The Canadian Information Productivity Awards (CIPA) has announced that it has selected Sologlobe as the recipient of the Silver Award of Excellence for the Implementation of a Food Traceability System at Viau Foods.
   This award recognizes Sologlobe’s achievement in significant and ongoing innovation for business application solutions. The SOLOCHAIN™ solution is a complete logistics and manufacturing solution that helps companies achieve excellence in logistics and manufacturing operations. Integrating leading edge technologies, the solution provides real-time information in order to optimize operations and customer satisfaction.
   “The results at Viau Foods were exceptional,” says Angela Sorbo, Vice-President at Viau Foods. “We were able to optimize all aspects of our operations and also put in place a sophisticated and very efficient traceability system.
   The traceability system has become a competitive advantage for Viau Foods and has contributed to its success in winning several new accounts,” adds Ms. Sorbo. The traceability requirement is becoming an imperative in many industries as a key capability that needs to be embedded in all material/product handling processes. Integrating the traceability capability as an integral part of a warehouse and manufacturing system has been a good challenge in terms of technology innovation. “Traceability is often a parallel process creating a lot of non-value activities; we focus on optimizing task execution while at the same time collecting the information required for detailed traceability. As a result, you get traceability at no cost; you actually save money,” adds Emmanuel Langlois, Executive Vice-President of Sologlobe. The success at Viau Foods is a great tribute to that innovative approach.