Automated coding and labeling helps improve this California rice product manufacturer’s process
Farmers’ Rice Cooperative implemented AutoCoding Systems’ coding and packaging verification solution to its ERP system, which helped meet operational goals.
Farmers’ Rice Cooperative (FRC), a grower-owned rice cooperative located in Sacramento, produces an average of 750,000 packs of rice per month in 26 different variations, 51 different packaging options and 43 different size options. Therefore, the potential to make mistakes with regard to date coding, labeling and packaging is high.
Many different variants mean there are many various date formats and labeling requirements. Add to this a legal obligation to add special markings and/or foreign language markings to products, FRC was faced with a challenge to mitigate risks of coding and labeling errors by streamlining processes and removing human intervention as much as possible.