Food and Beverage ERP

When supplies can expire, monitoring supply chains requires even more vigilance. Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage provides precise demand forecasting and better shelf-life management tools to help supply chains meet customer demands without waste or sunk costs. Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage automatically navigates variables like shelf-life and demand forecasts, consolidates relevant information into a user-friendly Supplier Portal, and helps customers optimize operations and supply chains accordingly. Enhanced financial visibility is also included, so manufacturers can monitor margins and ensure profitability in real-time. 

Delivering a product on time matters even more when shipments have a shelf life. Updates to Infor Food & Beverage CloudSuite includes a user-friendly Supplier Portal that connects manufacturers and their partners via a single user-friendly dashboard. All parties are granted insight into entire supply chains, with specific attention paid to crucial variables like expiration dates, in-stock inventory, and consumer demand. With Infor solutions in place, Food & Beverage customers have even reduced unused inventory by up to 15%. 

Key industry enhancements

• Supplier Portal: Infor Supplier Portal provides a user-friendly digital tool that allows manufacturers to work with suppliers in real-time. The portal tracks communication between parties, confirms orders, compiles advanced shipping notices (ASNs), and receives transport updates, then consolidates that information in one place to reduce confusion and extraneous communications. Infor Supplier Portal also includes 24/7 service for suppliers, making it easier to plan for needed materials, confirm orders, and manage shipments. 
• EA Content Library for Rapid Value Realization: A catalog of prebuilt content or automation flows using any combination of EA technologies- RPA+IDP, BaaS, AI, iPaaS.
• Picklist Proof of Delivery: Improve productivity and customer service with Infor Enterprise Automation (EA) processing and centralizing proof of delivery documents. Infor EA automates the picklist digital document capture, processing and management for customer service inquiries to improve productivity by at least 85% and shorten time to resolution.
• Invoice Processing & Matching: Improve productivity and vendor satisfaction with Infor Enterprise Automation (EA) processing invoices for payment. Infor EA automates the capture, matching, and invoice creation for vendor payment to improve productivity by at least 72% and shorten days to pay. Any exception errors are routed and corrected by a human. 

What we do: Recalls can cause significant and costly brand damage to Food & Beverage manufacturers. Infor enhanced CloudSuite Food & Beverage keeps products and their labels compliant automatically, greatly reducing the chance of quality errors. Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage integrates quality testing into the manufacturing process and automates necessary recipe changes and label swaps in accordance with regional compliance standards. If a recall does occur, Infor allows for faster tracing of affected products to minimize impact.  

Traditionally, ingredient swaps can cause enormous headaches for Food & Beverage suppliers – and their IT departments. Ingredient changes necessitate new rounds of quality tests, additional recipe adjustments, and the creation of new labels to meet regional qualifications. With Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage, quality check processes and label updates are automated, reducing manual demand on teams to accomplish this important process without errors. With Infor solutions in place, one Food & Beverage customer experienced a 50% reduction in nutrition label creation time, and an 88% reduction in nutrition label reworks.

Key industry enhancements

• MES Quality Assurance Widget: Infor MES Quality Assurance Widget integrates consistent quality testing into the production process. This feature improves overall quality control and helps manufacturers avoid recall by collecting speedier, more accurate test results.
• Capacity Planning Workbench: Infor Capacity Planning Workbench is a tool that allows customers to adapt to daily changes in demand. With this new visual feature, users can optimize production from shift to shift, distributing work evenly to avoid overtime and reduce idle hours.
• Extensibility for Regulatory Compliance: New extension points build customized logic via XtendM3 to confirm put-away location. This new functionality improves safety regulation compliance by separating goods where needed. Examples include allergen regulations and managing hazardous material. 
• e-Signature and e-Record: Improved audit assistance with electronic records. Increase user productivity with simplified signing process and capturing the complete set of data from multiple tables in a transaction. Improved FDA 21 CFR Part 11 compliance with automatic creation of electronic records data integrity with electronic records being protected from tampering. 

Infor® PLM for Process is a cloud-based, product lifecycle management solution specifically designed for food and beverage manufacturing. It maximizes 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 optimization, 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
• Prioritize new product developments with a stage-gate process
• Optimize 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

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

Infor® Supply Chain Planning is a powerful platform that balances supply and demand to optimize 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 optimization, 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 optimization of profitability and service levels
• Reduce transportation, overtime, and inventory holding costs
• Optimize 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 optimization that considers changeovers and cleaning-in-place

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 organization 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 centralized governance across Infor and non-Infor applications
• Save thousands of hours of development and eliminate the need for multiple data integration, databases, and visualization solutions

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
• Utilize 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

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
• Utilize a consumer-grade, personalized, role-based user interface
• Leverage relevant and timely data based on behavior science and analytics
• Gain complete employee visibility; hire, develop, and retain the right talent
• Boost employee performance and improve workforce effectiveness

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