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Food & Beverage Manufacturing

Full Operational Visibility

Microsoft Dynamics and Systematica Inc. utilize familiar desktop applications that provide an excellent customer experience and help lower total cost of ownership while meeting government regulations, responding quickly to customers through real-time business intelligence and readily actionable work flows, deliver true plant-floor intelligence, gain visibility across the global supply chain, and employ mobility solutions that can help grow your Food & Beverage manufacturing business.

The goal of Microsoft Dynamics and Systematica Inc is to help you and your employees speed the time from concept to shelf, remove waste from operations, and meet new demands from large retailers meeting the needs of key target roles in your organization:

Engineers/Product Development will be enabled to:
  • Collaborate globally on recipes, formulas, and packaging to support 24-hour engineering cycles
  • Utilize real-time sales information to identify trends and opportunities for new products
  • Engage with manufacturing as the product is being built or months in advance
  • Utilize powerful project management tools integrated into back office systems
  • Utilize intelligent knowledge management to identify opportunities for high-quality component and process re-use
  • Utilize a technology stack (from Microsoft) used for general collaboration, plant floor automation and cross-company visibility solutions
  • Enable agility and innovation
Operations Management/Finance will be enabled to:
  • Provide retailers with the transparency they need into inventory and product availability and deliver with integrated RFID and bar code systems.
  • Facilitate traceability through birth histories that identify every action taken for a specific component for a particular order
  • Improve productivity and return on assets (ROA) with full visibility across processes, lines, departments, plants, outsourced operations, and throughout the global supply network
  • Improve plant-floor accountability through implementing metric-setting and tracking for individual plant floor assets and processes
  • Increase flexibility and speed by leveraging digital simulations and intelligent systems to optimize process and material flows
  • Improve quality through real-time intelligence and alerts to enable proactive responses and support good decisions
  • Support lean processes for manufacturing systems that also are completely integrated with financial and reporting
  • Provide industry-specific KPIs and benchmarks
Sales, Marketing and Service Management will be enabled to:
  • Have seamless communication between retailers and themselves, enabling faster, more responsive service
  • Deliver 24x7 data access to customers on key issues such as order status, product availability, and detailed product information
  • Become a trusted advisor with a comprehensive view of each customer to assist in customer service coordination and keep profitability high
  • Share information with improved security and freely utilize easy-to-use and known desktop tools
Operations, Purchasing and Supply Chain Management will be enabled to:
  • Utilize technology solutions that support a Demand Driven Supply Network (DDSN) to respond quickly to real-time customer demand signals
  • Implement emerging RFID technologies along with global data synchronization and vendor-managed inventories
  • Use current desktop tools to see deeper into their supply chain
  • Use bar code, mobility devices, and radio frequency identification (RFID) to provide real-time information in order to create transparency into supplier and customer organizations
  • Proactively adapt to changing business requirements by tightly coupling planning and execution processes with 24/7 collaboration between customers, suppliers, and partners
  • Become very agile with transparent visibility into demand, inventory, and logistics issues across the supply chain
  • Speed product development by tightly integrating internal engineering organizations with those of vendors
Find out more about how Microsoft Dynamics and Systematica support the Food & Beverage Manufacturing industry.

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