Produce Inventory Control System Blog

The Grower’s Greenhouse Innovations

WaudWare introduced PICS in a Box and customer Duffy Kniaziew of Orangeline Farms says, “we now have comprehensive reports on everything from production to packing, packaging to sales. As the greenhouse industry matures, we are seeking points of differentiation and this program helps to sharpen our focus.” PICS in a Box is a pre-configured Windows … Read more

Self-Management: The Other Half of Self-Awareness

“Everyone says self-awareness is essential to effective leadership. It is, but there is another aspect to awareness that may be equally compelling and sadly overlooked. It’s self-management.” That’s what John Baldoni, chair of leadership development at N2Growth says. John is an internationally recognized leadership educator and executive coach. “It’s one thing to know yourself. We … Read more

Updates to Software for the Produce Industry

Last month, we continued our efforts to offer the best software solutions for the fresh produce industry, namely, Produce Inventory Control System (PICS) software and the web-based version (WebPICS). Here are the software updates and productivity improvements we made during October. How often is your software solution for inventory, accounting, and traceability upgraded? If you … Read more

Happy Snaps Make For Happy Snaps!

The 2015 WaudWare Invitational Golf Tournament in support of the Brampton and Caledon Community Foundation may be over, but you can still reminisce about the great time you had by previewing the happy snaps video. You’ll be tapping your feet, snapping your fingers, and probably doing a little disco at the same time. Those were … Read more

Small Business: Build Teams and Have Fun!

Mike from crowdSPRING wants to know, “Who says business can’t be fun? Leadership is not just about productivity, strategy, and tactics – much more important is the fact that great leadership is about people. Strong leaders never lose sight of the individuals who make up their team and never stop working to make the team stronger. … Read more

In Appreciation Of Our Sponsors and Supporters…

Thank you to all the 2015 WaudWare Invitational Golf Tournament Sponsors and Supporters. We are very appreciative of your support! Stanley Cup North American Produce Buyers Hart Trophy The Art of Marketing Inc. Vezina Trophy CCV Insurance & Financial The Marketing Pad Meri-Mac Ltd. SNAPd Brampton Norris Trophy CCP Partners LLP CIM Solutions Calder Trophy … Read more

Produce Inventory Control System (PICS) Software Updates for September

The technical team at WaudWare has made these updates to PICS software, written specifically for produce businesses that want to track and count their products with one system. This month in PICS we… Enhanced the GL Transaction screen today such that the Find function works for all the fields in the header. Note that if … Read more

Joint CPMA-CHC Webinar – Produce Industry Federal Election Primer

Government Relations/Advocacy CPMA provides a forum for both industry members and government to dialogue on a wide range of issues and initiatives which may affect the distribution of fresh fruits and vegetables, including trade facilitation and standardization. CPMA places a strong emphasis on federal and provincial government advocacy on behalf of its members, and the … Read more

What’s New With Growing Forward 2?

The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs “Growing Forward 2” (GF2) program is a project-based cost-share funding assistance program that helps agri-food businesses grow profits, expand markets and manage risks. Individual businesses may be eligible to receive up to $350,000 over the life of the program. Applications can be submitted from November 16, … Read more

University of Guelph Co-op Programs

On August 7th, The Ontario Produce Marketing Association released a survey to its members to gauge the interest level of a Co-op Program for the Bachelor of Science in Agriculture program at the University of Guelph. Here is the back story: The University of Guelph has been delivering co-operative education programs for over 30 years. … Read more

WaudWare Introduces PICS in a Box!

Looking for inventory and traceability control in one software package? Need to replace your old hardware or update your operating system (because Microsoft discontinued support for Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server)? Talk to us about PICS in a Box! PICS in a Box is a pre-configured Windows 2008-32 Bit virtual server image with Produce … Read more

August Updates for Produce Inventory Control System (PICS) Software.

In addition to PICS in a Box*, the WaudWare Support Team made these updates to our inventory, buying and selling, production, growing, brokerage, accounting, security and management information software, known as Produce Inventory Control System (PICS). Specifically written for the fruit and vegetable industry, PICS includes traceability functions, critical for fresh produce businesses today. We … Read more

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