Witches, ghosts, pumpkins, and candy are all words that you can associate with Halloween. I mean who doesn’t love Halloween? You get to dress up and get free candy! I always loved trick-or-treating and then trading with my friends and family for the best candy…Reese’s, M&Ms, and Junior Mints. And you can’t forget about that feeling afterwards of you knowing you ate too much, but you didn’t care because it is the one time of the year that it is socially acceptable to eat 8 pounds of candy and your parents let you stay out late.
For the past two years, Jimmy Kimmel has done a segment called “I told My Kids that I Ate All Their Halloween Candy” and if you haven’t seen it, you are missing out. It is probably one of the most entertaining, funniest viral videos to date. It is one of those videos that you can watch over and over again. Some people might call it cruel and say something along the lines of “you should never do that to your children”, but it is just for fun and games and in no way reflects you as a parent.
This is where tracking solutions for food and beverage come into the picture, such as RFID, barcodes, GPS, mobile device, and wireless communication. These solutions enable companies to monitor their operations and supply chain to ensure that the right ingredients are being used, as well as if these companies are in compliance with regulations set forth by the government. Tracking solutions are also helpful from the customer’s perspective, such as having the ability to give an alert when products might be expired.These viral videos got us brainstorming here at L-Tron. We thought about how awesome it would be for kids to be able to place tracking technology, such as GPS, in all their candy to see where it is and if in fact, their parents did eat all their Halloween candy. While this idea might be a little challenging for children to actually execute from the time they get their Halloween candy home, perhaps technology could be used for other more realistic situations that coincide with the food and beverage industry.
The Carolina Blueberry Association is a success story related to this topic. The Carolina Blueberry Association is a produce distributor that was looking for better traceability of their output. This is where track and trace solutions from Zebra Technologies comes into the picture. They found a track and trace solution that will help them do following:
- Increase efficiencies
- Stay in compliance with regulations
- Reduce costs
- Increase customer safety
- Protect their brand name
- Give them a competitive advantage
L-Tron, as an advanced partner with Zebra Technologies, offers an assortment of different tracking solutions that help solve your business’s challenges. One of these solutions is the R110Xi4 Thermal Transfer Printer. The 110Xi4 increases productivity, by pacing the production line through the use of barcodes and is extremely flexible in terms of being able to print specialty label applications, especially RFID.
If this printer does not sound like it solves your business challenge, you can visit our Track and Trace solution page for the food and beverage industry to find the solution that is a perfect fit your business. You can also call our toll free number, 800-830-9523, to talk our experts and they will help you find a solution that suite your business needs.