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| Mark your calendars! Minotaur’s annual User Conference will be held on October 15th and 16th. |
This two day event will give you the opportunity to check out new developments in Minotaur technology as well as give you a glimpse into what directions we are taking in the future. We will also be offering several hands-on training sessions on advanced features like our report writers.
Take this opportunity to connect with other Minotaur users from a variety of industries or meet with your Minotaur Account Manager.
We would love to hear from you. Let us know if there are any topics you would like us to cover at this years conference. Email your suggestions to michelle@minotaursoftware.com |
Watch for your personal invitation to arrive and mark your calendars.
We look forward to seeing you at this year’s conference! |
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| It’s Here! Growing Forward Grant Program across Canada |
The federal and provincial governments have combined on a long term grant program for Food companies, with the federal government picking up 60% of the costs and the provinces providing 40%. Each province gets to decide what their grant program will look like, what criteria will be used and how much each company can get.
In Ontario, it offers grants up to $20,000 for the implementation of or improvement to lot traceability systems. In Ontario, both food processors and distributors qualify. To submit an application in Ontario you must attend a growing forward 3 hour Information session before submitting your application. For information on the program in Ontario, follow this link (the one you have) |
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Each provinces program looks different, so if you are outside Ontario, please visit the Growing Forward Canada website for links to your provincial body and the rules for your province.
http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1200339470715&lang=eng
This grant can be used to purchase Minotaur lot traceability software or to enhance what you already have for traceability and for the training and even the label printers to make the project work. For more information on the program, contact
Judith@minotaursoftware.com
NOW IS THE TIME TO PREPARE FOR THE FUTURE, WE’LL SHOW YOU HOW |
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More and More customers are making the switch to Minotaur’s latest version, MBS7 and are reaping the rewards of great new features such as the ability to quickly email pdfs, view forms on screen, quickly get data into Excel, and much more. Improved process speed is another benefit of MBS7.
Here’s what some of our customers had to say about making the switch;
“The windows project went excellent. Your team performed wonderfully for us and each demonstrated the sense of care and respect for our business and people.” Carmen Cesario, Controller, Italpasta Ltd.
“Having just upgraded to Minotaur’s MBS7 program, our staff needed training on the new features. Instead of on-site training, we chose to send our staff to the Minotaur training facility where everyone had a laptop and time away from the office to focus. Wendy did a great job and the training room is terrific. It was very professionally taught and I like her presentation style. We now feel ready to roll out the new version.” Tracy Parzych, CEO, International Time Recorder Co. Ltd.
If you haven’t already done so, contact your Minotaur account rep and find out how you too can reap the benefits of MBS7.
We would also be more than happy to show you an online demo of the various features MBS7 has to offer. Simply email wendy@minotaursoftware.com to arrange a time. |
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If you are using the Minotaur Buttons feature you will be happy to know that you can now arrange the buttons anyway you like.
Initially when setting up your buttons the system will automatically arrange them in the order they were listed on the Buttons screen. |
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Initially when setting up your buttons the system will automatically arrange them in the order they were listed on the Buttons screen.
Newer releases of MBS7 now
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give you control of where you would like your buttons placed. Once you have created your buttons, simply click and drag the buttons around your Minotaur desktop to place them in the order you want.
Once you have arranged all your buttons the way you want them you can lock them into place by selecting the Lock locations flag on the Buttons screen.
You can also reset the buttons to the system default by selecting the Reset flag on the Buttons screen. |
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Recently Minotaur has added support for a number of new documents to the EDI Module.
855 Purchase Order Acknowledgements
The 855 is a complex document that advises customers if their purchase order has been accepted, rejected or accepted with changes. This document will advise the customer on price changes, item substitutions, quantity changes, unit changes and expected shipping dates. To provide this support, columns were added to the sales order line item screen for an alternate ship date and an alternate shipping quantity. These new fields enable the user to identify all the expected ship dates and quantities to be shipped on those dates. The logic is set up so that the user simply modifies the details on the sales order and creates the 855. The program compares the sales orders with the original 850 PO and identifies differences sending the details in the 855.
To better qualify inventory units used in Minotaur, a new field was added to the units definition screen to identify the ANSI and or ISO Unit code that is equivalent to the Minotaur Inventory Unit.
