There is one question that everyone should be asking themselves, says Ian Rutherford, head of the SAP division at system integrator CSI. "If you come into work in the morning and find you've had a letter from the Food Standards Agency to say that you've got a problem with one of your products out in the market, would you comfortably walk over to your laptop and push a button or would you go into a blind panic?"

Infor's new version of its enterprise asset management (EAM) system, Infor EAM Enterprise Edition, includes built-in functionality specifically for manufacturing industries. It allows customers to maintain, manage and improve the performance of their capital asset infrastructure, including manufacturing equipment, fleets, and facilities.

Ian Macleod Distillers is one of Scotland's leading independent whisky providers. It produces and sells over 15M bottles of spirits a year.

Millitec Food Systems has designed a production planning and monitoring system called Inform specifically for sandwich maker Raynor Foods. Inform handles all aspects of production from order quantities and production speeds through to printing and applying labels. It gives Raynor the tools to improve the efficiency of its production and the ability to assess the impact of any changes.

CDC Factory claims to be the first packaged manufacturing operations management solution for food and beverage makers that integrates finite factory scheduling, manufacturing execution systems, performance management, quality, maintenance and data analysis.