Halenda’s Meats Has Continued Success
 Richard Halenda was awarded the Oshawa Business Person of the Year Award in 2009. Minotaur Software was honored to be mentioned in his thank you speech as one of Halenda’s success partners.
Since that time Halenda’s has continued to grow and win numerous awards for their Meat products including acquiring Richard and Sons in Mississauga in 2011.
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"We're now doing 8 times the volume we did 7 years ago, with little to no increase in people cost. My investment in this solution was an absolute bargain!"
Richard Halenda, CEO of
Halenda's Meats in Oshawa, ON |
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| We are excited about the release of a new Minotaur case study on Halenda’s Meats, and their implementation and growth with the Minotaur system. To read this visit our website or click the following link: |
| http://www.minotaursoftware.com/pdf/Case%20Study%20Halendas.pdf |
| Call one of our industry experts today and learn how Minotaur Software can help your business. |
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Traceability and Barcode Scanning
How to Mitigate Risk and Improve Efficiencies
Tuesday January 24th 6:30pm - 9:30pm
North York Civic Centre, Memorial Hall 5120 Yonge St., North York, Ontario |
 Wendy Pineo of Minotaur has been invited back once again by the Toronto Chapter of the Certified General Accountants Association to give a presentation on Traceability and Barcode Scanning. This event is open to CGA’s as well as the general public. |
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Traceability and recall preparedness are no longer a luxury regardless of company size. This session will explore what is feasible and achievable along with tips for managing all that information within various industries and environments. Learn about types of barcodes and where they are used.
We’ll also discuss options in barcode scanning hardware, plant setup and insight into how many companies are utilizing barcode scanning to improve productivity and quality within production and warehouse areas.
This event will be held on Tuesday January 24th from 6:30 pm to 9:30pm and is open to all who are interested at a cost of $28.25 per person. To register for this event or for additional information follow the link below. Using the filter date of Jan 24, 2012 and key word, traceability, will help you find locate the event on the site.
http://www.cga-ontario.org/EventReg/eventListing.aspx |
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Do you sell fresh product?
Do you deliver to customers daily or weekly?
Is it important to your business to monitor trends in
customer’s daily or weekly sales?
Companies who deal with fresh product, standing orders and multiple deliveries per week per customer, often struggle with effectively managing all that information. The Minotaur business management system helps you control overhead costs and ensure superior customer service by streamlining the order entry process, simplifying production requirements planning and providing route loading and management information. |
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Use Standing Order Templates for Fast, Accurate Daily Orders
It’s as easy as 1,2,3 |
1. Set up the templates with the standard quantities of items typically ordered
2. Batch generate the orders for the week.
3. Edit a customer’s orders for the week at a glance, if needed. |
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| Then, know your production requirements including dough bases, without the need for spreadsheets or manual efforts. |
| Be Proactive ! |
Minotaur’s Daily Column Sales Report was designed to enable you to identify changes in sales activity on a
daily or weekly basis to enable proactive and corrective action when needed. |
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Hands On Training Session
Using Excel to Manipulate Your Minotaur Data |
 As a result of the numerous customer requests, we have decided to offer this workshop again. This workshop will take an in depth look at manipulating data in Excel. Using simple data from Minotaur, learn to create charts and pivot tables to provide additional tools for analyzing your data.
The course will be held on Tuesday January 24 from 9am to 11pm and is open to all Minotaur Users. The cost of the course is $100 per person. To register, please contact Michelle Stamper at 905-458-7575 Ext. 110 or email her at michelle@minotaursoftware.com. |
| We would welcome any feedback as to the hands on training sessions you might be interested in attending in 2012. Please email Michelle with any ideas. |
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By popular demand, our newsletter will now include a section that will describe some generic System Parameters and other tips and tricks that we feel some customers may find useful. Generally these Parameters can be set in any system to activate a feature.
Please keep the following in mind:
While we make every effort to make the parameter generic, we cannot guarantee that they will work in every system. Please contact your Minotaur Project Manager if you are interested in implementing any System Parameter changes.
View Invoice Laser Form on Screen
A system setting is used such that if you drill down on an invoice number from a Minotaur report such as the Aged Receivables Report, the laser formatted invoice will appear on screen; a real time saver if you want to email a PDF copy to your customer. When the parameter is not set, the CRHD – Detailed Invoice History Report is displayed; typically for those customers who prefer to utilize pre-printed invoice forms.
Options for Global Print Selection Screen
These parameters will change your selection printing screen from a series of YN’s to check boxes. Default settings are also used to minimize manual input from staff. |
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| Congratulations to November’s Contest Winner |
 Congratulations to Anabela Barrocas from York Chicken Wholesale for winning the Autumn Word Search. Anabela has won a $50 Gift Card to M&M Meat shops.
York Chicken Wholesale has been a Minotaur customer for over 4 years. York Chicken Wholesale is located in Toronto, Ontario. York Chicken is a supplier of Fresh Chicken and Fresh/Frozen Turkeys.
Anabela has been with York Chicken for 4 years as the purchaser and really enjoys her job. In her spare time she loves to listen to music with a good cup of coffee. She also enjoys shopping and traveling.
We hope you enjoy your gift card! |
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