The recent surge in demand for energy, labor and transport has placed significant pressures on just-in-time ordering, cross-border supply chains that keep factories open and shelves stocked. With supply chain problems set to continue, a key focus for food businesses will be tightening their operations, including manufacturing.
Some ways this can be accomplished include:
1. Being flexible with sourcing and distribution strategies
2. Modernizing manufacturing operations (think along the lines of a smart, connected factory, access to real-time data and full visibility)
3. Widening the use of automation
Speaker information:
David Vitak, Senior Solution Architect at Columbus
With over 30 years of extensive ERP consulting and business experience, David is one of the most highly sought after solutions consultants in the Microsoft Dynamics world. He has played an integral part in more than 50 customer implementations in roles ranging from presales, system design and product configuration to managing overall implementations on 100+ user systems. David is a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Solutions Architect and has extensive knowledge in retail POS and backoffice, finance, manufacturing and supply chain management.
Blake Harris, Technical Director at IFT
Blake Harris is the Technical Director at IFT’s Global Food Traceability Center and has over a decade of experience in supply chain related functions. Blake specializes in standards and process improvement, digital solution development and implementation, and values working through complicated problems to develop effective and simple solutions. In his role at IFT, he is focused on improving the digitization of data in food systems and has experience working with stakeholders from across the supply chain and across the globe.
The recent surge in demand for energy, labor and transport has placed significant pressures on just-in-time ordering, cross-border supply chains that keep factories open and shelves stocked. With supply chain problems set to continue, a key focus for food businesses will be tightening their operations, including manufacturing.
Some ways this can be accomplished include:
1. Being flexible with sourcing and distribution strategies
2. Modernizing manufacturing operations (think along the lines of a smart, connected factory, access to real-time data and full visibility)
3. Widening the use of automation
Speaker information:
David Vitak, Senior Solution Architect at Columbus
With over 30 years of extensive ERP consulting and business experience, David is one of the most highly sought after solutions consultants in the Microsoft Dynamics world. He has played an integral part in more than 50 customer implementations in roles ranging from presales, system design and product configuration to managing overall implementations on 100+ user systems. David is a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Solutions Architect and has extensive knowledge in retail POS and backoffice, finance, manufacturing and supply chain management.
Blake Harris, Technical Director at IFT
Blake Harris is the Technical Director at IFT’s Global Food Traceability Center and has over a decade of experience in supply chain related functions. Blake specializes in standards and process improvement, digital solution development and implementation, and values working through complicated problems to develop effective and simple solutions. In his role at IFT, he is focused on improving the digitization of data in food systems and has experience working with stakeholders from across the supply chain and across the globe.
