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Identifying Your Food Business’s Key Money Makers

Identifying Your Food Business’s Key Money Makers

Identifying Your Food Business’s Key Money Makers With the Help of Your ERP System Across the food industry, margins are being squeezed and those within the supply chain are feeling the brunt of the impact. Food producers dealing with tight margins isn’t a new...

NorthScope 2023 Q4 In Review

NorthScope 2023 Q4 In Review

NorthScope 2023 Q4 In Review 2023 Fourth Quarter New Features & Improvements Costing New Features Added Costing to NorthScope – Feature Spotlight! For Items that have a costing method of “Active” we will automatically post to the...

Vendor Management

Vendor Management

Why Your Food Company Can’t Rely on Your Vendor’s Systems And How to Know More About Their Business Than They DoNo one knows your business, or your customers, better than you do; so why would you rely on your vendors to determine the best product for you to procure...

How to Streamline Food Costing with ERP Software

How to Streamline Food Costing with ERP Software

How to Streamline Food Costing with ERP SoftwareBetween the ever-fluctuating economy, supply chain challenges, managing vendor relations, analyzing your business, the rising costs you face, and more, costing can be daunting. It can be seemingly impossible to identify...

How to Stay Compliant with FSMA Traceability Requirements

How to Stay Compliant with FSMA Traceability Requirements

How to Stay Compliant with FSMA Traceability Requirements As a food company, you’re likely very familiar with The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Signed into law in 2011, its purpose is to shift the focus of the nation’s food safety system “from responding to...

NorthScope Q2 In Review

NorthScope Q2 In Review

NorthScope 2023 Q2 In Review 2023 Second Quarter New Features & ImprovementsFinancial New Features Budgeting Have GL Budgets? Of course you do. Want to manage them in NorthScope? Of course you do. Want a box of donuts for breakfast...

Food Processing Headlines We’ve Been Reading Lately

Food Processing Headlines We’ve Been Reading Lately

Food Processing Headlines We've Been Reading LatelySeafood Processing “OPINION: The Seafood Industry Benefits All Alaskans” “Walmart, Sam’s Club strengthen tuna-sourcing requirements” “US southern Atlantic coast shrimpers hope late season will mean fatter shrimp,...

Food ERP Roundup: Happy Customer Experiences with NorthScope

Food ERP Roundup: Happy Customer Experiences with NorthScope

Food ERP Roundup: Happy Customer Experiences with NorthScopeIf you've had the all too common experience of enterprise resource planning (ERP) providers claiming they can support your food business only to result in wasted money and time, you're not alone. Many of our...

NorthScope 2023 Q1 In Review

NorthScope 2023 Q1 In Review

NorthScope 2023 Q1 In Review 2023 First Quarter New Features & ImprovementsCompany List View & Inquiry Improvements File Import Updates We implemented an entirely new file import feature for GL Journal Entries and added the GL...

UNISEA CHOOSES NORTHSCOPE AS ITS ERP SOFTWARE SOLUTION

UNISEA CHOOSES NORTHSCOPE AS ITS ERP SOFTWARE SOLUTION

UniSea Chooses NorthScope As Its ERP Software SolutionMill Creek, WA: Looking for an upgrade to replace its various unsupported systems, UniSea has partnered with NorthScope to implement its ERP solution. The implementation of...

Food Manufacturing & The Economy

Food Manufacturing & The Economy

Food Manufacturing & The Economy The past three years have been less than predictable, rife with change and uncertainty. Through the ups and downs, prices have seemed to see more up than down as of late. However, just as gas...

NorthScope 2022 Q4 In Review

NorthScope 2022 Q4 In Review

NorthScope 2022 Q4 In Review 2022 Fourth Quarter New Features & ImprovementsFinancial List View & Inquiry Improvements Checkbooks List View Updates We converted the Checkbooks List View to the 3.0 Framework and added a Delete...

3 Tools Fruit, Vegetable and Nut Processors Need to Succeed

3 Tools Fruit, Vegetable and Nut Processors Need to Succeed

3 Tools Fruit, Vegetable and Nut Processors Need to Succeed ​ It's easy to recognize a need that’s tangible – like the need for processing equipment in order to process fruits, vegetables and nuts – go figure! But, beyond the obvious,...

