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| WestFarm Foods Selects LabVantageT for Enterprise Quality Management LIMS Solution |
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Bridgewater, NJ November 7, 2002. LabVantage Sapphire™ Selected by WestFarm Foods to Help Reduce Operating Costs and Improve Customer Service
LabVantage Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of Life Sciences LIMS and Enterprise LIMS solutions, announced today that WestFarm Foods has signed an enterprise software and services agreement for LabVantage Sapphire™. WestFarm Foods produces a full line of dairy-based and other products for consumer, commodity and specialty markets. With plants located in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and California, the company serves western, national, and international markets. WestFarm Foods will be using Sapphire™ to improve their overall management of quality and production processes and to provide customers with access to quality data via Sapphire™’s browser-based, "virtual user" licenses.
WestFarm Foods will implement LabVantage Sapphire™ with a centralized Microsoft SQL Server database at their headquarters in Seattle, Washington and will be integrating Sapphire™ with their Oracle CPG Information Management System. Customers will be given virtual user licenses that will enable them to submit and review quality samples via secure Internet browser connections that expand data access beyond the laboratory’s traditional four walls. This approach enables WestFarm Foods to improve customer communication and service. In addition, this form of software deployment is easy-to-maintain and scalable to keep pace with the changing needs of the organization.
"Succeeding in a highly competitive world means continuously searching for new ways to lower costs and increase efficiencies," said WestFarm Foods’ Chief Information Officer George Ryerson. Ryerson also stated, "LabVantage Sapphire™ provides our quality organization with a flexible laboratory automation solution that integrates with our Oracle enterprise system and our Biwer Milk Procurement information system and addresses our internal and external requirements to allow us to increase our efficiencies and lower our operating costs."
"LabVantage has clearly become the leading laboratory software solution provider for food and beverage manufacturers by offering a secure, browser-based solution that can scale and perform," said Scott Deutsch, vice president, global marketing, LabVantage. Deutsch continued, "WestFarm Food’s selection of Sapphire™ is another instance of our continued, global success with the food and beverage industry. Other such organizations that use Sapphire™ include Excel, Northern Foods, Tropicana, Foremost Farms, Jones Dairy, Kerry Foods, ConAgra, Unilever and Danone."
LabVantage Sapphire™ - Rich Functionality and Extensive Technology Solution. LabVantage Sapphire™ is an information solution with rich technology that provides flexible, visual workflow capability for today’s leading laboratories and research institutes. Key functional elements available in LabVantage Sapphire™ include:
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Flexible sample management |
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Extensive specification management |
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Rapid instrument integration |
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Stability and shelf-life analysis |
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Virtual User licenses for the enterprise |
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21 CFR Part 11 compliance |
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Certificate of Analysis and other key report generation |
WestFarm Foods. WestFarm Foods produces a full line of dairy-based and other products for the consumer, commodity and specialty markets. With plants located in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and California, the company serves western, national, and international markets, depending on product type. WestFarm Foods is one of Washington's largest privately held companies. With annual dairy and related products sales exceeding $1.3 billion, WestFarm Foods is prominent amongst the largest dairy products companies in the nation. For further information about WestFarm Foods, please visit their Web site at www.westfarm.com.
About LabVantage Solutions. LabVantage Solutions, a Chatterjee Group company, is the leader in Life Sciences LIMS and Enterprise LIMS solutions. LabVantage helps customers reach beyond the traditional four walls of the laboratory with solutions that enable information sharing via intranets and extranets. LabVantage has data management and information production software for high throughput screening, genomics, proteomics and traditional manufacturing QA/QC. LabVantage products excel in the areas of workflow process automation, open database modeling, and integration of multiple data sources into a single browser interface. The company also offers services that ensure customer success, such as industry and technology consulting, implementation services, application training, and extensive customer support services. For further information about LabVantage Solutions, please visit our Web site at www.labvantage.com.
Certain statements contained in this release may be forward looking statements and are thus prospective. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from future results expressed or implied by such forward looking statements. |
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