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Food & Beverage Industry Overview
The food and beverage industry has a new set of requirements for success. Chief among these is making certain that information technology is able to dispense needed information rapidly, and to the people who need it. Shifts in the regulatory environment, and recent events involving food safety, have made more incumbent than ever for the manufacturer/distributor to remain responsive to a sea of different concerns. As an added challenge the palate and expectations of consumers have shifted, evolved, become ever more demanding. Retailers have responded to this by making ever greater upstream demands.
As a result, the food and beverage company is in the difficult position of having to do more than ever before and to do things differently, faster, more efficiently, and with fewer resources than ever before. |
Food & Beverage Industry Challenges:
- Recipe/Formula Tracking/Manufacturing
- Formula Costing and R& D
- Laboratory and Nutritional Analysis and Calculations
- Variable customer requirements
- Lot traceability and recall reporting
- Reduced inventory levels and inventory management challenges
- Ever-changing schedules and shorter production runs
- Short 'shelf life' of raw food materials
- Customers want more variety and innovation
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- Faster cycle times and more communication
- Supply chain collaboration with other food manufacturers and distributors is critical
- Increased levels of regulation in the form of quality, documentation and traceability
- Quality Control & Inspection
- Low profit margins
- Inconsistent quality of raw
materials necessitating dynamic recipes and
variable processes
- Forecasting in the final stages of production center around packaging size
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Summitt Business Solutions: Provides Business Software Management Solutions for Food & Beverage Industry Challenges
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| Sage PFW manufacturing provides powerful tools for ensuring the maintenance of high product quality standards, such as: Powerful computerized Formulation laboratory, comparative physical properties analysis, Comprehensive vendor quality analysis, Multiple lot tracking methodologies, Quarantine and expiration date control, Complete QC data history maintenance, Full-function nutritional labeling capability. |
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| The SYSPRO suite offers food manufacturers a number of benefits and functionality that will serve to make day-to-day operations easier, quicker, and more sophisticated. SYSPRO provides, Material Variability, Dynamic Formula/Recipe Adjustment, Quality Control, Production Scheduling |
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Formulator for the Food Technologist, provides a dynamic set of calculation and data manipulation tools to aid in the development and testing of new batch formulas, testing of new materials and improvement of current formula performance. The data can be integrated with most transactional ERPprograms
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