The 2012 FL100

By Editorial Staff
Created: December 17, 2012

Software and technology providers whose products and services are crucial to the global food supply chain.

Worth noting: Intermec is a workflow performance company that designs the leading data capture and information management solutions at the interface between mobile workers, assets, and customers around the globe. Intermec customers benefit from the industry’s most proven and diverse portfolio of rugged mobile solutions, which are developed with the sole purpose to improve business processes and drive maximum ROI. This provides customers with a long-term solution to meet future demands.

John Galt Solutions, Chicago, IL

Web site: www.johngalt.com

Year founded: 1996

Number of employees: 40

Number of food customers: 450

Solution name(s): Forecast Xpert Toolkit Atlas Planning Suite

Worth noting: Our event management capabilities allow foodservice and other CPG clients to plan promotions effectively. Our software can calculate how effective a promotional strategy is and translate that into profitability and margin numbers. Our flexible reporting also gives planning teams and executives the ability to manage their demand and supply plans from any angle.

Junction Solutions, Englewood, CO

Web site: www.junctionsolutions.com

Year founded: 2002

Number of employees: 210

Number of food customers: 52

Solution name(s): JunctionFB

Worth noting: Junction Solutions offers an advanced traceability product called CLEARthru, which is a mobile application that gives consumers a picture of the path their food takes on its way to the grocery store, from the plant or farm of origin to every processing or packing facility along the way. The mobile application gives consumers access to information previously confined to an ERP system such as origin of product, product freshness, packaging information, nutrition and allergen facts and food recall information.

JustFoodERP, Allentown, PA

Web site: www.justfooderp.com

Year founded: 1999

Number of employees: 75

Number of food customers: 100

Solution name(s): JustFoodERP

Worth noting: JustFoodERP serves the food industry, and only food—no other sectors of process manufacturing. Our software is built by food industry experts and features a huge range of food industry specific functionality, all built on Microsoft Dynamics technology to take advantage of their ERP investment and most importantly, to allow for easy software upgrades.

KNAPP Logistics Automation, Kennesaw, GA

Web site: www.knapp.com

Year founded: 1952

Number of employees: 2,100

Number of food customers: 45

Solution name(s): KiSoft Beverage Solutions, KiSoft AUTOMOVE, KiSoft RMS (Reusables Management), KiSoft WMS, KiSoft Pick-it-Easy, OSR Shuttle

Worth noting: With the various challenges in food distributions, KNAPP offers automation only where it makes sense, in order to stay flexible and prepared for further change and growth. Therefore, a broad range of customizable solutions are available for the clients.

LANSA, Downers Grove, IL

Web site: www.datasyncdirect.com

Year founded: 1987

Number of employees: 225

Number of food customers: 330

Solution name(s): LANSA Data Sync Direct

Worth noting: LANSA is a leader in the data synchronization and is fully certified by 1WorldSync and numerous other GDSN data pools for both supply- and demand-side, and has extensive direct integration experience with major ERPs (including SAP, JD Edwards, BPCS, Aldata, Retek and many others).

LeanLogistics, Holland, MI

Web site: www.leanlogistics.com

Year founded: 1999

Number of employees: N/A

Number of food customers: N/A

Solution name(s): On-Demand TMS, LeanSource, LeanDex, LeanAppoint

Worth noting: LeanLogistics creates solutions that are customized to a client’s needs in order to actualize their goals. Solutions are balanced and incorporate technology supported by services, both of which are profiled and customized to clients’ specific needs. We are the industry leader in developing transportation best practices and then providing application transfers between clients so that all may profit from this shared knowledge base through the industry’s largest true SaaS network.

Locus Traxx, Jupiter, FL

Web site: www.locustraxx.com

Year founded: 2005