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ERP for the Food & Beverage Equipment Industry

ERP Software for Food & Beverage Equipment Manufacturers

The growing world is demanding more and more food. Increasing world-wide demand, plus a shift to higher calories per individual (a greater proportion of these calories coming from animal products like beef, chicken and pork) translates into rising product demand for the food processing equipment industry.

Shifting customer preferences such as organics, and health consciousness products, are driving certain types of equipment to extend their versatility. And with growing demand, comes new competition, particularly from foreign regions of the world.

What Makes the Food & Beverage Equipment Market Unique?

Complex Operations

WorkWise ERP handles complex work operations including rising materials costs, inefficient operations and water and energy reduction among other features.

Growing Competition

Handle the ever-growing competition in the food and beverage industry with ERP software that includes unique features to compete with growing food & beverage industry.

Rapidly Evolving Technology

In order to deliver excellent service, help customers, perform jobs better, WorkWise ERP provides evolving technology in order to help maintain business operations.

Food and beverage equipment manufacturers face a challenge of helping their customers perform their jobs better, while at the same time responding to rapidly evolving technology, growing competition, and complexity in their operations.

Their customers are demanding increased value with decreased costs, while expecting solutions that include full services and support. Simple quality metrics of the past have now been replaced with total life-cycle performance, including all the activities that occur from the birth of the equipment till its final replacement. Low maintenance is now a mandate rather than a “nice to have” feature. Reliability and quality play a dynamic part in maintaining product pricing, both in new and resale (which makes purchase of new equipment more feasible). Material costs also continue to fluctuate, which make pricing of the products difficult. At the same time, manufacturers must offer solutions to help cope with rising transport costs, increased government regulations, food safety concerns and changing consumer tastes.

No doubt about it, food and beverage equipment manufacturers have a full plate. Fortunately, WorkWise ERP software has unique features that address these problems, helping to bring these challenges under control.

WorkWise ERP for Food & Beverage Equipment Manufacturers

+- Challenges Faced by Food & Beverage Equipment Manufacturers

Competition

Foreign low cost competition
Weak foreign rights in intellectual property, copy cats

Innovation

Staying ahead of the competition
Ability to make things faster, better
Product flexibility, versatility
Waste prevention and loss reduction
Long lasting reliability
Rapid change in consumer tastes and associated changes to equipment
Water and energy reduction
Meeting customer expectations
Low maintenance and clean ability
Groundbreaking technologies
Shorter product lifecycles
Customer demand for lower prices
Customer demands for more features, functions and solutions
Rising material costs
High inventory levels
Pressures to reduce cost
Push for lower total cost of ownership for the product
Inefficient operations
Rising transportation costs

Complexity

Large number components and operations in product
Variety in features, functions, and special orders
Longer and larger supply chains

Quality

Lifecycle quality-birth to death
Product traceability
Long lasting reliability
Material safety
Regulatory compliance
Large customer defection rates for poor quality

Total Solutions

Customer mandated solutions- birth to death
Need for comprehensive aftermarket service and support
Requirement for readily available aftermarket parts
Mandated full warranty coverage and extended time frames
Better customer service
Focus on product performance rather than features, functions
Resale value of equipment
Food processing expertise

Supply Chain Weaknesses

Fluctuating raw material prices
Unreliable suppliers
Poor delivery performance
Need greater insights into supplier activities

+- WorkWise ERP Key Features for Food & Beverage Equipment Manufacturers

Mixed Modes

Make to stock
Assemble to order
Build to order
Configure to order
Repeat and tweak
Engineer to order
Mixed methods
Lean Manufacturing
Kanban
MRP & MPS
JIT
5s
MES
Role based manufacturing
TQM, Six Sigma, Kaizen

Product Life Cycle Management

Customer portal
CRM-Customer
Product configuration
Document and file management
Engineering change orders
Supplier traceability
As built BOM and routing
Build histories
Quality archives
CRM-Support
Warranty

After Market Sales and Support

CRM-Call center
eCommerce
Warranty
Customer portal

Quality

Engineering change orders
Quality control
Regulation compliance
21 CFR Part 11., Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) and Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOP).
SPC
APQP
Supplier score carding

Production Planning

Material requirements planning
Master scheduling
Product configuration
Available to promise
Lot traceability
Capacity planning

Manufacturing Execution

Product configuration
Visual scheduling
Shop Floor Control
Work in process manager
Asset utilization manager, CMMS/EAM
Mobile data collection
Kanban
Kaizen
5s

Cost Management

Job cost
Standard cost
Multi-layered cost application

Customer Service

Quoting and estimating
Complex orders
Product configuration
Copy and tweak order creation
Direct Fulfillment
Customer portal
Customer relationship manager

Supply Chain

Inventory management
Supplier portal
Purchasing
Bill of material
Engineering change orders
JIT
Warehouse management

+- WorkWise ERP Software Additional Key Features & Functions

Role based screens and applications
Performance management
Freight and shipping system
Blanket purchase orders
Document archiving
Asset purchased and tracking system
Back flushing
Rules based configurations
Kitting
Cumulative lead time
Cost application of design, research and other special costs
Modular design capability
Rules based quotations and configurations
Sales order to job link
Serial tracking
Lot tracing
What-if quotes and costing
Available to promise
Shop order explosion
Matrix bills
Features and options
Multi-level pricing
Smooth forecast error
Substitutes and alternatives
Family forecasting
Serialized inventory
Attribute management

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All aspects of our company are now running through our ERP software. Having everyone work out of the same system and not have multiple programs that you have to jump back and forth through, has allowed us to get more done in less time.

Gary Volz

Software Developer

ACI

One of the main benefits we’ve experienced using WorkWise ERP is being able to get meaningful information we can use, versus getting data that requires more work to get the answers you’re looking for. The data is integrated and streamlined for efficient use which keeps our fixed costs lower and allows us to invest our capital into building better products.

Michael Ray

CFO

ACR

It doesn’t take all day to do our schedule anymore. Also, the Performance Management WorkBench lets us see what information we want to see, and what time we want to see it, in a nice visual way. Item Planning is also great. It’s so easy to look up specific information related to whatever we need to see.

Kelly Crowell

AMI President

American Metal Fab

What’s really nice is having everything in one package. My financials are in the same package as manufacturing and customer orders. Everything integrates seamlessly. Bringing in inventory management has been a huge benefit for us. Being able to jump between workbenches and different points of data has been really nice.

Pam Reynolds

Chief Financial Officer

CapstanAG

I would highly recommend WorkWise to other companies. It’s cost competitive, the Cloud ERP implementation has been great, the people have been great. WorkWise bends over backwards to help us. We feel that they’re on our side.

Don Lavrenz

President and CEO

The Industrial Controls Company

WorkWise has been a true leader in our ability to drive process change and productivity enhancement, and to assist us in our lean capabilities.

Jim Moldenhauer

IT Manager

Hampel

I would definitely recommend WorkWise ERP to anyone looking to improve their manufacturing processes. We’ve been utilizing the software for 20 years and have never regretted our decision.

Chris Reid

President

Service Stampings

WorkWise spent a lot of time with us in order to understand our manufacturing process. We’re fairly unique, and there’s not that many companies in the world that do what we do. WorkWise really made us feel like they understood what we were doing and where we were going.

Dave Manahan

Business Process Improvement Director

Strongwell

The team at WorkWise is phenomenal. I highly recommend WorkWise ERP to any company looking to improve their processes, improve their efficiency, become more productive and work with a company who really gets to know them and understands what they’re going through.

Mike Campise

IT Systems Specialist

RMF