Food and Beverage ERP

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Simplified food industry software to transform your business

Our simplified ERP solutions have food and beverage industry functionality built in for operational excellence, product lifecycle management, supply chain planning, and asset management. We make it easier for you to improve food safety, minimize waste, and provide greater supply chain transparency.
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Supporting all kinds of food and beverage companies, including:

Beverage


Get a foundation for greater agility in dealing with fluctuations in demand, ingredient supply, and production capacity.
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Dairy


Improve the raw milk yield, optimise planning and production, and simplify regulatory compliance. 
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Meat, poultry & fish


Maximise the yield of your livestock, control plant production and ensure traceability from farm to table.
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Bakery, snacks & confectionary


Manage shelf-life, ingredient availability, regulations, consumer trends, and demand that varies by the day of the week.
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Food ingredients


Make better, smarter, and more accurate decisions about your ingredient formulations, labels, and supply chain. 
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Cloud ERP supports innovation, safety, and sustainability in food manufacturing

Food consumers demand product innovation for more than taste. They want end-to-end food supply chain visibility to verify safety and sustainable operations. Deploy food products consumers want faster with our cloud ERP solutions and transform your business.
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Ensure food safety, quality, and compliance with the best ERP for food and beverage

Consumers and regulators expect food and beverage manufacturers to take a proactive approach to quality and safety. Regulations are rigorous and the risks associated with failure are high. Food companies earn trust and brand value with the advanced quality management system, end-to-end food traceability software, and rapid recall capabilities our solution provides.

Food and beverage worker using PLM software to improve recipe and formula management, and drive product innovation and ROI.

Speed up time to market with PLM software for food and beverage

Consumer preferences and available ingredients are constantly changing. To protect margins and grow market share, food manufacturers must introduce new recipes and products to market faster. Speed up product development with our product lifecycle management software for food and beverage that has unique workflows for PLM, ERP, and SCP.

  • Calculate, simulate, and optimise nutritional values, allergens, and cost of formulations
  • Ensure regulatory and customer requirements are met throughout the product development cycle
  • Generate compliant product labels and ingredient specifications with built-in regulatory content
  • Implement transparency that provides consumers with details from farm to fork
  • Focus on product development ideas with the highest potential
  • Improve effectiveness with a stage-gate product development process

 

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Increase operational productivity and reduce waste with a modern Food and Beverage ERP

Margins in food manufacturing are thin and it’s important to be as efficient as possible. Food, water, energy and time waste must be minimized for profitability and sustainability. Implementing a modern food ERP system enables a digital transformation. Our cloud application platform optimises food manufacturer operations for competitive advantages.

  • Drive decisions for reducing waste and minimizing food safety risks using IoT sensor readings
  • Avoid down time and food safety risks with predictive maintenance and embedded quality processes
  • Optimise yield of livestock, milk, and crops based on cut, grading, and processing options
  • Automate and improve productivity with embedded AI
  • Be at the leading edge of Industry 4.0 innovations

 

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Manage supply chain complexity with advanced planning and scheduling

Demand can be seasonal and changes can happen suddenly due to weather conditions or shifting sales channels and products. Supply chains can be disrupted due to poor harvests and issues in transportation. Our advanced demand planning, supply planning, and scheduling solutions offer visibility and enable you to optimise service levels against lowest cost.

  • Leverage advanced statistical forecasting and demand sensing using machine learning
  • Incorporate promotional and new product history for better decisions
  • Balance stock-build, inventory holding costs, production capacity, overtime costs, and shelf-life
  • Optimise yield of livestock, milk and crops based on cut, grading and processing options
  • Minimize change overs, cleaning-in-place, and contamination risks with a synchronized and sequenced production schedule considering production line, labor, tank, and silo capacities

 

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Drive profitable growth with an agile cloud-ERP for food

Today’s food and beverage organizations need complete enterprise-wide visibility and the agility to quickly respond to a changing market. Our smart, preconfigured and modern ERP for food and beverage offers the agility to quickly turn challenges and disruptions into a competitive advantage.

  • Get insight into sales volumes and margins per sales channel, product, and package size
  • Use external data sources, like point-of-sale information, to drive targeted product introductions and rationalizations
  • Handle complex price, discount, and rebate agreements automatically and see the impact on profitability immediately
  • Grab a bigger market share and become less vulnerable for demand changes by connecting new trading partners, marketplaces, and ecommerce to the digital platform
  • Integrate acquisitions quickly and expand internationally thanks to world-class multi-company, multi-site and multi-country capabilities

Supporting all kinds of food and beverage companies

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Food ingredients

Efficiently manufacturing food ingredients means being able to control the specifications and formulas for a large number of SKUs. Securing the sourcing of compliant ingredients and being able to do a fast track and trace is critical. Our PLM and ERP solutions for food ingredient manufacturers provide the needed compliance and agility in this highly competitive industry.

