Cloud ERP software for the dairy industry
Always be prepared for tomorrow’s shipment with dairy ERP
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.
Director of finance and supply chain, Amalthea
Critical dairy challenges require new processes and new software
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 centres. 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, valorisation and cost accounting
- Catch weight and dehydration of cheese for accurate billing and costing
- Asset management to maximise 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 digitised 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
Optimise 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 optimisation, and promotional planning. Sales & Operations Planning takes this further by optimising 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 optimisation 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, maximising yield
- Shelf-life, expire and ageing management minimising waste
- Grower contracts and settlements for farmer payments based on received qualities
- Sales & operations planning and execution in one platform for seamless collaboration
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
Food industry software products
- 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 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
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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 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
See Infor Supply Chain Planning
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
See Infor OS
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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