Cloud ERP software for the dairy industry

Maximize milk utilization and meet demand in the most profitable way
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Always be prepared for tomorrow’s shipment with dairy ERP

As a manufacturer of dairy products, you have to be forward thinking. Given the short shelf life of your primary ingredient, that means real-time visibility of the supply of raw milk—including its variable butterfat, protein, and other solids components—and statistically sound forecasts of what products you need to produce and where they are going. Infor provides the most powerful, purpose-built, and complete suite of solutions developed specifically for dairy manufacturers to do just that.
The benefits of the cloud simply cannot be ignored anymore. The cloud is faster, more flexible and also reliable. Moreover, it takes a lot of management out of your hands and it is easy to adapt standards. So it forms a strong basis for the future, in which data will play an increasingly important role in dairy production.
 

Joris Aarts,

Director of finance and supply chain, Amalthea

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Customer story

Critical dairy challenges require new processes and new software

With CloudSuite Food & Beverage, Infor’s cloud-based ERP for dairy companies, you can improve efficiency and responsiveness by addressing unique variables and industry requirements, including fluctuations in demand, milk supply, and production capacity. CloudSuite Food & Beverage provides the capabilities you need to manage all the challenges your dairy business faces as an industry cloud service. Here’s how Infor can help you achieve a competitive advantage for your business.
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Boost yield and quality

With Infor’s solution for dairy companies you can manage all your capacity and supply chain constraints, including production and tank capacity, shelf-life limitations, contamination risks, and managing multiple plants, cold stores and distribution centers. Features include:

  • Dairy-specific capabilities built-in enabling efficient operations, maximum yield and reduced waste
  • Advanced scheduling considering cleaning rules, production and tank capacity
  • Protein and fat contents in planning, inventory, and milk processing for accurate planning, valorization and cost accounting
  • Catch weight and dehydration of cheese for accurate billing and costing
  • Asset management to maximize equipment uptime and safety
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Ensure food safety and compliance

With CloudSuite Food & Beverage, you can reduce the risk of ingredient contamination and meet quality and compliance mandates, including label production. Thanks to alerting and rapid escalation technologies for early and quick detection of problems you can perform lot and sub-lot track and trace throughout your supply chain for quick recall identification. Features include:

  • Graphical track and trace with origin, variable lot and quality information for better informed, more targeted and faster recalls
  • Integrated and digitized quality management for pro-active food safety and compliance
  • Integration to LIMS and MES to capture quality test results in highly automated factories
  • Regulatory compliance to safety standards, packaging, and label requirements
  • Data-driven monitors and embedded AI for preventing non-compliance and food safety issues
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Optimize the supply chain and operations

Infor’s advanced demand planning capabilities with machine learning help predict demand with more certainty using daily and seasonal forecasting, replenishment planning, inventory optimization, and promotional planning. Sales & Operations Planning takes this further by optimizing production, inventory and service levels against the lowest cost. Research shows that most companies can meet customer service level agreements with 10% less finished goods inventory by using inventory optimization strategies. Features include:

  • Forecasting with machine learning to accurately predict demand
  • Milk supply planning on the level of protein and fat, and insight in by-products resulting from milk processing, maximizing yield 
  • Shelf-life, expire and aging management minimizing waste
  • Grower contracts and settlements for farmer payments based on received qualities
  • Sales & operations planning and execution in one platform for seamless collaboration
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Accelerate product innovation

Infor’s industry cloud solution for dairy companies provides best-in-class Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), so you can develop new or revised recipes quickly and collaboratively, reduce the costs for new product introductions, and decrease product time to market by 50% or more. You’ll also get tools to generate label contents with claims that are compliant with regulator and customer mandates. Features include:

  • Stage gate process for qualification of product innovation ideas
  • Project management with work breakdown and schedules for clear responsibilities and throughput
  • Cross-functional product lifecycle management supports bringing products to market faster and with accurate labels
  • Formulations considering nutritional values, allergens, cost and ecological footprint
  • Traceability and attribute inheritance for provenance information
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Control costs and drive profitability

You cannot meet the unique needs of the dairy industry unless you have the best software tools on the market today, tools that are flexible and grow with you as your business grows. With CloudSuite Food & Beverage you get a true native industry cloud solution that is receiving new capabilities continuously, so that you always have a current solution with the latest innovations without having to do major upgrade projects anymore. As a result, you can quickly adapt business processes to the rapid changes of the current dairy industry. Features include:

  • Multi country/site/channel platform for growth
  • Trade agreements for managing complex prices, discounts and rebates and having insight into margins
  • Machine learning for product and price recommendations to increase sales and margins
  • Artificial intelligence to check for anomalies and to automate order processing

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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 fulfill 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-practices

PRODUCTS INCLUDED

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