850 Purchase Order
Minotaur has always supported incoming 850’s. The program now supports outgoing 850’s. The 850 Purchase order is generated directly from the Minotaur Purchase Order.
856 Advanced Shipping Notice ASN
The outgoing 856 ASN has been part of the Minotaur EDI module from the beginning. Recently support was added for Incoming ASN’s. The program uses the prices and landing factor details from the purchase orders and the quantities from the ASN to generate the interim bill. Serial number and Lot numbers are supported in this document.
Third part Warehouse management tools
Minotaur has also added a group of documents used for communication with a 3rd party warehouse facility. The documents are the 940, 944 and 945.
940 Warehouse Shipping Order
This transaction is used to advise a warehouse of a sales order to be shipped to a customer. The document advises the warehouse of the delivery address, requested ship date and the details of the items to be shipped. This document is generated directly from the Minotaur sales order.
945 Warehouse Shipping Advice
This transaction is returned by the warehouse once the shipping request made with the 940 has been shipped. Minotaur processes the 945 and generates a shipment based on the quantities specified in the 945
944 Warehouse Stock Transfer Receipt Advice
This document is sent by the third party warehouse when a supplier delivers your order to their warehouse. Minotaur interprets this document and generates an interim bill based on the quantities defined in the 944 and the prices and landing factor information from the Minotaur purchase order.
For more information on these or any EDI documents please contact your Minotaur Account Representative. |
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Blanket orders are single large agreements made with your customers to purchase material over a period of time. There is no specific requirement to deliver any product on any given date. Over time, the customer will send releases indicating that a certain amount of material should be delivered based on the terms of the blanket order.
The new Blanket Orders Management feature treats blanket orders differently than regular single orders. Primarily, it is important for production planning, that the initial blanket order is not treated as a real order in the |
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system or you could accidentally over produce product. When blanket orders arrive, they are loaded into the system and flagged as quotes rather than orders in order to ensure they can be eliminated from system requirement reporting.
When releases against a blanket order arrive, the purchase order number assigned to the release will be set up to include the blanket order purchase order followed by a tilde (~) followed by the release number.
Each blanket order will be identified as being for fixed or variable quantity. When a release is shipped for a fixed quantity blanket order, the system will identify the associated blanket and reduce the quantities on the blanket order as well as reducing the quantities on the release order. Note that this means that the blanket order is updated at release shipment time, not at time of entry of the release order.
For more information on the new blanket order management function please contact your Minotaur Account Representative. |
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| Fixed Blanket refers to a blanket order made for a fixed quantity. Variable blanket refers to blanket orders that do not reflect a fix quantity. |
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| Circle as many differences as you can find between the two pictures and you could win a $50 gift certificate for M&M Meat shops just in time for your summer BBQ! Fax your entries back to Minotaur by August 3rd. |
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Fax your entries to 905-458-5585 or email to michelle@minotaursoftware.com
Name: _____________________ Company: ___________________ |
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| On April 22, 2009 Minotaur attended the Ontario Food Protection Association’s Spring Technical session. We would like to congratulate Arnold Strub of Northbridge SR &ED Consultants for winning our prize. Arnold won a flexible keyboard. For more information on the Ontario Food Protection Association visit their website at www.ofpa.on.ca |
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| After experiencing some bad luck with our previous sign being blown down in a wind storm, we are happy to finally see our new and improved sign installed. This will hopefully make it easier for those of you visiting our office to find us. |
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| Want to go paperless? |
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| If you would prefer to receive this newsletter by email, or if there are others in your office who would like to receive an emailed copy of
this newsletter, please let us know. |
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| Congratulations to our Winner |
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Congratulations to Pauline Cheng of Daily Seafoods Inc. for winning last month’s Minotaur Word Search contest. Daily Seafood located in Toronto, Ontario is a wholesale and retail seafood supplier. They provide a large selection of seafood from all over the world to restaurants, hotels and retailers in the Toronto area. Pauline works in the sales department and has been with Daily for 7 years. Pauline has won a $50 gift card for Walmart.
Congratulations Pauline. We hope you enjoy your gift. |
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| The information in this newsletter is provided to customers to use at their own risk. It is not intended as a substitute for professional advice. |
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