Food & Beverage Distribution

Creating Safety and Efficiency for Greater Profitability

Microsoft Dynamics helps improve food and beverage distributors’ ability to meet retailers’ demands by integrating RFID solutions, automatic track and trace capabilities, shelf life and customer-specific requests with accounting, warehousing, and procurement applications. These solutions can help lower the cost of operations by enabling distributors to lower inventory, reduce spoilage, and significantly improve customer satisfaction.

Based on the enormous external pressures facing the Food & Beverage industry; including greater dependence on fewer but larger customers, increasing raw material costs, limited supplies, increasing labeling costs, the shift in consumer diet demands and product preferences the #1 factor is currently food safety. The No. 1 ranking is understandable based on the number of media publicized cases of Salmonella, E. coli, and mad cow disease. And regardless of company size food safety compliance applies to all. Regulations demand the collection, organization, and retrieval of information and in order to meet these requirements reliance on computer systems is necessary with the core compliance effort being a company’s enterprise resource planning (ERP). With Microsoft Dynamics a distributor can look at compliance regulations as an opportunity. The increased insight and understanding into all levels of the business processes required for compliance deliver a head start toward business improvement. In the highly competitive Food and Beverage market, competitive gain is often tied to how well the business is managed and Microsoft Dynamics delivers with familiar and actionable tools.

Microsoft Dynamics helps enable food and beverage distributors to:
  • Improve Operations and Reduce Costs
    • Streamline business systems, which:
      • Speeds order picking by 2X to 6X with powerful and integrated Automatic Data Collection (ADC) solutions
      • Allows distributors to significantly increase volume without increasing the size of the building or staff
      • Delivers real-time reports and alerts to management and retailers on the status of critical business status
    • Create accurate demand-forecasting models that lower inventory and improve customer service
    • Start new operations quickly with fast implementation of ERP and the rest of their technology solutions
    • Deliver business-wide reports to understand where savings can be found and where customers are being serviced most effectively
  • Develop Profitable Customer Relationships
    • Automatically track and trace products from the manufacturer to the retailer
    • Manage manufacturer promotions
    • Increase flexibility of systems to:
      • Efficiently deliver on customer demands such as specific packaging, marking, and shipping requirements
      • Implement customer-specific technology and reporting requests
      • Quickly customize business reports required to make decisions needed for improved business performance
    • Speed critical answers to customers with low-cost, easy-to-implement Web-based systems
    • Improve customer support by effectively tracking and monitoring customer needs and request
Microsoft Dynamics is a familiar choice with distribution-focused companies that supports your business goals, internal needs and external requirements. With Microsoft Dynamics and Systematica you no longer have to be a large organization to enjoy the big-league advantages of powerful business-driving applications. Contact us today to determine how best Microsoft Dynamics can be customized to meet a variety of needs of your needs.

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