Our continued commitment to providing the best software solution for the produce industry is illustrated with the productivity improvements we made during December. How often is your software solution for inventory, accounting, and traceability upgraded? If you can’t say “all the time” you’re not using Produce Inventory Control System (PICS) software by WaudWare. We have:
- According to the FDA, in the final regulations of the new Food Safety Act, importers of food into the USA have to have their suppliers approved by a certified third party/auditor. The third party/auditor will need to conduct food safety audits and issue certifications regarding the foreign facilities and the foods they produce.In our Produce Inventory Control System (PICS) software, we have a feature that will help you track these certifications. This feature is the Vendor’s approval certificate. This will help you keep track of your vendor certification documents. We can activate that feature for you and show you how to use it if you wish.This feature will help you maintain records of certification of your vendors, and can be set to warn you when you issue a Purchase Order to a vendor for which you do not have an Approval Document on file. This will help make it easier for you to conduct your business and keep up with the new food regulation requirements, if your vendors are certified.
- Added PRE to PICS Security in December 2014. You can grant/revoke the ability to call up PRE from PICS like other parts of PICS. Note that if your PICS Build is from 2014 or earlier, you’ll need a new build to take advantage of this new security feature. The user’s PICS.INI file also needs to be configured to allow them to run PRE (this hasn’t changed).
- Enhanced the routine which creates Work Orders from the Purchase Order and/or Production Board screens. It will now use the “Create Output Lot Numbers on Adding a Work Order” system control. If you want lot numbers created for every output on a Work Order when the work order is created (usually for printing labels), you can enable this system control.
- Added a notes button to the GL Year screen, so you can record things which need to be kept track of when you do year end and other functions.
- Added a vendor link to the purchase order screen; a vendor link and a GL Account link to the AP voucher screen; stock and lot links to the production, production posting, grower work order and grower work order posting screens.
- Added code to the AP Voucher screen to only allow partial editing of the voucher if the GL Period it is in is not closed.
- Added Load Comments to the list of fields which can be printed on the Load Receiving Report.
