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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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

WTH is ERP Software? (AKA: What the Heck is Enterprise Resource Planning Software?): A Summary​Generic business software doesn’t understand you or your business. We provide NorthScope ERP software and step-by-step guidance for food...

NorthScope ERP Adds Transactions for Planning Food Production and Food SalesRedmond, WA: Throughout the second quarter of 2020, in addition to its entire list of improvements, NorthScope ERP software added transactions to help its...

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 ​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...

NorthScope ERP Adds Banking Transactions to Its Suite of Features for Food ManufacturersRedmond, WA: Throughout the first quarter of 2020, NorthScope ERP upgraded its financial features for its food manufacturing users. While its...

Northlake Partners, Creators Of NorthScope Food ERP Software, Named To Food Logistics’ 2019 Fl100+ Top Software And Technology ProvidersRedmond, WA: Food Logistics, the only publication exclusively dedicated to covering the movement of...

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? 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...

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.

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.

Food ERP Software & How It Can Help Your Company Grow & Succeed Don’t make the same mistake twice. As business leaders, we want to lead our business to success but the software tools we use can prevent that from happening. If...

In an industry full of difficult to use, inefficient and slow software that requires never-ending implementations and high costs to customize, the Northlake Partners (NLP) is offering a different solution in the world of food ERP software.

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.

NorthScope Food ERP Develops ACH File & Document Imaging Integration During Q2 Redmond, WA: Based on customer need, the team behind NorthScope completed two new features in Q2 that will be released on July 12, 2019. These include...

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.

Driven to make life easier for users, NorthScope has been re-organized based on job functions. With functions grouped by functional areas, NorthScope, ERP software for food manufacturers, is more intuitive and easier to use than ever before.

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.

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.

With more than 600,000 businesses in the food and beverage industry, competition is fierce. To increase your bottom line and beat the competition, you can’t sacrifice product quality or production output – so what do you do?

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…

Imagine buying ERP software for your business only to find out upon implementation that it wasn’t really a good fit for your needs. Unfortunately, it happens – and it can cost you a lot of wasted time and money. But, it doesn’t have to…