As a food manufacturer, you have many challenges, including:
- Volatile ingredient prices
- Dependence on large customers
- Highly competitive industry
- Food contamination
- Food recalls
To meet these challenges, you (as a food manufacturer) need to be able to:
- Improve decision-making capacity and increase reactivity to your markets
- Develop relationships with external partners to improve productivity and responsiveness ─ ultimately enhancing customer satisfaction
- Analyze business performance on the fly
- Dig into anomalies and quickly react to changing business conditions
- Define your own rules and procedures for handling significant or unusual events
Sage ERP X3 Process Manufacturing Suite is a complete system that helps process manufacturers increase profitability and productivity by enabling you to do all of the above. In addition, Sage ERP X3 can help your business grow and become more efficient with the following capabilities:
Formula and Recipe Management
Food manufacturers understand that having a well-managed recipe and formula system decreases training time and increases productivity. Keep all of your information up-to-date with Sage ERP X3’s fully integrated system which allows your information to evolve in real-time.
Fully Integrated Quality Control
Quality control can make or break your business. Sage ERP X3 delivers a fully integrated quality control process that allows you to conduct inspections at key points throughout your packaging and production processes, then to automatically quarantine suspicious or substandard items for further inspection or disposal.
Inventory Management
Sage ERP X3’s inventory management capabilities give you real-time control over key supply chain processes. Achieve breakthrough efficiencies with such features as demand-based stock replenishment, advanced bin and lot management and real-time inventory tracking.
Multi-Year Historical Transaction Archiving
Sales trends change and so does commodities pricing, and as a food manufacturer you need to be able to notice your business patterns even when everything else is in flux. Sage ERP X3 allows you to track and archive all of your transactions over multi-year spans, so that you can easily see a realistic and stable history of your business, allowing you to better adapt to the changes in your business’s future.
Manufacturing Software
Designed for food manufacturing, Sage ERP X3 allows you to optimize all aspects of your business with packaging management, shelf-life tracking. Plus, with the enhanced management features that Sage ERP X3 can offer you, you’ll reduce waste and manage your by-products easily and efficiently.
Shipping Integration and Logistics
The food manufacturing process doesn’t end with product creation, so why should your software? Sage ERP X3’s fully integrated shipping and logistics functions help you to achieve a consistent flow of information from sales, finance, CRM, and purchasing, all of which is propagated in real-time, so that up-to-the-minute information is available when you need it.
Contact our Sage ERP X3 Team
If you would like to learn more about Sage ERP X3 and how it can help food manufacturers, please contact us online.