Food & Beverage Industry ERP – eFood
Fact: the food and beverage industry has changed dramatically. Consumers want more nutritional and quality information in more detail and more often. To stay ahead of the growing competition, you’ll need to streamline costing, inventory tracking, production control, and vendor management with a smart food and beverage ERP solution.
Enter eFood – Powered by Microsoft Dynamics
eSoftware Professionals has created eFood – powered by Microsoft Dynamics NAV. eFood is a food and beverage ERP software system specifically designed for companies in the food and beverage industry. It helps you consolidate multiple “islands” of data that currently exist as separate systems.
eFood, our food and beverage ERP system helps in the following areas:
The Basics
To help your business run more smoothly, you need a solid center. eFood streamlines all the fundamental elements that a business requires such as Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), Human Resources (HR), General Ledger (GL), fixed assets, inventory management, purchasing, receiving, sales, shipping, production management, quality management, vendor management and more. Finally, all your data silos will be under one structure!
Compliance, Recalls, Traceability
Compliance, recalls, and traceability are the most crucial areas for you to control – especially with new regulations. eFood provides a Quality Testing and Management system for all your in-house tests and tracking results from outside labs. Quarantine functionality allows you to control what types of transactions can be performed for on-hold batches. It provides the ability to create Certificates of Analysis, Nutrient Declarations, and to meet label generation requirements – and in the unfortunate event you have to do a recall, eFood can run an end-product or ingredient-based recall in minutes or even seconds!
Distribution
The Food and Beverage industry has unique distribution requirements: commodity pricing, catch weights, direct store delivery, expiry, FIFO, vendor payment options, customer pricing options, trade spend and promotion tracking. eFood gives you the tools to manage these unique aspects without slowing down your processes or detracting from your primary goal – the efficient movement and trade of product.
Your production process may start with the grading of incoming product, or even earlier at the Research and Development (R&D) stage. Either way eFood has the tools to keep your processes under control. With eFood, you can grade and disposition incoming product for both production and vendor payment purposes. You’ll be able to follow the entire process from ingredients to finished products on specific pallets with or without barcode identification. R&D samples, small batch runs and initial plant trials can be handled separately from the rest of production. eFood brings your entire production process under one system to give you the efficiency boost and information visibility you need.
Strategy and Managing Growth
The good thing about rapid industry changes is that they create opportunity. Management equipped with the right information and tools can grow their client base significantly and outpace the competition. eFood provides dashboard and workstation views for different roles in the company so that relevant data is always available. eFood empowers end-users with information to make them self-sufficient within their role. Executives have summary metric information with the ability to drill down and see what it comprises at an operational level. The various tools combine to provide a level of efficiency and visibility beyond other ERP systems – and it is all based on the low-risk Microsoft technology adopted by over 75,000 companies!
