Food and Beverage
Competition, highly variable material costs, regulatory requirements and quality management
are key challenges to food and beverage industry profitability.
To succeed, you must have a firm and immediate grasp of production and product margins, and make
timely sales and operational decisions based upon accurate data. Real-time access to accurate,
concise data with efficient work flows is a key component of managing these complex issues.
Security
To a food or beverage company, formulas are a proprietary, competitive edge and critical to quality
and safety control. We give you the ability to specify formula visibility groups, formula change approvals,
optional electronic signatures, and specific access rules.
Managing Profitability
Low margins and often highly fluctuating material costs make managing profitability a must for
food and beverage manufacturers. Our real-time cost data helps you
track material costs, labor, packaging and finished goods. We make costing visible throughout the
entire formulation and production process.
Integrated Systems
Often in Food & Beverage:
Formulations are kept in Excel, Access or another third-party product then re-keyed into a
production system. Changes often require data updates in several places.
- Quality Control keeps their own database of test profiles, results, hold status,
lot information and more, meaning changes to the QC database do not affect inventory in the
ERP, so adjustments must be made manually. This leads to errors and
the possibility of using or shipping something not approved.
- Production reporting is not current enough to affect the present day's production.
With an active, integrated system, production could be notified immediately if yields/costs are
outside of specifications.
Other issues addressed by Escape Velocity Systems:
- Instant lot traceability
- Quality Control and lot attribute analysis
- Formulation by percents and variable units of measure
- Customer service visibility into current production data
- Pricing flexibility: national accounts, contracts, promotions,
customer/product price groups