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Denver-based tech company, ToolCASE, has partnered with software company, Corelation, to provide credit unions with real-time fraud prevention.

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The Joint Standardized Information on Dietary Supplement Ingredients (SIDI) Working Group—a coalition of the dietary supplement industry’s trade associations—today announced the release of the new Certificate of Analysis (CoA) Guideline, the latest in a series of voluntary guidelines for the supplement industry developed to assist finished product manufacturers with the complex process of qualifying their ingredient suppliers.

Typical metrics such as cost or on-time delivery give little insight into how the supply chain impacts a company’s bottom line. Knowing how individual suppliers add value to a business, or cause the ire of customers, is critical in maintaining long term success.

By removing non-compliant good before they arrive for processing or enter manufacturing, companies must eliminate problems before they shop. Supplier Compliance is a 24/7 firewall that enables companies to automatically detect and reject non-compliant ingredients or raw materials before receipt. Automatic CoA processing for PDFs, faxes, spreadsheets, Word documents, and any other supplier-provided format, means companies get continuous alerts on all incoming receipts and their suppliers. This provides instantaneous visibility and feedback while simultaneously reducing labor-intensive and time-consuming manual review and duplicate data entry.

The SIDI Working Group is a cooperative effort run by the dietary supplement industry trade associations including the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA), the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA), the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), the Natural Products Association (NPA), and the United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA).

According to Robert Hudson of TraceGains, “Certificates of Analysis are a vital part of every food manufacturer, processor, and distribution business—however they take time to review and approve; time that costs money and could be more productively spent. Supplier Compliance from TraceGains makes sure that organizations only need to pay attention to CoAs that require actual human eyeballs. The system can automatically reject non-compliant ingredients before they enter processing or manufacturing, and automatically accept conforming shipments that meet your own business rules and internal test results.”

As a new way to speed continuous improvement efforts, actionable data will optimally catch problems before defective, damaged, or faulty materials or ingredients are worked into finished goods. Actionable data in practice should minimize manufacturing costs while maximizing finished goods quality and profitability.

TraceGains makes the food supply chain safer and more profitable by helping companies produce finished goods faster, better, and more cost-effectively. Supplier Compliance is a food safety firewall that allows companies to detect and eliminate problems in the supply chain before they are incorporated into finished goods and shipped to customers. By reducing ingredient variability, the finished product becomes less costly to manufacture, performs better, and ultimately increases customer satisfaction. Supplier Impact enables companies to easily measure how each supplier affects finished goods quality and profitability, and connects product outcomes and customer feedback to specific upstream ingredient suppliers. Suppliers are continuously scored based on performance of key attributes for each shipment, and rank ordered against their peers. Effective product recalls are accelerated and performed at the unit level, so recall costs, long-term brand damage, and brand rehabilitation costs are minimized. All TraceGains solutions present findings in easy-to-understand dashboard graphics with full drilldown capabilities, which are available for onsite deployment or delivered as SaaS (software-as-a-service).

TraceGains makes the food supply chain safer and more profitable by helping companies produce finished goods faster, better, and more cost-effectively.

According to Jeff Klapp at TraceGains, “Actionable Intelligence is what matters and traceability is absolutely an afterthought because in the process of collecting actionable intelligence, traceability data is axiomatically captured. Most food and CPG companies’ quality personnel hold the perception “traceability is already handled.” What is needed is the ability to look at Supplier Compliance and Impacts to improve downstream visibility through the value chain …this results in improved quality attributes from upstream supplier compliance.”

The mission at TraceGains is to protect the brand of food and beverage clients by eliminating problems before product is shipped to the customer. If a problem does occur this unique solution can minimize the brand damage by using patented recall trace-back and track-forward technologies. A recall alert can be initiated within minutes, reducing potentially bad news to one news cycle, and saving customers millions of dollars in long-term brand rehabilitation costs. The Recall Detective analyzes critical risk factors, going beyond material movement tracking; the Recall Minimizer provides instant multiple scenarios for reduced brand damage.

