Apollo ERP X for the Food & Beverage Manufacturing Industry
As a food and beverage manufacturer, processor or distributor, your company faces challenges that most manufacturers don't. This includes managing legal mandates and stringent quality control standards as well as granular tracking of ingredients and products. Not only do you have to fill customer orders efficiently, control inventory, plan efficient production and manage recipes in a manner that minimizes waste, you must also compete in an ever-growing global environment that can include dozens or more regulatory standards all different from each other.
Having the exact information at the exact moment for the purposes of compliance reporting can involve a tremendous amount of time-consuming labour. With Apollo ERP X, we can help you automate your compliance by allowing for a convenient and efficient way to gather and monitor relevant process information and eliminate many manual processes. Additionally, to help minimize the risks of product recalls, the Apollo ERP X software platform for food and beverage manufacturers provides forward and backward lot traceability for each ingredient and final product.
The Unique Challenges for the Food & Beverage Manufacturing Industry
NTS Apollo understands the unique risks of manufacturing food and beverages. Even one tainted batch or lot can result in litigation, bad publicity and recall costs that can seriously impact a company's reputation and even threaten it's existence. The complexity of complying with dozens and sometimes hundreds of regulations adds complexity, which simply means additional costs. The real challenge that today's food and beverage manufacturer faces is how to meet the regulatory requirements, provide a 100% safe food supply, improve business and operational efficiencies and make a profit, all under the downward price pressures from customers and competitors.
One clear answer is the Apollo ERP X software platform. It's been designed and refined to meet the rigorous demands of an industry where safety and quality are the number one priority. Once specific safety standards have been met, the focus turns to increasing productivity across your entire organization. This is where the entirety of the integrated Apollo ERP X software solution truly shines.
Through over 25 years of refinement, the Apollo ERP X software platform has grown to help food and beverage manufacturers of all sizes deal with a myriad of challenges, often not found in other manufacturing environments.
- Multi-level Batch and lot tracking
- Traceability - The capability to track expiration dates, shelf-life on various products and individual ingredients from origin to final customer.
- Complicated multi-level nested BOMs (Bill of Materials)
- Capacity planning for massive quantities
- Complicated unit conversions that involve intricate recipe structures
- Recipe planning is absolute and percentage of units
- Highly stringent quality controls, compliance rules, and regulatory pressure
- Control quality process every step of the way using blocking and unblocking controls
- First in, first out production and shipping scheduling
- Individual customer quality control standards that require specific testing procedures
- Individual customer and retailer packaging and labeling and catch-weight labeling
- Reducing waste and material consumption
- Greater visibility of operational shop floor performance
- EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) required to communicate efficiently with customers and suppliers
- Just-in-time delivery of ingredients or raw materials
- Tracking energy, production, transportation and raw material costs.
How Apollo ERP X Software Meets and Exceeds the Demands of the Food & Beverage Manufacturing Industry
At the end of the day, an investment in any ERP software platform should see an almost immediate quantifiable result. This ROI is readily seen in areas such as revenue growth, improved productivity, decreased machine and operator idle times as well as improved product quality, production flexibility, and profitability. As your manufacturing priorities constantly change based on customer demand and input, Apollo ERP X is flexible enough to keep up with complex operations.
The Return on Investment with Apollo ERP X
At the end of the day, an investment in any ERP software platform should see an almost immediate quantifiable result. This ROI is readily seen in areas such as revenue growth, improved productivity, decreased machine and operator idle times as well as improved product quality, production flexibility, and profitability. As your manufacturing priorities constantly change based on customer demand and input, Apollo ERP X is flexible enough to keep up with complex operations.
The Benefits of Apollo ERP X as your Food Manufacturing Management Software
With Apollo ERP X as your solution, your food manufacturing, and processing business should expect to see gains in a wide variety of critical areas including: :
- The ability to change recipes without any limitations on formula definitions
- The ability to make changes to batch information at will
- Batch tickets for recipes allow the intermingling of instructions with ingredients allowing operators to efficiently and properly run the batch
- Labeling automation to eliminate labeling mistakes and ruined product lots
- Improved production efficiencies across your entire shop floor
- Instantaneous access to detailed data in the event of a recall
- Reduced raw material shortages
- Improved purchasing efficiency
- Reduced material waste
- Reduced operator and machine downtimes
- A reduction in production delays
- Global dashboards that provide business intelligence for better decision making
- Staff are freed up from mundane tasks
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