2023 Food Trends

2023 Food Trends

2023 Food Trends ​With 2023 quickly approaching, a new year brings new opportunities. For food manufacturers, opportunity often presents itself in the form of demand – so how do you meet the demand with your supply for the coming year?...

NorthScope Mobile

NorthScope Mobile

NorthScope Mobile Delivers Key Information and Accessibility to Food Manufacturers at their Fingertips ​ Banking, communicating, shopping, scheduling – the world has gone mobile and seemingly everything is available at your fingertips...

3 Tools Seafood Processors Need to Succeed

3 Tools Seafood Processors Need to Succeed

3 Tools Seafood Processors Need to Succeed ​It's easy to recognize a need that’s tangible – like the need for processing equipment in order to process seafood – go figure! But, beyond the obvious, it can be challenging to identify what...

NorthScope Q3 2022 In Review

NorthScope Q3 2022 In Review

NorthScope 2022 Q3 In Review 2022 Third Quarter New Features & Improvements Company List View Improvements Address Updates We updated the Addresses List View so that you can enter a text value in the Country column when in Edit...

NorthScope: An Integrated Solution for Food Manufacturers

NorthScope: An Integrated Solution for Food Manufacturers

NorthScope: An Integrated Solution for Food ManufacturersGeneric ERP software doesn’t understand your unique needs as a food manufacturer (that’s why it’s generic *ahem*). But, that doesn’t mean your only alternative is completely...

How NorthScope Helps You Grow While Managing Growers

How NorthScope Helps You Grow While Managing Growers

How NorthScope Helps You Grow While Managing Growers If you process fruits, vegetables and/or nuts, you know the importance of maintaining a mutually beneficial relationship with your growers/farmers – you get quality product and your...

NorthScope Q1 & Q2 In Review

NorthScope Q1 & Q2 In Review

NorthScope 2022 Q1 & Q2 In Review 2022 First& Second Quarter New Features & Improvements Financial Validation Improvements Posting Type Updates We added validations preventing the Posting Type from being changed for a GL...

NorthScope 2021 Q4 In Review

NorthScope 2021 Q4 In Review

NorthScope 2021 Q4 In Review 2021 Fourth Quarter New Features & ImprovementsFisherman Accounting Transaction Improvements Split Ticket Updates If you wanted to split a ticket 50/50, no problem, if you wanted to split it 25/75 that...

Selling Available Items

Selling Available Items

Selling Available Items with NorthScope Food ERP Software NorthScope understands all orders are different, that’s why it offers several modes for order entry and sometimes you need to add available items to an order while someone else...

Selling Make-To-Order Items

Selling Make-To-Order Items

Selling Make-To-Order Items with NorthScope Food ERP SoftwareNorthScope understands all orders are different, that’s why it offers several modes for order entry and sometimes you just need to enter orders for items that have yet to be...

Selling & Allocating in One Step

Selling & Allocating in One Step

Selling & Allocating in One Step with NorthScope Food ERP SoftwareNorthScope understands all orders are different, that’s why it offers several modes for order entry. Sometimes orders may be for items that must be produced, other...

NorthScope 2021 Q3 In Review

NorthScope 2021 Q3 In Review

NorthScope 2021 Q3 In Review 2021 Third Quarter New Features & ImprovementsCompany Attribute Improvements Sales Order Attribute Updates We renamed some Attribute Transaction Types for Quick Sales to be clearer and removed one...

NorthScope 2021 Q2 In Review

NorthScope 2021 Q2 In Review

NorthScope 2021 Q2 In Review 2021 Second Quarter New Features & ImprovementsFinancial Reports & Inquires Improvements Inquiry Updates We made improvements to the GL Account Balances, the GL Account Balances by Period and the...

How More Data Means More Money for Your Food Business

How More Data Means More Money for Your Food Business

How More Data Means More Money for Your Food Business ​To make informed decisions for your business, you need information. That’s where data comes in. But, it’s more nuanced than that – you need the right data. What does that mean for...

