The 2012 FL100
Software and technology providers whose products and services are crucial to the global food supply chain.
CSi Industries, Raamsdonksveer, Netherlands
Web site: www.csiportal.com
Year founded: 1964
Number of employees: 460
Number of food customers: 100
Solution name(s): Material handling solutions with focus on palletizing
Worth noting: CSi Industries supplies the whole range of end-of-line high quality solutions along with a unique price/performance ratio.
Dade Service, Daytona Beach, FL
Web site: www.dadeservice.com
Year founded: 1954
Number of employees: 20
Number of food customers: 100
Solution name(s): DASERCO Brand Ripening Controls
Worth noting: Our solutions are designed to interface with our Ripening Room and Cold Storage Construction Projects. They offer customized touch screen control to all set-points available in the project. Our supervisory system allows these set-points to be changed at all times via remote access to facility, even from one’s own computer. This ensures the right personnel have access at all times to the facilities’ cold chains settings and readings.
Daifuku Webb, Farmington Hills, MI
Web site: www.daifukuwebb.com
Year founded: 1919
Number of employees: 900
Number of food customers: 300
Solution name(s): Automated Storage & Retrieval System, Automatic Guided Vehicles, DUOSYS, SmartCart, SmartLoader, conveyors, sorting systems, picking systems and warehouse software
Worth noting: We are the largest material handling company in the world and provide a number of products for the food and beverage industry. Our most recent product, DUOSYS, is a super-fast mini load AS/RS that acts as a highly efficient sortation system. It allows multiple cranes to pass each other, increasing throughput up to 2,200 cases per hour.
Dairy.com, Frisco, TX
Web site: www.dairy.com
Year founded: 2000
Number of employees: 54
Number of food customers: 200
Solution name(s): Milk Solutions, Commodities Trading Exchange, and Transportation Market
Worth noting: Dairy.com is the premier Software-as-a-Service technology provider to the dairy industry. In lieu of customers purchasing expensive servers, Dairy.com offers hosted supply chain solutions to the nation’s dairy industry and their supply chain management, and transportation management solutions are available anywhere you can access the Internet.
Datex, Clearwater, FL
Web site: www.datexcorp.com
Year founded: 1978
Number of employees: 85
Number of food customers: 50
Solution name(s): Datex FootPrint WMS
Worth noting: Datex FootPrint WMS is a highly flexible, scalable solution that enables companies to configure business processes without relying on costly changes to static hard coding. Datex FootPrint WMS provides full track and trace by lot, vendor code, UPC, SKU or ingredient. Quarterly upgrades are included free with support and maintenance agreements to ensure that our clients always have state-of-the-art technology to power operations and remain competitive.
Demand Solutions, St. Louis, MO
Web site: www.demandsolutions.com
Year founded: 1985
Number of employees: 100
Number of food customers: 33
Solution name(s): Forecast Management, Requirements Planning, Sales & Operations Planning, Retail Planning, Advanced Planning & Scheduling, Collaboration
Worth noting: Demand Solutions provides software to companies worldwide for the full spectrum of supply chain management, inventory planning, sales & operations planning (S&OP), demand planning and forecasting, collaboration, inventory optimization and replenishment, advanced planning & scheduling and retail planning. Our products are affordable, easy to implement, easy to use and deliver fast ROI.
DEMATIC, Grand Rapids, MI
Web site: www.dematic.us
Year founded: 1939
Number of employees: 4,000
Number of food customers: 100
Solution name(s): Receiving to Shipping Solutions
Worth noting: Dematic offers a holistic engineering approach, which drives the development of non-biased, data driven logistics solutions that optimize the user’s supply chain. System configurations may be manually operated, mechanized or automated. Dematic is dedicated to improving logistics results.
