What it is

With Infor Food & Beverage, the combination of collaboration, flexibility and usability helps you capture demand signals and develop more precise and accurate forecasts with less manual input. Key features include:

• Collaborative forecasting and demand planning
• Effective promotion planning and tracking
• Processing high sales order volumes
• Responsive material and capacity planning
• Warehouse management with shelf life handling
• Route-based repetitive and non-repetitive distribution
• Management of returnable pallets and containers

What it does

Managing a business in a volume-intensive industry like yours can really quench the thirst for innovation and creativity. It can also feel like drinking from a fire hose. Huge orders flow in from a variety of channels, and often they require same or next day delivery. Raw material prices constantly fluctuate, and regulations are becoming increasingly stringent. Plus you face frequent changes in consumer preferences, packaging and labeling concerns, and a host of issues related to manufacturing, inventory, and delivery.

Infor Food & Beverage software is designed to help you manage the complexities of your supply chain—from the harvesting of raw materials to managing orders and delivering your final product to the shelves. It addresses beverage industry issues such as capacity planning, delivery forecasting, catch weight, variable attribute production, plant maintenance, and more, with full supply chain traceability.

What it means

With a focus on yield optimization, demand planning, and asset management, Infor Food & Beverage is designed to help you streamline operations and control costs, while maintaining complete traceability and food and drink safety across the entire value chain. Infor Food & Beverage helps you:

• Improve forecasting accuracy.
• Optimize the use of tank capacity and production scheduling.
• Speed up warehouse operations.