[singlepic id=6 w=320 h=240 float=right]Dean Foods Corporation, based in Dallas, Texas, is the largest dairy processor in the United States. Dean Foods produces a full line of company-branded and customer-branded products in the United States, Puerto Rico, Spain, and England including fl uid milk, cottage cheese, sour cream, yogurt, ice cream, fruit juices, and frozen novelties. The autumn of 2000 found Dean Foods’ Southwest Region seeking an automated fax and forms solution with the muscle to handle a weekly workload of 100 invoices, 200 sales order acknowledgements, and 30 purchase orders being produced by their JD Edwards World software. Their IT environment ...
» continue reading[singlepic id=5 w=320 h=240 float=right]Founded in 1948, Caplugs recently celebrated its 50th anniversary in the manufacture of premium protection products including caps, plugs, edge liners, wraparound tapes and nettings used in a wide range of industrial applications around the world. From their beginning in the injection molding business, Caplugs assumed a leadership position in customer service, value, and product variety. Of course, variety creates a challenge when it comes to coordinating the sale, shipment, and finances for over 3,500 standard catalog items and a warehouse that stores over 165,000,000 parts. Management of this operation occurs on a proprietary ERP system operating on ...
» continue reading[singlepic id=3 w=320 h=240 float=right]Established in 1947, Bagcraft - a division of Packaging Dynamics (PKDY) - has been a leading force in the field of foodservice packaging and carryout wrapping. Headquartered in Chicago, IL, PKDY maintains four operating companies, including manufacturing and paper mill facilities, in locations like Baxter Springs, KS, and Detroit, MI, to name a few. To run the operation, PKDY utilizes PRMS 8.4 on the System i (iSeries 400 or AS/400) with over 500 users. According to Tina Colon, PKDY's Manager of Systems and Programming, up until two years ago the company’s document handling procedures didn’t quite keep ...
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