By Share-ify

Share-ify, the industry-leading, secure, private network for trading partners and customers to share business information, has announced its 2023 results with a 35 percent increase in sales year over year and a forecast that 2024 will be even better.

“I am proud of our amazing team that is all based in the U.S. We have a lot to be thankful for,” stated Ernesto Nardone, CEO of Share-ify. “We have the best staff on earth, and they take great strides to make sure our customers are happy. Our results demonstrate how important that is.”

Share-ify’s platform includes over 17,000 companies across 59 countries, including 50 percent of the top four distributors in the U.S. and many of the top 100 restaurant chains in the industry.

“We have built this company brick by brick on the premise that service must come first. Our customers see that and stay with us as a result,” says Mr. Nardone.

Mr. Nardone has been CEO of Share-ify since 2017, when Share-ify was spun out to become its own company. He spent 22 years at IBM and now puts to use all he learned from his Fortune 100 company experience. “I am grateful for my time with such an industry-leading company, but now my time is spent helping address the challenges of a very complex food supply chain.”

After joining Share-ify, Mr. Nardone assembled an executive team of eight individuals across every segment of the supply chain: from growers/packers/shippers to distributors to restaurants and retail. Share-ify executives have worked among the Fortune 500 all the way to small growers/packers/shippers, and, on average, have over 25 years of industry experience.

FSMA 204 and the Need for Affordable Solutions

With the highly anticipated compliance date of January 20, 2026 fast approaching, FSMA 204 is driving companies to adopt industry standards for traceability. Produce industry supply chains members are focused on creating and implementing their FSMA 204 plans.

A long list of designated foods will have new recordkeeping requirements, along with food tracing recordkeeping requirements. Fresh produce affected items includes leafy greens, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, herbs, melons, sprouts, tropical fruits (mango, papaya, mamey, guava, lychee, jackfruit, and starfruit), and fresh-cut fruits and vegetables.

To satisfy the FSMA 204 federal requirement, a total solution needs to address four elements (depending on the type of Critical Tracking Event):

• Master data management
• Data collection (API/EDI or scanning)
• Data publishing
• Label printing.

Share-ify can help with one, some, or all of these needs for FSMA 204 compliance.

Data publishing is a key hurdle for many. Share-ify is now marketing its FSMA 204 offering, which includes an affordable price tag for small businesses.

“Our goal was to create a solution that is cheaper than a cell phone for small businesses,” stated Angela Nardone, Chief Operating Officer and Head of Product Management. “Traceability is clearly important, and only possible if we can make solutions easy to implement and affordable for everyone, especially small businesses that make up over 80 percent or more of the supply chain.”

Mrs. Nardone explained the need for small companies with limited infrastructure to have an affordable option to send and receive information electronically with larger companies. “When we work with our largest customers, their issue is often getting the data from supply chain partners with minimal need to scan cases. With our smallest customers, the goal is to help them get all of the data electronically to submit to their trading partners quickly and easily. We cannot just solve the problem of one party and not the other, and hope to have traceability.”

Companies that are finding the most difficult time addressing FSMA 204 often have deferred the implementation of other needed infrastructure and systems that would undoubtedly help with FSMA 204 rollout.

“Share-ify offers supplier management, product specification management, product recall, product quality inspections, and production control systems to assist companies that are trying to adopt more robust processes for food safety and quality assurance,” explains Mrs. Nardone.

Share-ify Solutions

Share-ify’s solutions include:

Supplier and Vendor Management. Share-ify provides a private, online, professional network for maintaining all the details and documents related to Supplier and Vendor Management and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Share-ify subscribers can now manage regulatory compliance, quality assurance, quality control, occupational hazard, supply chain management, food safety, and regulatory standards all in one place, with both customers and suppliers.

Ver-ify. A solution that assists Quality Control, Sales, and Purchasing teams to effectively evaluate product quality and communicate in real time. The Ver-ify system allows companies to integrate with trading partners more fully throughout the supply chain with mobile product inspections. Using a tablet device, companies can take pictures and evaluate attributes based on the specific products. Each inspection can be tailored to a company’s exact requirements and be based on industry or government standards programs.

Alert-ify. A product recall and market withdrawal solution to help effectively remove product from the supply chain in hours or minutes (as opposed to days or weeks), with substantially less resources.

Work-ify (QFSM). Work-ify enables companies to more effectively manage production controls. Work-ify helps transition companies to paperless production logs for quality assurance, food safety, maintenance, and other prerequisite programs (PRPs). QFSM helps both large and small companies take traditionally paper-based systems for food safety and quality assurance logs and transition to a mobile data collection and cloud-based management platform for HACCP and similar programs. QFSM helps companies implement real-time quality assurance and food safety management so that each plant operates consistently to corporate plans.

Share-ify PLM. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) helps align departments, teams, and vendors with complex product information, artwork, product engineering, and manufacturing workflows to efficiently bring a product to market and follow it through its lifecycle. Share-ify PLM allows companies to connect people, processes, and data across the entire product lifecycle to one safe, centralized location. Everyone in the lifecycle chain is on the same page, sharing up-to-date information.

To set up a demonstration or request more information, visit our website at www.share-ify.com.