NorthScope 2021 Q1 In Review

NorthScope 2021 Q1 In Review

NorthScope 2021 Q1 In Review 2021 First Quarter New Features & ImprovementsFinancial Non-Monetary Data Improvements Statistical Accounts It’s our passion to give you the most useful functionality to better assist your needs, which...

Alaska Seafood Processing Top Needs & Pain Points

Alaska Seafood Processing Top Needs & Pain Points

Alaska Seafood Processing Top Needs & Pain Points & How NorthScope Can HelpNavigating the waters of the Alaska Seafood industry can be rough (all puns intended), but especially after as unpredictable of a year as 2020 was....

2021 Food Industry Trends

2021 Food Industry Trends

2021 Food Industry Trends Each year, predictions are made regarding what to expect out of the food industry over the next twelve months or so – trends, changes, lasting behaviors from the year before, etc. 2020 was no different in...

Post-COVID Food Manufacturing Landscape

Post-COVID Food Manufacturing Landscape

​The Post-COVID Food Manufacturing Landscape And How Software Can HelpWhile no one can predict when life will seemingly go back to “normal,” it’s clear that the post-COVID food industry landscape will adopt a new “normal” as certain...

Complete Inventory Visibility & Control

Complete Inventory Visibility & Control

Complete Inventory Visibility & Control with NorthScope Food ERP Whether you are trying to track down specific products or specific quantities for an interested customer, managing the balances of your global inventory or...

Fish Ticket Price Lists

Fish Ticket Price Lists

NorthScope's Alaska Fish Ticket Price Lists When buying fish from fishermen, it’s important that prices are accurate for every Fish Ticket item. And when you have a lot of items on a Fish Ticket, cross-referencing spreadsheets and...

Fish Tickets with eLandings Integration

Fish Tickets with eLandings Integration

NorthScope's Alaska Fish Tickets with eLandings IntegrationInstead of re-entering your Fish Tickets from eLandings into additional systems, wouldn’t it be nice if you could import them at the touch of a button?  With NorthScope, you...

Our Food ERP Solution vs. Their ERP “Solution”

Our Food ERP Solution vs. Their ERP “Solution”

Our Food ERP Solution vs. Their ERP "Solution" Don't choose a "solution" that doesn't really solve your problems... ​You can’t compare generic business software to NorthScope. But if you really wanted to… Business software, especially...

QuickBooks Money Wasters

QuickBooks Money Wasters

How the ROI of QuickBooks Compares to Industry-Specific Software for Your Food Business QuickBooks’ Money Wasters You May Have MissedWhen it comes to your business software for your food business, you most likely take into...

How to Reduce Your Alaska Seafood Manual Data Entry

How to Reduce Your Alaska Seafood Manual Data Entry

How To Reduce Your Alaska Seafood Business’s Manual Data Entry (AKA: Stress) By 49% Or More While Increasing Accuracy, Visibility And Time In Your DayIf you’re an Alaska Seafood Processor that’s juggling multiple systems to manage your...

What’s the ROI of Alaska Seafood Specific ERP Software?

What’s the ROI of Alaska Seafood Specific ERP Software?

What’s the ROI of Alaska Seafood Specific ERP Software?Successfully running a business isn’t one size fits all – and neither is business software. Running an Alaska Seafood Processing business is vastly different than running a...

Food ERP vs. Seafood ERP Software: What’s the Difference?

Food ERP vs. Seafood ERP Software: What’s the Difference?

Food ERP vs. Seafood ERP Software: What’s the Difference?When you’re on the hunt for software that will help your Alaska Seafood business grow and succeed, the first step is knowing what type of software you need. That can seem...

What Seafood Consumers Want: A Complete Guide

What Seafood Consumers Want: A Complete Guide

What Seafood Consumers Want: A Complete GuideAs an Alaska Seafood or Aquaculture Processor, you’re a key player in bridging the gap between fishermen/fish farming and consumers. After you get your supply, it’s your job to process and...

COVID-19’s Impact on the Food Industry

COVID-19’s Impact on the Food Industry

COVID-19’s Impact on the Food IndustryDuring these uncertain times one thing is for sure – the food industry is being impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. But, adding to the uncertainty is wondering how exactly the industry is being...

