Jul 07, 2022

5 feed mill inventory management, traceability trends

How tying facility automation with data-packed barcodes and, someday, blockchain will revolutionize mill inventory tracking

— ByElise Schafer

Inventory and warehouse management for feed millsis usually labor intensive and riddled with opportunities for human error. But it doesn’t have to be, thanks to advances in electronic inventory monitoring,barcodesand scanners.

Integrating such tools with facility automation gives feed manufacturers complete control over the physical and electronic movement and tracking of materials, while communicating with anERP systemto track raw,work in process(WIP), and finished good dollar...

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