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Supply chain disruptions can strike anytime, often when least expected, creating uncertainty for businesses. Many companies are unprepared to handle large-scale, unplanned disruptions. Factors like human error or natural disasters can delay products from reaching the market, impacting essentials such as getting food on tables and medicine to those who need it. Additionally, challenges like labor shortages, geopolitical tensions, and global events further slow down manufacturing and distribution processes. Discover how enterprise label management can help your business stay strong during disasters.
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Every business and disaster is unique. This blog highlights key considerations for creating or updating your business continuity plans. Learn what to consider to ensure business continuity for labeling and label printing disaster recovery.
Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR), helps to mitigate the negative effects of a significant disastrous event to keep a business operational through the disruption. At a high level, disaster recovery is focused on tools and procedures to enable the recovery or continuation of vital technology infrastructure, while business continuity is focused on the plan and actions to take during a disaster to maintain operations. Emergency events include natural disasters, a business crisis, pandemic, workplace violence, or any event that results in a disruption that may stop or significantly impact successful business operations.
Many business process disruptions occur in the event of a disaster. Having a BCDR plan is key for backup and disaster recovery during critical business operations. Here is a step-by-step guide to developing a successful BCDR plan.
With a BCDR plan in place, your business can minimize downtime and ensure a fast, efficient recovery from disruptions.
When manufacturers are running outdated of inefficient labeling processes, recovering from a disaster has its challenges. Some of the most common disruptions we see are primary servers going down, planned or unplanned system maintenance, and computer crashes.
You can lean on your technology partners and experts, like TEKLYNX, when disruptions occur. Having the right team in place for your labeling environment, with experience in recovering label management systems or consulting with you on disaster recovery for your organization's labeling environment, is essential to maintain business operations when the unexpected happens.
We have also implemented our solutions in high availability (HA) manufacturing environments. HA environments or systems are well-tested and dependable enough to operate continuously to avoid failure. To reduce interruptions and downtime, it is essential to be ready for unexpected events that can bring down servers.
Dot Foods is the largest food industry redistributor in North America and has been helping companies move food products more efficiently and cost-effectively from the manufacturer to distributor since 1960. Dot Foods helps 1,100 food manufacturers within their 14 distribution centers across North America.
Dot Foods partnered with the TEKLYNX Enterprise Team to identify CODESOFT and SENTINEL as the ideal solution. This combination enabled Dot Foods to meet internal labeling security requirements, maintain a HA environment, and automate printing across their extensive fleet of 300+ printers. Dot Foods also received TEKLYNX' world-class technical and customer support throughout the implementation process and beyond.
With their newly implemented SENTINEL automated label printing solution, Dot Foods was able to maintain their HA environment and gain reliability with their new labeling software in all 14 distribution centers across North America. Read the full case study.
Business continuity refers to the way a business maintains operations during a time of technological malfunction or outage. In our case, disaster recovery for labeling refers to the way labeling software applications are restored following a damaging event.
As a first step, inventory what you have and where you have it installed – locally, nationally, or globally – and document your licensing information. Know the serial numbers, versions, the workstations or networks it’s installed on, servers, authorized users, and system integrations. If you know the what, where, and who, you’ll have a better understanding of how a disaster will impact workflows to be able to recover quickly.
Once you have a BCDR plan, then it’s time to see how labeling software and automation tools can strengthen your strategy.
Using one or more of these strategies can help prepare your labeling system for unexpected issues.
Our support team works hard to make sure our customers are taken care of. Get in touch with TEKLYNX to learn more about how our enterprise solutions support label printing disaster recovery. Regardless of whether you are considering TEKLYNX for the first time or you have been a long-time customer, we’re here for you. For TEKLYNX customers in other regions, view global locations for contacts in your region.
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Jenna Wagner, Global Marketing Director, is a successful strategic marketing executive with over 20 years of marketing experience in software technology and consulting services. She is a creative, dynamic, results-driven leader who possesses a passion for developing her teams. She leverages her deep understanding of the solutions and industries she serves to deliver impactful customer value throughout the global supply chain to help organizations barcode better.
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