The Food Manufacturer’s Guide to Handling the Coronavirus

The Food Manufacturer’s Guide to Handling the Coronavirus

The Food Manufacturer’s Guide to Handling the Coronavirus ​As the coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt families, healthcare, the economy, and more, the food industry is not exempt from feeling its effects. While the food industry...

3 Tips for Leveraging Your Fish Ticket Premiums & Bonuses

3 Tips for Leveraging Your Fish Ticket Premiums & Bonuses

3 Tips for Leveraging Your Fish Ticket Premiums & Bonuses​Alaska fishermen can deliver their catch to anyone. But, you don’t want them delivering to just anyone, you want them delivering to you. To make that happen, leverage your Fish...

Your Essential Guide to Fisherman Balance TransparenSEA

Your Essential Guide to Fisherman Balance TransparenSEA

Your Essential Guide to Fisherman Balance TransparenSEA​In the world of Alaska Seafood processing, your fishermen’s balances are constantly fluctuating as they take out loans, make purchases, sell you fish, have tender deliveries,...

3 Challenges of Alaska Seafood Fish Ticket Repricing

3 Challenges of Alaska Seafood Fish Ticket Repricing

3 Challenges of Alaska Seafood Fish Ticket Repricing When it comes to finalizing fish tickets post-season and accounting for bonuses and adjustments, these post-season price adjustments can be daunting. In order to report your...

2020 Alaska Seafood Processing Resources | NorthScope

2020 Alaska Seafood Processing Resources | NorthScope

2020 Alaska Seafood Processing List of ResourcesAs an Alaska Seafood Processor, you have a lot of rules and regulations you need to abide by in order to keep your business afloat. As we enter 2020, here’s your list of resources to make...

Alaska Fish Ticket Repricing Best Practices

Alaska Fish Ticket Repricing Best Practices

Alaska Fish Ticket Repricing Best PracticesRepricing at the end of an Alaska fishing season can be daunting. But, by following our four steps of best practices, this process can get easier and more efficient year over year. Step 1:...

Efficiency & Maintenance in Food Manufacturing

Efficiency & Maintenance in Food Manufacturing

Efficiency & Maintenance in Food Manufacturing​ So you’re concerned about efficiency and maintenance as a food manufacturer… Good news! You’re not alone. According to the 2019 Food Engineering State of Food Manufacturing survey, 37% of...

Sustainable Food Manufacturing

Sustainable Food Manufacturing

What Does “Sustainable” Really Mean for Food Manufacturers? (Among other food manufacturing trends)Sustainability is among one of the major trends currently impacting the food industry but what does it mean for you as a food...

How To Use One System For All Your Food Software Needs

How To Use One System For All Your Food Software Needs

How To Use One System For All Your Food Software Needs Juggling Multiple Systems to Run Your Food Business is Rough. We know that juggling multiple systems is daunting, time consuming, and quite frankly – extremely frustrating. Some...

Food ERP Software – What Makes Us Different?

Food ERP Software – What Makes Us Different?

Food ERP Software - What Makes Us Different? When it comes to your business software, you deserve a system that partners with you to achieve your goals. And how can it do that if it doesn’t understand what you do? We don’t think it...

Signs You’ve Outgrown Quickbooks (Or Something Like It) As Your Food ERP Software

Signs You’ve Outgrown Quickbooks (Or Something Like It) As Your Food ERP Software

Have you been using Quickbooks as the ERP software for your food business? Are you wondering if it’s time to upgrade to a food specific ERP system? Are you aware that ERP software for food manufacturers even exists? Here are our top five signs you’ve outgrown Quickbooks and should move on to ERP software for food manufacturers.

Common Food ERP Software Issues We Help Solve

Common Food ERP Software Issues We Help Solve

Have you ever been frustrated using business software? Yeah, us too. That’s why we’ve made it our mission to remove those frustrations. What frustrations are we referring to? The most common frustrations we’ve encountered and helped our customers solve with the help of NorthScope are listed below.

NorthScope’s Why Interview

NorthScope’s Why Interview

For over eleven years, The Northlake Partners, creators of NorthScope ERP software for food manufacturers, have provided ERP software and step-by-step guidance to food manufacturers, giving them the tools to build the business they’ve always wanted. With over 35 years combined experience in the Food ERP industry, managing partners Tom Williams and Adam Herman share some insight on WHY they started the company and HOW they do what they do.

