Whether our customers are producing gourmet jams, biomedical liquids, or distributing fresh produce-their demand for industry-focused solutions can only be met by industry-specific vertical solutions developed by industry experts.
Food Processing
Food Distribution
Chemical Processing


Columbus IT understands the unique demands of the vertical industries we specialize in. Columbus IT's VerticalSoft Product Suite targets the following:

VerticalSoft Food Manufacturing for Food Processors:
SIC Code 20,000-20,999


Food processing covers a wide range of food companies. We recognize that there are sub-verticals within food processing including:

Prepared Foods
Meat
Dairy/Egg and Egg products
AG Produce
Beverage
Bakery
Nut Processing
Chesse Processing
Frozen Foods

The unique demands of recipe formulization, brand control and private label, product profitability, inventory control, production planning, and quality control are fundamental to all organizations. Some companies are faced with complex sales promotions, co-product/by product requirements, catch weight, shop floor and bar-coding environments, and commodity pricing issues. Others need truly specialized features such as Patron Accounting for the Dairy industry, USDA rollback pricing for the Meat industry, and Grower Accounting for the AG industry. VerticalSoft Food Manufacturing has zeroed in on each industry to make sure your needs are addressed for your industry.




VerticalSoft Food Distribution for Food Distributors:
SIC Code 51,400-51,499


Fresh Foods
Terminal Market
Cash Drawer
Food Service
Grower Accounting
Produce Distribution
Agricultural

The food distribution enterprise solution provides all of the capabilities today's distributors rely on: truck routing, driver assignments, increasingly complex marketing plans, bill-backs, accruals, commissions, lot tracking, recall requirements, contract pricing, standing order guides and inventory control.


VerticalSoft Chemical Processing for Chemical Processors and Distributors:
SIC Code 28,000-28,999


Adhesive
Biotech Manufacturing
Paint
Fertilizer
Cosmetics
Produce Distribution
Agricultural
Chemical processors require document management, regulatory compliance, process formulization, quality control, process control, real-time financial analysis and more. Increasingly demanding customers and HACCP requirements make a vertical solution designed specifically for the chemical processor imperative to provide the validation and audit activities throughout the manufacturing and distribution cycles.

Chemical Distributors require increasing control over audit trails, recall, container tracking, regulatory compliance, validation, distribution planning and inventory management. Now, there is one integrated solution to meet the needs of the chemical distributor.