functionality at a price performance level that can be readily accepted by organizations of all sizes. Specializing in software solutions for small and mid-market manufacturing and distribution companies, TGI’s integrated Enterprise Series software suite is a complete business process management solution. The product offering includes Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP), Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Warehouse Management System (WMS), Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS), Decision Support System (DSS), Business Intelligence (BI), Manufacturing Execution System (MES), and eCommerce. TGI implements, maintains, enhances, and supports its packaged distribution and manufacturing software solutions directly and via its channel partners.