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Canadian Border Services Agency Approves Best Practices for Produce Examinations

Distributed by The Ontario Produce Marketing Association As a result of ongoing concerns brought forward by the produce industry regarding damage to produce during inspections and off-loading at Canadian border crossings, a working group was established to investigate the process at the border.  As a result, a best practices document was developed for both industry … Read more

Featuring Vegetables From The Garden Eden

We’re pleased to welcome Eden Valley Growers, Inc. of Eden, New York to the WaudWare family of Produce Inventory Control System (PICS) software and VPICS (touch screen) customers. Eden Valley Growers, Inc. established in 1956, is a vegetable growing farm cooperative that recently celebrated its 50th anniversary, consisting of ten members, most of whom are … Read more

Lessons in Love: Cristina’s Tortina Shop Brampton

Cristina’s Tortina Shop is no ordinary bakery. Aside from cupcakes, specialty cakes and cookies, Cristina’s offers huge quantities of love and unique employment opportunities for people with down syndrome, autism and other special needs. Mompreneur, Mary Iusso, opened Cristina’s Tortina Shop last December in Brampton to honour her 4 year old daughter Cristina. Read the … Read more

No Reservations? No Problem!

Produce Inventory Control System (PICS) Software has a new feature! We enhanced the Stock Items screen and Stock Lot screen to [hide] not show the Qty Reserved field if reservations are not being used in the system.

New Inventory Assets Accounts

We have added Inventory Asset accounts to the List of Accounts in Produce Inventory Control System (PICS) software, which are covered by the “Allow posting to Control Accounts” System Control. It’s easier than ever to manage your fresh produce industry business. Do you have a suggestion for a PICS enhancement that will improve your Produce … Read more

Better Ticket Printing in PICS

Your WaudWare team of software development experts for the fresh produce industry recently enhanced the Picking Ticket printing in Produce Inventory Control System (PICS) software to allow printing of all the information about items substituted if substitution is enabled in the system.

Stock Quantities List Popup Enhancement

We have enhanced the popup Stock Quantities list in our Produce Inventory Control System (PICS) software to show all the same quantities as the Stock Items screen does. No one does it better than all Canadian WaudWare and PICS for the fresh produce industry. For traceability, productivity, performance and profitability.

General Ledger Cross Reference Screen Enhanced in PICS

The General Ledger (GL) Cross Reference Screen has been enhanced in our Produce Inventory Control System (PICS) software to allow setup of all the information needed by the new Inventory Valuation system. This is a great productivity improvement for businesses in the fresh produce industry.

Is There a Simple Solution to the Milestone 7 Problem?

PTI Milestones include assigning GTIN numbers, providing GTIN information to buyers, showing human readable information on cases, encoding information in a barcode, reading/storing information on inbound cases, and reading/storing information on outbound bases. This last step is PTI Milestone 7. Large distribution centres may be challenged to scan each barcode label on each inbound and/or … Read more

Scam Alert!

Beware of this recent scam! Should you receive an email saying there’s a voice mail message waiting for you, and you can play it by clicking on the attachment – DON’T CLICK. This is a scam. If you open the voicemail.zip attachment you run the risk of installing software that will cause harm, spy on you, … Read more

Vendor Stock Table Improvements

Produce Inventory Control System software now included an added default label, vendor gtin and default qty on SU to the Vendor Stock table. These can now be set up and then brought forward when entering purchase order lines in PICS. Complete traceability software, productivity and profitability improvements, from the experts in innovation… WaudWare! Contact us … Read more

New Security Measures in Produce Inventory Control System (PICS) Software

Produce Inventory Control System (PICS) software for the fresh produce industry now includes enhancements to Purchase Order screens such that if the user doesn’t have security to see cost, the actual cost fields and the charges buttons will not be shown. There are lots of security measures built in to our PICS software system. When … Read more

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