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Wayne Slater

For more than 20 years, Wayne has been helping organizations solve their product and business growth challenges. He has a proven track record increasing awareness, driving engagement and creating revenue in multiple industries. Wayne's 2014 book, "Food Traceability for Dummies" is a must read for anyone needing a primer on how to research, prepare and profit from food traceability.

Posts by Wayne Slater

ERP for Manufacturing

The Right ERP System Delivers Complete Traceability

As far as food recalls go, what a busy year it has been. In North America, the food and beverage …

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ERP for ManufacturingERP for Food and Beverage Industry

Why a Best of Breed ERP Solution Makes Sense for the Food and Beverage Industry

The food and beverage industry, much like any other industry, is filled with challenges: maintaining a reliable and high performing …

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Managing-Operating ERPSelecting ERP

Why you Should Choose a Two Tier ERP Solution

Dean knew that there had to be a better way. He’d been in manufacturing long enough to know that the …

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Planning-Purchasing-Implementing ERPCloud computing

Business Manager’s Guide to Software Infrastructure

Choosing the type of software infrastructure that you want any enterprise software system to run on is an important early …

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ERP for Distribution

How Widespread RFID Adoption Would Change Distribution Businesses

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) works a lot like barcodes letting you scan products, or anything else you put a barcode …

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Managing-Operating ERP

RFID vs Barcodes

Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, has been the next-generation technology to replace barcodes for some time. While RFID hasn’t come …

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ERP for Manufacturing

Santa’s ERP System

I’ve been in the ERP business for a while now and have helped all sorts of organizations with their systems from …

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Planning-Purchasing-Implementing ERPERP systems

Is ERP an Expense, or an Investment

Having been in the IT industry long enough to remember when the idea of “ERP” first started making the rounds, I …

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Supply Chain Management and ERPTechnology (or Enterprise Technology)

What Corn Tells Us About How Innovation Spreads Through an Industry

Farming corn (or maize) seems simple, but it isn’t, and it is the business of farming corn that is so …

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