Why NorthScope

Why NorthScope

Wouldn’t it be great if your team was fulfilled at work? Wouldn’t it be great if you could spend your time working on valuable things you enjoy doing? We think so, in fact, they’re the reasons WHY we do what we do.

Fish Farming On The Rise

Fish Farming On The Rise

People are eating more fish. And more fish is coming from aquaculture. In fact, per capita fish consumption has increased from about 20 pounds per year in 1962 to about 45 pounds per year today with fish farming producing about 50% of that today, compared to less than 10% 30 years ago.

Three Food Safety Tips You May Not Have Heard

Three Food Safety Tips You May Not Have Heard

Three Food Safety Tips You May Not Have Heard Food safety is of the utmost importance to food manufacturers. And yet, each year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 48 million people in the United States get...

Why Choose NorthScope As Your Food ERP Software?

Why Choose NorthScope As Your Food ERP Software?

Have you ever been frustrated using business software?Maybe you haven’t found a system that can do everything for your food business so you’ve ended up with multiple programs that don’t work together. Or, maybe your current system is outdated.

How Do I Manage Food Allergies Within Food Processing?

How Do I Manage Food Allergies Within Food Processing?

According to the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, peanut allergies in children have increased by 21% since 2010. Additionally, eight foods are the cause of 90% of allergic reactions: milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, soy, wheat, fish and shellfish.

How To Pick A Food ERP System

How To Pick A Food ERP System

Have you found yourself asking, “How do I pick a food ERP system?” Or maybe you’ve wondered, “What’s the best food manufacturing ERP software?” Or even, “What ERP software should I use for my food business?” Finding the right ERP software is a hard task and maybe you don’t know where to start.

The Current State (Or Plate) Of Food – Fast Facts

The Current State (Or Plate) Of Food – Fast Facts

The food industry is constantly changing and to be successful in the food manufacturing industry, you have to stay abreast of the trends. To help with that, here is your cheat sheet of fast facts as to the current state (or plate) of food.

NorthScope ERP Makes Alaska Seafood Fish Ticket Management Easier

NorthScope ERP Makes Alaska Seafood Fish Ticket Management Easier

Throughout the first quarter of 2019, NorthScope ERP upgraded its Fisherman Accounting features for Alaska Seafood Processors. While its entire list of new features from Q1 expands beyond Fisherman Accounting, the biggest upgrades were to NorthScope’s management of eLandings integration and Fish Ticket data entry.

Sustainability & Food Packaging – What Food Manufacturers Need to Know

Sustainability & Food Packaging – What Food Manufacturers Need to Know

As the demand for sustainability continues to grow in the food industry, it’s no surprise that it has now expanded into food packaging. In fact, according to the Nielsen Global Corporate Sustainability Report, 66% of consumers will pay more for products from sustainable brands and 73% will actually pay more for sustainable products – and food packaging is no exception.

Capitalizing on the Organic Food Trend (With An ERP System for Food Manufacturers)

Capitalizing on the Organic Food Trend (With An ERP System for Food Manufacturers)

Do you produce organic fruits and/or vegetables? Do you want to capitalize on the monetary benefits of this ever-growing consumer trend? With the trend towards organic continuing to grow and with strict USDA standards as to being certified organic, food traceability is a must to not lose out on the monetary benefits of capitalizing on a trend that’s here to stay.

Three Reasons to Choose an ERP System Specifically for Food Manufacturers

Three Reasons to Choose an ERP System Specifically for Food Manufacturers

As a food manufacturer, meeting the record-keeping and lot-tracking requirements placed upon you by government regulations is of the utmost importance. So, why shouldn’t it be of the utmost importance to your ERP system, too? Well, it should – and here are our top three reasons why…

NorthScope ERP Software Expands Support for Alaska Seafood Processors

NorthScope ERP Software Expands Support for Alaska Seafood Processors

Throughout 2018, the Northlake Partners, creators of NorthScope ERP software, invested in expanding NorthScope’s features to further support Alaska Seafood Processing. Today, they announced their list of new features that are available with NorthScope. Key features announced for Alaska Seafood Processors include…