Solution overview
The ANEGIS solution for food companies helps businesses achieve compliance, efficiency and quality requirements. Use robust tools to create and manage recipes and formulas and accurately address catch weight within the enterprise resource planning system. With strong core functionality to handle stock purchasing, traceability, logistics, trade and finance, Dynamics 365 for Food offers the perfect balance of efficiency and compliance.
With Dynamics 365 for Food, your business can...
- Assign user-defined quality statuses to prevent specific batches from being processed into production
- Assign characteristics to batches including expiration and best-before dates, fat and moisture rates
- Track and trace produce with complete visibility of all raw materials and semi-products through all stages of the supply chain, using automated, electronic processes
- Register and monitor customer and vendor specific best-before dates and ensure that products are picked based on the shortest expiration date of delivery (FEFO)
- Improve delivery productivity with support for static and ad hoc routes, load sequencing, route optimisation, distribution centres and vendor-managed inventory
- Integrate processes across departments – purchasing, production, sales, accounting – maintaining cost control on all commodities at critical supply chain points
- Adjust formulas dynamically based on predefined ratios and scaling and set qualitative and quantitative lot and product attributes that can be inherited by the finished item
- Plan and track co-products and by-products and credit costs and burdens to the finished items
- Use integrated Power BI, the industry-leading business intelligence solution, to monitor and analyse production costs for each component of multi-level formulas and recipes
Optimise production scheduling
Manual production scheduling is prone to error and inefficiency. With the automated capabilities of Dynamics 365 for Food, producers can now ensure maximum yields from available raw materials.
Errors are avoided and schedule changes are handled efficiently with minimum downtime for cleaning and changeover. Multiple production strategies can be executed including configure-to-order, assemble-to-order, make-to-stock and make-to-order. The built-in flexibility enables agile adjustment to changes in demand.
Reduce costs
With advanced shelf-life tracking and planning tools you can distribute inventory in optimal sequence and eliminate waste.
The ability to monitor operations at a detailed level, tracking material usage and yields, allows you to maximise capacity as well as rapidly optimise product mix to meet changing demand. Critical decision making is enhanced with the sophisticated predictive analytics and machine learning capabilities of the Microsoft platform to control costs and maintain margins.
Challenges
Complex production processes, strict sanitary and hygiene regulations, and quality management.
Use ERP modules to track raw material inventory, plan production, control quality, and manage production flow.
In the food and beverage industry, product quality is crucial.
Implement a Quality Management System (QMS) module that enables quality control, defect tracking, and complaint management.
Strict adherence to product expiry dates and tracking production history.
An ERP module that allows tracking of expiry dates, managing batch numbers, and automatically alerts about upcoming expiry dates.
Complex supply chain, from raw materials to finished products.
Use a Supply Chain Management (SCM) module to closely monitor deliveries, forecast demand, and optimize logistics.
Tracking product history from production to sale.
Integration with traceability systems, such as RFID or barcodes, to enable complete tracking of products.
Advantages
An ERP allows for the collection of all business data in one place. This means that information about production, inventory, orders, deliveries, and finances is available in a unified environment. This helps to avoid data fragmentation and provides better control over processes.
An ERP integrates various departments of the company, such as production, logistics, finance, and sales. A shared platform facilitates communication and tracking of project statuses. This contributes to better coordination of activities in the food and beverage industry.
An ERP grows with your business. Whether you are a small manufacturer or a large distributor, you can tailor the system's functionalities to your needs. This is important, especially in the dynamic food industry where changes are frequent.
Traditional tasks such as inventory management, production monitoring, and order processing can be time-consuming and prone to errors. An ERP enables the automation of these processes, which increases work efficiency. This allows employees to focus on more valuable tasks.
Data collected in an ERP is structured and uniform. This facilitates analysis, report generation, and making informed business decisions. You can better understand your processes, identify trends, and respond to market changes.
An ERP enables tracking of payments, invoices, and liabilities. This provides better control over the company's finances. Automation of accounting processes reduces the risk of errors and speeds up settlements.
