ERP for Food and Beverage Manufacturing
Our FoodChainERP service provides functionality for food and beverage manufacturers to determine where to make products, on which resource, and to plan and sequence products correctly to pull variable cost out of the process. Read on to learn how FoodChainERP can help food and beverage manufacturers meet the challenges of regulatory compliance, traceability and recipe management.
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Regulatory Compliance
Food and beverage manufacturers are constantly seeking ways to reduce the costs of compliance with regulatory bodies and product specifications. FoodChainERP service enables manufacturers to keep finished goods in inventory at an absolute minimum through demand and inventory planning. The manufacturer is therefore better equipped to predict what they are able to sell and when they are going to sell it, then plan manufacturing accordingly to avoid accumulating and storing unnecessary, often perishable inventory.
FoodChainERP:
- provides full bi-directional traceability from source to consumption
- produces detailed audit trails of all transactions
- implements successful recalls, and
- authenticates operators for specific transactions
Traceability
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FoodChainERP offers full backward and forward lot traceability across the extended supply chain from supplier to ultimate customer. This traceability documents all the changes a product goes through from the time raw materials are received to the manufacturing, storage of the product and, ultimately, delivery to the customer site. FoodChainERP Lot Traceability monitors the product life cycle from raw materials to final product. Because FoodChainERP service is an integrated enterprise solution, the lot traceability is tightly integrated to all supply chain aspects, not to just one manufacturing location.
FoodChainERP:
- effectively tracks inventory movement across physical or virtual locations
- traces and quantifies data on materials and products from purchasing through conducts inspection manufacturing, stocking and sales, and
- defines custom fields to hold conformance details
Recipe Management
FoodChainERP defines the bill of material, routing and capacity in a single item. These elements are tied together in a recipe or formula. All the resources, materials and operations that go into producing a product based on a recipe are defined together, including: process, materials, labour, equipment and miscellaneous items such as utilities and water. These entities exist as tightly coupled stages rather than separate, vertical silos of information. FoodChainERP service provides the ability to plan based on code dates.
FoodChainERP:
- defines ingredient quantities such as quantity per, fixed quantities and wet weight percentages
- manages controlled substances such as cannabis, making recipe management, control and safety even more important
- enables quick and easy replacement of ingredients with the where-used query and substitution facility
- tracks variances, expiration dates and waste, and
- allows for multiple revisions and releases of recipes
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