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What Fresh Produce Businesses Can Learn From D&F McCarthy

#1656 | By Jade C. 06/07/2026

Fresh produce businesses operate in an environment where every decision counts. Products have limited shelf life, margins can be tight, and customer expectations continue to rise. As businesses grow, maintaining visibility and control becomes increasingly challenging. D&F McCarthy has been supplying fresh fruit and veg

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More Connected Operations

#413 | By Jade C. 26/01/2026

Walk into any busy wholesale depot today, and the challenges are clear. Forklifts moving at pace, pallets arriving from multiple suppliers, customer orders flying in through every channel - all under increasing cost and compliance pressures. It’s an industry that runs on tight margins, rapid decisions and absolute accu

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Transparency You Can Taste: How De Facto Handles Traceability

#390 | By Alan P. 20/10/2025

Traceability in food production is a crucial element of modern food safety and quality management systems. It enables producers, processors, and retailers to track every step of a food product’s journey; from raw material sourcing and processing to distribution and sale. By maintaining detailed records of where ingredi

Kestrel Foods (Forest Feast) Case Study

ERP video case study for Food - Kestrel Foods (Forest Feast)

#627 | By Alan P. 06/10/2025

A De Facto Software video case study featuring Kestrel Foods (Forest Feast), one of our customers in the food industry.

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What Food Manufacturers Can Learn From Kestrel Foods

#37 | By Alan P. 16/07/2025

From Workarounds to Workflow: Lessons in Sustainable Growth from Kestrel Foods What do hand-faxed purchase orders, multiple currencies, and a warehouse full of premium snacks have in common? They’re all part of a story about a business growing faster than its systems. Kestrel Foods — home to Forest Feast, Acti-Snack, J

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ERP video case study for Fresh Produce Food - D & F McCarthy

#623 | By Alan P. 11/06/2025

A De Facto Software video case study featuring D & F McCarthy, one of our customers in the fresh produce food industry.

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Documents - Part 3: Outbound Communication

#1672 | By Dan S. 11/08/2026

In the previous post in the series, we delved into some more advanced features. This post brings these features together and explains how they’re utilised to send emails, print files or upload files to file servers. Ad-Hoc An Outbound Communication Document can be created, populated and sent manually. This could be as

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More Than a Website: A Digital Extension of Your Business

#611 | By Andy J. 28/04/2026

When we design and build websites, our starting point is always your business and not a template. Every business has its own vision, expertise, and way of delivering value to its customers. Too often we see businesses forced to reshape themselves to fit “out‑of‑the‑box” website and ERP platforms, losing the very detail

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Real-World Solutions for Today’s Finance Director

#1709 | By Alan P. 17/09/2026

De Facto ERP software is a highly configurable, cloud-based platform designed to be the financial and operational backbone of complex, multi-entity businesses. For Finance Directors (FDs) juggling tight margins, messy supply chains, and multi-company organisations, the system brings together total financial control and

Behind Every Good Website...

#1704 | By Jade C. 14/09/2026

Is a solid Content Management System (CMS). Being able to change a heading, replace an image or publish a new page is useful. But a good CMS should go further than simply letting you edit what's already there. We recently put that thinking into practice on our own website. As part of a wider update, our former Insights

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Overcoming Distribution Chaos: How De Facto ERP Empowers Operations Directors

#1663 | By Alan P. 27/07/2026

Operations directors in distribution face relentless pressure to cut costs, speed up fulfillment, and maintain perfect inventory accuracy all while navigating unpredictable supply chain disruptions. An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system acts as a central nervous system, turning daily logistical headaches into sm

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What a Long-Term ERP Partnership Really Looks Like

#432 | By Jade C. 20/07/2026

There’s a common belief that ERP success is decided at go-live. If transactions process correctly and users are trained, the project is considered complete. But in practice, 'go-live' simply proves the system works. The real measure of ERP success is what happens 12, 24, or 60 months later. Built to Grow - Not Be Repla