Food and beverage manufacturers must find ways to satisfy customers yet operate profitably in spite of fluctuating consumer demand, strict government regulations, varying raw material variability and capacity constraints.  Process Industries for Microsoft Dynamics AX, Fullscope’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for the food and beverage manufacturing, delivers the capabilities needed to achieve compliance, efficiency and quality requirements, plus meet customer satisfaction and profitability goals.

Process Industries for Microsoft Dynamics AX helps food and beverage companies consistently meet quality, safety and compliance issues.  All standard processes are documented, and all operations and results are tracked and logged to support your detailed reporting requirements.  Features such as traceability, lot requirements, production statistics reporting, specification management and change management provide the control and predictability you need to detect and address exceptions early, and consistently produce the highest quality products.  Shelf life management and first-expire, first-out inventory control ensure you’ll use ingredients in the best sequence and avoid expiry loss.  By tracking items from cradle to grave, your company can implement effective recall procedures with complete forward and backward traceability of any material.  Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP software for food and beverage manufacturing addresses specific industry needs, while minimizing costs and maximizing productivity.

Slim margins are the norm for food and beverage companies, and savings of one hundredth of a penny per unit can have a dramatic impact on profitability.  Process Industries for Microsoft Dynamics AX can help you control costs and respect customer service levels by monitoring operations at a detailed level, keeping a close watch on yields and labor, tracking material usage, and planning production shifts to maximize capacity.

In the complex sales channels of food and beverage, small adjustments to pricing and promotional incentives, such as ad-hoc deals, significantly impact sales volumes and revenues.  Rebates and Trade Promotions functionality in Process Industries for Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP software for food and beverage manufacturers gives your sales and marketing team the flexibility to fine-tune promotions and share the information with manufacturing to achieve the ideal balance and meet corporate expectations.

The high perish-ability of raw food materials and ingredients poses many production planning and inventory management challenges.  Process Industries for Microsoft Dynamics AX can help you minimize over-runs and short runs, and use shelf-life tracking to take expiration dates into consideration during production and into the distribution process.  You can also centrally manage co-products and by-products in your formulas or recipes and always know the correct inventory status for any given item.  Flexible cost management features enable you to assign production and overhead costs to co-products and by-products as you see fit.

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