The food and beverage processing and distribution industries are defined by strict compliance standards, low profit margins, intense competition, and high customer expectations. You need quick and effective ordering processes to understand and address customer needs quickly. You also want the flexibility to respond to changing customer demands and market trends.
Microsoft Dynamics GP offers powerful, integrated management solutions for companies in the food and beverage processing and distribution industries. These solutions can help you succeed by speeding products from supplier to the store shelf, removing waste from operations, reducing operational costs, increasing buyer and consumer confidence, supporting your business liability protection, enhancing identification of your product’s origin or processing and distribution path,and meeting the demands of your customers.
Why Dynamics GP for the food and beverage industry?
It meets your industry specific requirements:
- Traceability - Automate product "one up/one down" tracking and tracing from the processor to the retailer in full compliance with Canadian Food Traceability Data Standard (CFTDS) and as an essential element of your Recall Program.
- Country of Origin Labelling (COOL) - (COOL) requirements for those processors and distributors exporting their product into the United States are fully supported within Dynamics GP.
- Lot Expiration/Shelf Life Management – Many food processors and distributors struggle with managing inventory levels to supply production and customers and maintain a reasonable shelf life. This can result in significant costs related to spoilage. GP enables tracking lot expiration dates and reporting those lots approaching the end of their useful life thereby reducing the likelihood of these losses. Dynamics GP will help maintain proper rotation of inventory (i.e. first in, first out) to prevent or minimize food damage, contamination and spoilage.
- GMP and HACCP Support - GP provides full support for your Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) system documentation control and recordkeeping needs. It may be as generic as keeping documents and records current, or as specific as documenting results of CCPs monitoring, recording cooking temperatures for a specific batch or chemical concentration of sanitizing solutions, or tracking results of microbiological tests performed on final product.
It streamlines your business processes:
- Automate critical business processes from order capture to inventory replenishment and reduce wasteful activities
- Deliver real-time business intelligence and alerts on the status of the business to management and customers
- Speed order picking by 2X to 6X with powerful, integrated Automatic Data Collection (ADC) solutions
It enhances your responsiveness
- Generate real-time reports and alerts for management, customers and vendors
- Track and easily adapt to changing customer demand
- Coordinate communications when several employees are interacting with a customer across multiple channels
- Enable customer self-service through Web portals
Next Steps
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