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manages my company now. I just review the management reports, which offer superior visibility into all aspects of my business.” Through Minotaur’s live costing capability, Halenda’s determined that a smoke house at a newly purchased facility was not working optimally by using the yield data he collected on the items at his main location. By integrating a scale system at his smoke house, he could track exactly where the process was faltering. This enabled Halenda’s to immediately be proactive and correct the problems that were creating the shrinkage. Fixing the shrinkage issue meant better accuracy, higher profits and satisfied customers. In fact, Halenda’s is currently planning to further expand their system by integrating a new time and attendance application to their payroll. They are confident that Minotaur will execute this new application smoothly. It is not surprising that Halenda’s Meats continues to win industry product awards and also received the prestigious Meat Industry Achievement Award in 2011. Halenda’s Meats is doing more than a few things right! Although Halenda’s manufacturing company is separate from its distribution company, both companies require the same customer order information. Minotaur’s EDI support facilitates intercompany data exchange, eliminating the need for additional scanning or data entry. This represented a huge labour savings. Halenda’s now has a solution for ‘risk mitigation’ that has the ability to trace any and all products, and addresses government requirements regarding recall audits. This is an invaluable tool for meat processing/ distribution companies. “The Minotaur Solution has provided us the confidence to grow and expand that we didn’t have before. Minotaur really Richard Halenda CEO of Halenda’s Meats 35 35