ERP Solution for the Food Industry

The food and beverage industry is one of the most dynamic and detail-oriented sectors in India, driven largely by the country’s deep-rooted love for food. But how do you keep pace with such rapid changes?

In a nation with a vast population and ever-growing demands, adopting global business solutions becomes essential. ERP software tailored for food manufacturing and beverage distribution is designed specifically to handle rising demand and streamline operations.

Functional Coverage of Food & Beverage Solutions:

  • Complex & Multi-Level Formula and Recipe Tracking: Efficiently manage intricate recipes and formulas, ensuring accuracy and consistency in production.

  • Optimized Picking: Streamline order fulfillment with optimized picking processes, improving efficiency and reducing waste.

  • Co-Product/By-Product Management: Effectively track and manage co-products and by-products to maximize resource utilization and profitability.

  • Comprehensive Quality Parameters Management: Maintain high standards with robust quality management parameters, ensuring product safety and compliance.

  • Inventory Management with Make-to-Order Stock Scenario: Implement flexible inventory management tailored for make-to-order scenarios, enhancing responsiveness to customer demand.

  • Yield and Waste Management: Monitor and manage yield rates and waste, helping to improve efficiency and reduce losses throughout the production process.

  • Batch Scheduling and Planning as per Packing Sizes: Optimize batch scheduling and planning to align with packing sizes, ensuring timely delivery and efficient resource use.

  • Promotional Planning: Develop and manage promotional strategies effectively to boost sales and enhance customer engagement.

  • Financial Management with Costing and Budgeting: Gain insights into financial performance with comprehensive costing and budgeting tools, ensuring better financial control and planning.

ERP Features for Food & Beverage Industry

  • Comprehensive Recipe Management: Manage recipes with version tracking, approvals, and costing to ensure consistency and quality.

  • Multiple Packaging Options: Support for various packaging sizes to cater to different market demands.

  • Bi-Directional Traceability: Ensure complete traceability from vendors to customers and vice versa, enhancing transparency throughout the supply chain.

  • Instant Recall Functionality: Quickly initiate recalls to enhance responsiveness and facilitate faster audits.

  • Support for Re-Packaging and Kit Items: Manage re-packaging, splits, and kit items efficiently to optimize inventory usage.

  • Containerization: Enable dispensing into multiple pack configurations for flexible packaging solutions.

  • Automated Re-Ordering: Automatically reorder materials based on sales and inventory levels to maintain optimal stock.

  • Simultaneous Order Entry: Facilitate the entry of multiple orders at peak demand times to improve service levels.

  • Promotional Engagement: Attract more customers with a variety of promotional offers, special pricing, discounts, and more.

  • Quality Checks Across Supply Chain: Implement quality checks throughout the supply chain based on compliance and quality standards.

  • Intensive R&D Support: Conduct research and development using ‘what-if’ analyses on nutritional properties, weight, volume, and costs.

  • Material Substitution: Allow for substitutions to accommodate seasonal products, organics, and healthier variants.

  • Optimized Production Planning: Enhance production planning through improved forecasting, raw material planning, and scheduling.

  • Full Lot Tracking: Track material lots from receipt to manufacturing and final shipment to customers for complete visibility.

  • Regulatory Compliance Integration: Integrate capabilities to meet regulatory requirements for FDA, FISMA, FSSAI, Bioterrorism Act, HACCP, and good manufacturing practices.

  • Efficient Inventory Management: Manage inventory effectively across multiple locations, sites, and warehouses with varied classifications and pricing.

  • Shelf-Life Management: Track shelf-life with serialization, expiration dates, quarantines, and best-before dates (BBD).

  • Unit of Measure Handling: Effectively manage units of measure with conversion facilities for both weight and volume.

  • Consistent Quality Procurement: Source high-quality raw materials from certified vendors to ensure product integrity.

Food & Beverage Industry-Specific Reports

  • Yield Analysis Report for tracking spillage or losses
  • Product shelf life tracking reports
  • Schemes or offers wise revenue reports
  • Traceability reports from RM receipt to dispatch
  • Pre-Process, In-Process, Post Process, and Inventory QC Reports
  • Customer and vendor aging reports

Why ERP for the Food & Beverage Industry ?

  • Real-Time Monitoring of Resources
  • Application Integration
  • Accurate Analysis and Reports
  • Automated Operations
  • Customized Notifications
  • Workflow Management
  • Compliance
  • Supply Chain Management