Take Me to the Cloud

In this episode, we welcome back John Shepperson, Senior VP Business Development at SWK Technologies and a special guest Nick Barron. Nick is a Manager of Information Technology at Marathon Ventures, a full-service processing, manufacturing, packaging and marketing company for foods and beverages. 

John and Nick discuss disruptions Marathon Ventures faced in their supply chain during the pandemic and what the organization has done to overcome these challenges.

Together Steve Gignac, Director of Solution Architecture of Enterprise Solutions, and John Shepperson, Senior VP Business Development for SWK Technologies, bring 50+ years’ experience in the food and beverage industry to this episode. 

Listen in as they take a further look at the new food safety blueprint, critical tracking events, cost of manual processes and tracking paper as well as benefits of electronic documentation for businesses in the industry.

Kim Gordon welcomes back Steve Gignac from SWK Technologies, Director of Solution Architecture of Enterprise Solutions. Kim and Steve have a great conversation on critical tracking events, FDA regulations, and how traceability plays a role. Learn more about traceability on our next episode with John Shepperson from SWK Technologies.

In this episode, we’re kicking off a series on insights in the Food and Beverage industry. Our host Kim Gordon welcomes Steve Gignac from SWK Technologies, Director of Solution Architecture of Enterprise Solutions, who brings to the conversation 30 years of experience in the food and beverage industry operations. 

Kim and Steve discuss trends in traceability and its correlation to the biggest risk and compliance factors in the industry, new/proposed FDA regulations and their importance, compliance techniques and how technology can play into protecting consumers more than ever before.

We’re changing things up a bit in this episode to take a look at an area that has surely been shaken up by last year’s events – supply chain. Walter Merkas and Christian DiRusso take a look into supply chains and how cost to serve comes into play to improved profitability. They break down and analyze customers, products and costs.

In our last episode, we defined the auction process and the phases that play into it. To follow up on that, Kim Gordon and Walter Merkas meet again to look at ways to enable a smooth auction process, creating flexibility and efficiently connecting all parties involved. Listen in as they make a business case for cloud solutions which can present cost saving, business agility, mobility, and scalability.

The auction process consists of several phases and is a unique blend of sales, valuation, e commerce, and warehousing that makes this a distinct model. In this episode, Walter Merkas and Kim Gordon break down the process into pre-auction, auction and post-auction to give our listeners insight into elements you need to consider in all three phases to accomplish a smooth operation – no matter the type of auction house.

An unfortunate supply chain challenge today is lack of global resilience and sustainability. As supply chain and operations are becoming more costly, supply chains are breaking down in the face of multi-country disruptions. Is digitization of supply chains the answer? In this episode, Walter Merkas and Kim Gordon discuss today’s supply chain trends and challenges and look into the potential causes and solutions to this disruption. 

In an ever-changing business climate, your company can be impacted both positively and negatively which requires real time data at a moment’s notice. Meet FAST! 

Alex LaMalfa, Outsourced Accounting Systems and Services, and Christian DiRusso, Business and Management Consulting, introduce Kim Gordon and our listeners to a new practice – Financial Planning and Analysis as a Service. Learn what Withum FAST is and how it provides a stress-free solution of a perfectly framed financial picture, saving companies valuable time and money.

In this episode, Christian DiRusso, Kim Gordon and Alex LaMalfa look at a topic that has become very important for organizations during the pandemic – spend management. They define spend management and its function in a business and suggest best practices. They also take a look at some uses cases to showcase benefits of a well-developed spend management system.