Hillcrest Foods, Inc. tapped VAI, Ronkonkoma, N.Y., to streamline warehouse operations and process and track day-to-day financial transactions.

Blockchain enables individual units of food to be recorded and identified by a transaction record that cannot be edited by any party. This enables suppliers to keep track of the products being shipped by time and location, moving the shipment process along at a quicker pace without missing information that could lead to contamination.

The right ERP partner will support manufacturers in providing safe, consistent, quality-driven products that inspire and ensure consumer confidence now and into the future.

After evaluating several vendors, Vital Farms chose TrueCommerce, a Highjump company, Cranberry Township, Pa.

Bamboo Rose, Gloucester, Mass., launched Bamboo Rose Multi-Enterprise Platform for food processing and formulation.

Aptean, Alpharetta, Ga., acquired UK-based Linkfresh to expand its portfolio and geographic reach of cloud-based solutions for all segments of the food industry.

Aptean, Alpharetta, Ga., acquired Beck Consulting, a Concord, Calif.-based provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for the food industry.

ProcessPro, St. Cloud, Minn., released ProcessPro Global 11.2, a versatile and user-friendly enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution.

Hänel Storage Systems, Pittsburgh, Pa., collaborated with information technology specialists at MAN to link two Hänel Lean-Lift systems to SAP and enable storage system operation via smartglasses.

After talking to vendors and competitors, Caruso Produce turned to Produce Pro Software, Woodridge, Ill.