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Food industry software products

ERP for food and beverage

Infor CloudSuite™ Food & Beverage has built-in industry and sub-segment specific capabilities are at its core. The solution provides an exceptional user experience and powerful analytics in a multicompany, multicountry, and multisite platform. It’s a digital platform that enables food processors to innovate by adopting new technologies and new food and beverage industry-specific features that are made available continuously in the cloud.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Process and fulfil sales orders accurately, down to the minute level, while considering the most cost-efficient options
  • Meet legal and customer requirements with integrated quality management
  • Quickly identify root causes of food safety issues and conduct accurate and targeted recalls
  • Quickly implement preconfigured food and beverage processing best-practises 

PRODUCTS INCLUDED

  • Infor ERP
  • Infor® OS
  • Infor Birst®
  • Infor Implementation Accelerators

See Infor CloudSuite for Food and Beverage

Product lifecycle management for process manufacturing

Infor® PLM for Process is a cloud-based, product lifecycle management solution specifically designed for food and beverage manufacturing. It maximises the value of process manufacturers’ R&D teams and helps reduce the time spent performing key product lifecycle processes, such as new product development and introduction, formula optimisation, regulatory compliance, and project management. The solution seamlessly integrates with ERP, customer relationship management, laboratory information management systems, and other key business tools.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Shorten time to market for food and beverage products
  • Prioritise new product developments with a stage-gate process
  • Optimise recipe formulas to meet the requirements against lowest costs
  • Ensure correct food label contents and formulas to meet legal and customer requirements globally
  • Provide food supply chain transparency to consumers

See Infor PLM for process

Infor MES solution to improve manufacturing operational performance

Empower operators on the shop floor with a highly visual, IoT-enabled Manufacturing Execution System to achieve real-time control and visibility of all manufacturing operations in the factory and support data driven decision making.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Create the smart factory with extensive MOM (manufacturing operations management) functionality across production, quality, inventory, and maintenance, centrally orchestrate operations, connecting to machines and equipment for real-time visibility and responsiveness
  • Increase efficiency (OEE), reduce waste, and improve FTTQ (first time through quality)
  • Accelerate time-to-value and ROI with a modular, highly configurable enterprise MES solution, offering 24/7 resilience
  • Support your digital transformation journey in manufacturing operations
  • Integrate with Infor Industrial CloudSuites and leverage rich manufacturing data in Infor OS

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Food industry supply chain planning

Infor® Supply Chain Planning is a powerful platform that balances supply and demand to optimise inventory, service, and performance across the entire food supply chain. Food and beverage companies can tap into solutions for demand planning and sensing, supply planning, production planning and scheduling, inventory optimisation, and sales and operations planning.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Increase forecast accuracy using advanced forecasting techniques, machine learning, and demand sensing
  • Generate a balanced push-pull plan using linear programming solving in advanced planning
  • Generate multiple scenarios to enable comparison and optimisation of profitability and service levels
  • Reduce transportation, overtime, and inventory holding costs
  • Optimise the yield of livestock, milk, and crops to match demand in the most profitable way
  • Respect tank and silo capacities and inflow/outflow constraints in scheduling
  • Sequence optimisation that considers changeovers and cleaning-in-place

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Business intelligence for food and beverage

Infor Birst® Enterprise’s patented automation technology brings together and delivers trusted insights for food and beverage companies. From executives to front-line workers, all levels of the organisation have access to the latest trends impacting your food and beverage business.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Smarter decision making with AI-driven insights that explain why a KPI is trending up or down
  • Higher analytics adoption with a modern solution designed for self-service and ease of use
  • More confidence in decision-making with centralised governance across Infor and non-Infor applications
  • Save thousands of hours of development and eliminate the need for multiple data integration, databases, and visualisation solutions

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Food Industry cloud technology

Infor® OS is a cloud operating platform that seamlessly connects services across all Infor CloudSuite™ industry solutions and many third-party solutions. Services range from essential, business-critical functionality to more advanced technology that’s capable of providing competitive advantages to food and beverage companies.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Leverage a unified cloud infrastructure for single sign-on, mobility, security, and compliance
  • Utilise seamless integration across Infor and non-Infor products
  • Leverage an easy-to-use, unified, user experience across all applications
  • Capture vital data from IoT devices
  • Use advanced analytics and AI for guidance and automated decisions
  • Ensure compliance, collaboration, and accountability with role-based homepages, alerts, and workflows

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Human resources for food and beverage

Infor® Human Resources is a leading-edge, end-to-end talent-focused solution. It can help you strategically align people initiatives and talent capabilities to your food and beverage business strategies.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Get all the human capital management functionality you need in one complete solution
  • Utilise a consumer-grade, personalised, role-based user interface
  • Leverage relevant and timely data based on behaviour science and analytics
  • Gain complete employee visibility; hire, develop, and retain the right talent
  • Boost employee performance and improve workforce effectiveness

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SMB ERP for Food and Beverage

Food and beverage manufacturers have unique requirements when it comes to manufacturing operations. Infor CloudSuite Industrial for Food & Beverage is the solution to make it easy to adjust recipes, build batches based on exacting manufacturing specifications, and monitor and respond to the evolving regulatory environment.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Manage multiple units of measure for any item
  • Model recipes based on weight or volume, as well as loss or yield percentages
  • Account for ingredients used in a recipe that are soluble or are removed from the process prior to packaging
  • Resize a recipe based on production needs, using percentages to accurately scale all of the components
  • Maintain a full history of recipe revisions and be able to recall prior versions and place into production, as needed
  • Issue ingredients quickly and efficiently by reporting in batch production quantities
  • Take advantage of food and beverage ERP functionality to address costing and lot traceability

PRODUCTS INCLUDED

  • Infor ERP
  • Infor SyteLine Process Industry Pack
  • Infor® OS
  • Implementation Accelerator

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