Food and beverage distribution
Microsoft Dynamics AX offers powerful, integrated business solutions for companies in the food and beverage distribution industry. Microsoft Dynamics AX can help your organisation succeed through efficient ordering and delivery processes, improved warehousing capabilities delivering the right product to the right place at the right time and providing up to the minute reporting tools allowing you to effectively respond to customers’ changing demands.
Microsoft Dynamics AX ™ makes it easier for you to:
Manage safety, quality and regulatory requirements.
Track costs and analyse profit margins.
Lower stock levels and streamline your supply chain.
Simplify order cycles and improve customer service.
Make better decisions based on up to the minute real time data.
Sales & purchase order processing
- Manage Supplier and customer price lists, rebates and product promotions.
- Define a product’s sellable days for each customer so that dispatched goods meet each customer’s delivery criteria.
- Define customer specifications and match product lot attributes with specific customer requirements.
- Manage direct deliveries and multiple shipment addresses.
- Catch weight processing - price Sales and purchase orders using actual product weight rather packaging unit.
- EDI order load and invoicing.
- Advanced shipment notices.
Shelf life management
- Track shelf life, best before and expiry dates.
- Capture information from the supplier for each lot delivered including supplier lot number, supplier production and expiry dates.
- Pick materials for shipment based on FEFO - First expired first out criteria.
Stock management
- Manage and control materials, from supplier receipts through shipment to retailers.
- Define multiple stock dimensions and product attributes.
- Manage material forecasts for sales and purchasing, safety stock levels and delivery schedules.
- Supports COOL – Country of Origin Labeling requirements.
Food safety
- Automate product tracking and tracing from the supplier to the retailer.
- Reduce food spoilage and lower inventory costs through improved forecasting and inventory management policies.
- Track shelf life, shelf advice and best before dates.
- Automate quality processes and record test results against each consignment through a fully integrated quality management module.
Streamline business processes
- Automate critical business processes from order taking to inventory replenishment
- Implement tools to enable product up-selling and cross-selling
- Deliver real-time business intelligence and alerts on the status of the business to management and customers.
- Speed order picking by two to six times with powerful, integrated Automatic Data Collection (ADC) solutions.
Enhance responsiveness
- Generate real-time reports and alerts for management and retailers.
- Track and easily adapt to changing customer demand.
- Coordinate and track customer communications where several employees interact with a customer across multiple channels.
- Enable customer self-service through web portals.