Cloud ERP software for the dairy industry

Maximize milk utilization and meet demand in the most profitable way

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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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

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

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

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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Food industry software products

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ERP for food and beverage
Product lifecycle management for process manufacturing
Infor MES solution to improve manufacturing operational performance
Food industry supply chain planning
Business intelligence for food and beverage
Food Industry cloud technology
Human resources for food and beverage
SMB ERP for Food and Beverage

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

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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 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

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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 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

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 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

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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
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

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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
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

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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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Cloud ERP software for the dairy industry

Always be prepared for tomorrow’s shipment with dairy ERP

Critical dairy challenges require new processes and new software

Boost yield and quality

Ensure food safety and compliance

Optimize the supply chain and operations

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Accelerate product innovation

Control costs and drive profitability

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Food industry software products

ERP for food and beverage

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Optimize the supply chain and operations

Control costs and drive profitability

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ERP for food and beverage

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