From the Desk of Dennis Bruce: Data Masons Welcomes Musco Family Olive Company who Purchased Vantage Point EDI for Microsoft Dynamics AX. Based in Tracy, Calif., with facilities across the state, Musco Family Olive Co. is a privately held family business. Rooted in expertise from

Protenergy Natural Foods Corporation joins the Data Masons ever-growing customer base by purchasing Vantage Point EDI for Microsoft Dynamics NAV in March 2012.

Protenergy Natural Foods Corporation is a fully-integrated manufacturer of natural food and beverage products. From concept through product formulation, analytical and sensory testing, nutritional evaluation, packaging and logistics, they are your single source for cost-efficient, high-quality products. They currently supply many leading retailers and branded manufacturers across North America and around the world, specializing in soups, broths and sauces.

Vantage Point EDI for Dynamics NAV gives Protenergy Natural Foods Corp. a solution that is scalable and capable of growing with them as their EDI requirements increase. Data Masons maintains the industry’s largest trading partner and document libraries to help companies like Protenergy implement in a matter of just days, not weeks or even months…

From Dennis Bruce of Data Masons: Serving parlors, C-stores, schools and colleges in 28 states at over 26,000 locations, this Microsoft Dynamics GP 9 customer depends on its large trading partner network to support its growing business. Supplying many of the top 5 leading food service providers, the customer found that to conduct business with these partners they would have to go through iTradeNetwork. Given iTrade’s key role in handling communications within the food services industry, the customer not only needed to implement an integrated EDI solution that met partner mandates, but also one that could get them up and running with iTrade starting day one.

Working with their Microsoft Dynamics reselling partner, the customer launched its search to find an EDI solution provider with a solution that would accommodate their EDI requirements, and do so with little to no customizations to the Dynamics GP 9 platform. Until now…

This week Consumer Goods Technology published a piece on Peet’s Coffee & Tea’s challenge to maintain both excellent quality and fast growth with its business management technology prior to implementing Microsoft Dynamics AX. Setting off on the process to select a new ERP platform, Peet’s established its goals: simplify IT administration, give business decision-makers reliable, current information and streamline reporting and compliance. With these goals in–hand and help from Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Junction Solutions, Peet’s chose Microsoft Dynamics AX to manage their needs within the food and beverage industry.

Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Inc. (PEET) is the premier specialty coffee and tea company in the U.S., and Microsoft Dynamics AX 4 client, that was recently recognized by Microsoft with a 2011 Microsoft Dynamics Customer Excellence Award for excellence in Evangelism.

With Peet’s selling through a vast network of retail outlets, EDI is a critical part of their business operations to ensure accuracy, timeliness and traceability when dealing with their trading partners, ranging from large retailers such as Target to smaller retail stores. Peet’s relied on their partner with food & beverage industry expertise to find an easy-to-implement replacement solution to meet their EDI for Dynamics AX requirements, as after 18 months of trying to implement another EDI solution, they were at a standstill.

Specifically, Peet’s initial EDI solution could not meet the EDI specifications required by Target, putting the company in an undesirable position with one of its largest retailers…