6 Key Food and Beverage challenges SYSPRO can help you resolve:
Comply with food safety regulations
To meet the stringent requirements of the Food Safety Modernization Act and the Safe Quality Food Standards, companies must be able to identify and trace every single ingredient consumed in the manufacturing process:
- From receipt through processing, packaging, and shipping, to the exact customer location
- Provide full bi-directional traceability from source to consumption
- Produce detailed audit trails of all transactions
- Implement successful recalls
- Authenticate operators for specific transactions
Manage product and raw material traceability
- A strong driver in this industry is a traceability system, in case of a failure in the internal food safety standards
- The requirements for the Traceability system are speed and accuracy – the company must be able to trace every part of a batch that came out of the factory to each customer as soon as possible after receiving a notification of a food safety failure. Targets are now less than one hour!
- In summary, a large part of the daily management function is to improve risk management – one bad batch (in or out) can destroy the brand
- The regulations guide areas requiring extra focus, but ultimately, the management team need to fully understand their risks and be fully in control of all of their processes all day long
Accurately Record Recipes or Formulas
- Define ingredient quantities such as quantity per, fixed quantities and wet weight percentages
- Where-used query and substitution facility enables quick and easy replacement of ingredients
- Track variances and waste
- Allow for multiple revisions and releases of recipes
Quality control of the incoming raw materials
- A key driver in this industry is the quality control of the incoming raw materials as well as the respective suppliers – the quality has to be maintained to ensure that the recipe remains the same, but through the same suppliers at the agreed prices
- Selling prices are fairly static which therefore requires close control of the costs of the incoming raw materials
- Allergen controls are becoming more and more prominent requiring tighter controls and even separation of plants to avoid cross-contamination
Manage complex production recipes
- SYSPRO’s multi-level bill of materials functionality enables the definition of complex production recipes of up to 15 levels per route, and 10 routes per finished product
- Control over recipe changes is seamlessly handled by the Engineering Change Control module, while a where-used query and substitution facility enables quick and easy replacement of ingredients
- The Work in Progress module enables seamless ingredient substitution where actual ingredients differ from planned. Furthermore, where intermediate or finished products differ from planned, the Work in Progress inspection functionality enables receipting of these products as alternate stock codes, or into alternate warehouses or bins
Manage a complex global supply chain
- To enable you to fine-tune the balance between supply and demand SYSPRO fosters informed decision-making, thereby helping you to meet the challenges of supply chain management and synchronization in a dynamic and complex global environment.
- Food manufacturers using SYSPRO are able to tighten cost controls, know exactly how each product is designed and manufactured, trace a product from farm to fork (and back again, when necessary) – all at the click of a button. With full integration of Bill of Materials, Estimation, Process Modeling, Work in Progress, Barcode Scanning and Workflow Services, all of these activities can be automated.