Food Manufacturing
Microsoft Dynamics® AX provides food and beverage manufacturing companies with the tools they need to meet quality and compliance standards, manage stock and satisfy customer demand while maintaining excellent customer service.
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.
Optimise your production process. Reduce labour costs, waste and rework.
Simplify order cycles and improve customer service.
Make better decisions based on up to the minute real time data.
Food safety and regulatory requirements
- Provides end to end lot traceability in line with article 18 of the European Union’s Regulation 178/2002
- Supports HACCP & GMP guidelines.
- Fully integrated quality management, define product specifications and track test results. Assign the correct stock status to each lot, prevent materials from being used by production or shipped to customers, handle product release and downgrades.
- Identify and track an unlimited number of individual lot attributes
- Manage approved supplier lists
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 production or customer shipment based on FEFO - First expired first out criteria.
Stock management
- Manage and control materials, from supplier receipts through production and shipment.
- Define multiple stock dimensions and product attributes.
- Manage material forecasts for sales and purchasing, safety stock levels and delivery schedules.
- Conduct comprehensive “where-used” analysis, including alternate recipe tracking.
- Supports COOL – Country of Origin Labeling requirements.
Product Recipes
- Define and approve production recipes; define variations based on batch size or manufacture date.
- Define seasonal produce and material variations.
- Identify packaging and labelling requirements.
- Manage co-products, by-products, waste and rework.
- Identify operations, machine requirements and running costs. Manage labour, utilities, setup, run time and changeover times.
Manage Production
- Schedule production using graphical drag and drop Gantt chart.
- Group production based product properties to minimise changeover times (ie group all organic production together)
- Identify and resolve capacity issues
- Define critical control points and automate QC product sampling within the production process.
- Adjust product recipe to reflect changes in inventory
- Report and track production consumption and yields. Includes consumption of utilities, labour, machine time raw materials and intermediates. Also provides yield information for waste product, co products, by-products and rework.
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. (Remaining shelf life or depot days.)
- 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.