Manufacturing
Food and Beverage manufacturing software
Food manufacturing software is crucial for streamlining processes, ensuring quality control, and maintaining traceability in a dynamic industry. It optimises production, minimises wastage, and enhances overall efficiency, allowing businesses to meet regulatory standards, adapt to market demands, and achieve sustainable growth.
With the specialist modules in our food and beverage manufacturing software, you can create a package tailored to your business needs and be confident that it can always be scaled up or amended as your business grows and evolves.
Mitigate wastage with food traceability software
Food and Drink has faced increased demand over recent years, due to consumer expectations of increased variety. This means manufacturers need to have a Food and Drink ERP that can handle traceability, quality and flexibility through every process.
Access ERP is designed for Food and Drinks manufacturers to tackle wastage by increased traceability and quality control, reduce production costs by streamlining production lines, and have planning flexibility to keep up with product development and consumer demand.
Benefits of food manufacturing software
Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
- Easily create orders for process or batch manufacturing, while being able to take into account the existing lead times.
- Use the Control Desk feature for rapid creations of suggested purchase and works orders, and use MRP functionality to make suggestions on purchased orders that should be cancelled or rescheduled.
- The system calculates requirements for finished batches and links back to your purchase order schedule.
Production planning and scheduling
- One simple, live chart for all to see and for amends to be made easily using the 'Drag and Drop' Gantt Chart functionality, with these updates being sent to everyone on the shop floor live.
- Capacity planning - Work towards reduced machine and resource downtime with effective planning tools that show visibility of machinery, staff and materials.
- 'What-if?' scenarios - Easily evaluate alternative plans and outcomes with the powerful ‘what-if’ scenario functionality.
Enhanced Security
With our food manufacturing ERP, your data is protected in the cloud as it is hosted separately from your main domain. It’s protected from cyberattacks, and from attacks to your on-premise infrastructure.
Advanced threat protection is provided via Palo Alto Wildfire firewalls, an intrusion detection and prevention system (IDS / IPS). It analyses threat intelligence from the largest global community to identify unknown threats and stop attackers in their tracks, and is particularly effective for dealing with “zero-day threats” – innovative attacks that haven’t yet been identified, acknowledged or fixed by the system it’s trying to infiltrate.
Access uses enterprise-level technology to identify and fix vulnerabilities that threaten the security of your IT Infrastructure. We'll deploy patches as they become available, ensuring your systems are up to date and protected.
Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery
- Analyse the impact of an outage before it happens
- Fully automated application-level testing and failover
- Automated backup and recovery testing
- Automated Disaster Recovery compliance reports
- Recovery Assurance for local, second site and cloud
Our data centres are in 7 locations on 4 continents - Europe, USA, Asia and Australia. Each location is ISO27001/SSAE-16 certified and highly optimised for cloud computing with N+1 or greater redundancy at all levels.
Quality control and traceability
- The ERP traceability software for food manufacturing allows users to keep all certificates of conformity and associated quality documents in one place, against the finished batch.
- Easily identify any anomalies, which batch it came from, when it was produced, which products has it been used in and where are they now.
- Reduce food wastage by tracking anomalies throughout the production line and addressing these before large batches are scrapped.
- Control non-conformity in ingredients to eliminate defects in the manufacturing process.
- Full traceability reports for any product recalls with a complete audit trail and instantly source evidence, including POs, delivery notes and inspection reports.
Shop floor data capture
- Improve stock management and audit trails by aligning finished goods with works orders.
- Get an overview of employees, machines and other resources and change production plans on the shop floor to ensure maximum resource utilisation.
- Integrate with shop floor systems to gather live data directly from the production process such as shop floor terminals, touch screens, barcoding and hand-held devices.
Business management
Purchasing
- Close integration with the core ledgers completes a secure audit trail, benefit from instant nominal updates for a live and accurate picture of your costs
- Monitor and report on suppliers’ performance, helping you to identify problem areas, and track product quality and supplier reliability
Job Costing and Quotations
- Easily raise and update quotations from anywhere, whether you're on site or with a customer
- Manage and track costs at every stage of any batch or process including WIP (work in progress)
- Capture production data during the manufacturing process and relay it to managers and/or display on interactive screens on the shop floor
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