Computer Software

Data Specialists Inc.

Data Specialists introduces Dairy & Food Tracker in the Cloud Software as a Service
Contact: Vernon Spaulding, Data Specialists Inc., 1021 Proctor Drive, Elkhorn, WI, 53121, 262-723-5726
Website: www.dataspecialists.com

Data Specialists Inc. (DSI) has launched the Dairy & Food Tracker in the Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) version of its dairy and food procurement enterprise resource planning (ERP)business software suites.

According to DSI, this will reduce manufacturers/distributors initial costs, minimize information technology (IT) overhead costs and improve system performance and total cost of ownership.

The new software subscription is delivered, managed, monitored and maintained by DSI IT professionals based out of the company’s headquarters in Elkhorn, Wis.

DSI notes that the option will allow users to license on a subscription basis. Fees will include software phone support, software enhancements and DSI server hardware system management.

In addition, the option will allow small-, medium- and large-sized dairy and food manufacturers/distributors access to order management, distribution, liquid procurement, inventory, production reporting and financials at a low upfront cost as there are no servers to purchase.

DSI will continue to offer the traditional customer “in-house” solutions with a full complement of IT services for manufacturers/distributors who prefer to manage their own server hardware and ERP business software solutions.

Data Specialists Inc.

Contact: Vernon Spaulding, Data Specialists Inc., 1021 Proctor Drive, Elkhorn, WI, 53121, 262-723-5726
Website: www.dataspecialists.com
Data Specialists Inc. (DSI) now is offering several new services including the Dairy Tracker II Barcode System inventory management for dairy and food products.

The complete software- and hardware-based system communicates finished goods pallet level production data wirelessly to DSI’s inventory business software module as part of the company’s Dairy & Food Tracker business software suite.

The finished goods pallet barcode label relieves raw materials and ingredients from inventory based on pre-defined batch/vat production formulas. It also allows for the inclusion of information such as date, time, production lot code, product name and SKU number, and company name for each pallet.

DSI also has released its Farm to Retail Distributor GS1 compliant lot traceability solution as part of its Dairy & Food Tracker business software suite. DSI’s solution tracks finished dairy products back to the farm that produced the milk that went into making these products.

DSI’s Dairy Liquid Inventory management software module allows for the tracking of any dairy liquid through a dairy plant from intake through separation and standardization to the batch tank or vats via automatic data exchange with plant floor and human machine interface (HMI) systems.

Finished goods inventory and shipments are tracked either via manual order picking or automatically using DSI’s Dairy Tracker II Barcode Inventory Management system.

Additional new releases include DSI’s new actual dairy costing business software module. The module allows for true product costing at the dairy liquid component level without having to create separate item numbers for each component including butterfat, protein and lactose. Company officials note this means each production vat/batch can be uniquely evaluated for all materials, labor, burden and overhead component values.

The True Dairy Costing Module complements DSI’s Dairy & Food Tracker product line and also can be used as a plug-in to other existing business software packages that support Microsoft’s SQL Server data platform.

ESE Inc.

Contact: Kevin Nowack, director of sales operations, ESE Inc., 3600 Downwind Drive, Marshfield, WI, 54449, 800-236-4778 ext. 224, 715-387-0125, e-mail: nowackk@ese1.com
Website: www.ese1.com

ESE Inc.’s process control solutions have expanded from the sanitary production environment to the office environment with advancements of its ESE Report Optimizer solutions. The optimizer collects processing information and distributes data to multiple audiences including production supervisors, lab supervisors and plant managers.

Existing off-line scheduling tools and make sheets now can be fully integrated with the control system to allow seamless data integrity from the process floor to the front office, company officials say, noting information can be sent automatically to a file or via e-mail based on event or time of day triggers.

ESE’s reporting capabilities can be applied from simplistic batch reporting applications to more complex material tracking applications.