The mission at TraceGains (www.TraceGains.com) is to make the food supply chain safer and more profitable by helping companies produce finished goods faster, better, and more cost-effectively. Supplier Compliance is a food safety firewall that allows companies to detect and eliminate problems in the supply chain before they are incorporated into finished goods and shipped to customers. By reducing ingredient variability, the finished product becomes less costly to manufacture, performs better, and ultimately increases customer satisfaction. Supplier Impact enables companies to easily measure how each supplier affects finished goods quality and profitability, and connects product outcomes and customer feedback to specific upstream ingredient suppliers. Suppliers are continuously scored based on performance of key attributes for each shipment, and rank ordered against their peers. With the TraceGains’ CaseTrace and LabelTrace solutions, companies can achieve true ingredient-level traceability. Effective product recalls are accelerated and performed at the unit level, so recall costs, long-term brand damage, and brand rehabilitation costs are minimized. LabelTrace can be expanded to include brand authentication and consumer-level loyalty marketing. All TraceGains solutions present findings in easy-to-understand dashboard graphics with full drilldown capabilities, which are available for onsite deployment or delivered as SaaS (software-as-a-service). Headquartered in Longmont, Colorado, USA, TraceGains has direct and partner offices throughout North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

According to Jeff Klapp at TraceGains, “The discrete manufacturers’ job is much easier – they have a part number and exact specifications but do not have the variability that food ingredients have. Also, the government allows them to share information much more freely than CPG companies. The range of raw material/ingredient variability is unique to the food supply chain. Thus the business rules based upon variability ranges etc. The discrete manufacturing suppliers supply chain participants are much more visible and easily identified. The food supply chain is much less visible, fragmented, and has many more participants.”

TraceGains, Inc., the SaaS (software as a service) leader in helping companies reduce costs and improve product quality automatically, has been awarded two new patents relating to its core technology, connecting “upstream activities” to “downstream outcomes” across different companies in any supply chain allowing companies to understand their suppliers’ true impact. These new patents increase to fourteen the TraceGains patent portfolio for its cross-enterprise solutions and technology engine, and they both broaden and deepen the range and scope of previously issued patents.

TraceGains’ Profit Optimizer enables businesses to find and analyze the most critical value chain connections and sources of impact. Poorly performing suppliers can be properly counseled or replaced, and adverse internal events or practices can be minimized or eliminated entirely. By correlating and analyzing previously disparate data sets in the value chain, only TraceGains makes it possible to connect upstream inputs, suppliers, and raw materials to downstream outcomes such as product quality or customer satisfaction. Companies can then coach or replace poorly performing suppliers and counteract profit-draining events within the enterprise, and also perpetuate positive practices internally and throughout the supply chain, to achieve complete profit optimization.

Small business owners sometimes struggle with how to attract Capital to grow their business, what products to offer, how best to serve their customers and how to promote their business. New solutions are being added to the Denver area.

Thousands of pets die needlessly every year. According to the Lakewood, Colorado-based American Animal Hospital Association, 1 out of 4 dying pets are savable by using just one pet first aid technique before transporting the animal to the veterinarian. A New Way to Life Pet Services now trains and certifies pet parents and pet professionals to protect their furry friends’ life as first responders and provides the tools to defend their pet’s daily health.

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Trilithic, a leader in broadband test and measurement solutions continues to offer new products to improve technical operations productivity and efficiency. Introducing the new 860 DSP Remote Signal Analyzer which provides a time-saving alternative to driving to remote hub sites to log signal quality measurements. The 860 DSPr is a rack-mounted and browser accessible remote signal analyzer that is designed to provide continuous access to signal analysis at remote hubs or headends. The analyzer is connected to up to four different test points that need to be accessed via browser for analysis or routinely tested. The complete range of tests offered by the 860 DSP can be performed remotely, including Level, QAM (constellation, EQ, BER over time), Spectrum Analysis, Tilt, Scan, Hum, C/N, Depth of Modulation, FM Deviation, and optional VITS and VSB test modes.

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