Tackle Your Toughest Enterprise Challenges with Aptean Food & Beverage ERP Enterprise Edition
The food and beverage industry is becoming more complex and competitive every day, and large enterprises like yours are tasked with keeping up with consumer demands, safety regulations and sustainability efforts while maintaining a healthy bottom line. A unified, robust ERP solution can be an important tool in your efforts to succeed in this fast-moving marketplace.
Major Challenges Facing Food and Beverage Enterprises From tailoring your products to match the latest trends in consumer behavior and ensuring compliance with health standards to managing the traceability of all your ingredients and maintaining uncompromising quality, the list of crucial considerations for your food and beverage enterprise is long. If your offerings don’t align with customers’ desires, the profitability of your lines will suffer. Not paying proper attention to safety checks can result in stoppages, or worse, a lawsuit. Without full visibility over your materials, you risk unlabeled allergens ending up where they shouldn’t be. And for a business of your size, managing all of these concerns effectively will necessitate agility, flexibility and versatility, especially if your products are crossing borders and being shipped worldwide. Our single, fully-integrated system–Aptean Food & Beverage ERP Enterprise Edition–gives you complete control over your supply chain and all pertinent data and helps you manage your processes, fine-tuning them with intelligent analysis. Our solution is also designed to keep your business completely compliant with all health and safety regulations, giving you peace of mind.
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Better yet, the visualizations our platform can provide are based on assessments of your metrics at an organizational level, leading to actionable insights that will empower you to act with agility and achieve results. The entire platform is also deployed and maintained from the cloud, keeping up-front costs low and reliability high with our redundant servers and dependable support teams. Finally, the cumbersome and costly customizations that a generic solution might require are rarely necessary with our offering, as the majority of food and beverage industry-specific needs are covered. The next section describes just a few of the key features designed for businesses like yours.
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Strong Supply Chain Foundation – Track all materials forward and backward in the supply chain and manage an enormous number of product variations while supporting attributes like breed, cut, age, variety, region of origin and packaging specification. Additional tools for producer accreditation, supply specification, EDI, product tracking, product specifications, allergens and more come built in. Food Safety and Compliance – Ensure that all products containing allergens are marked appropriately and that your other lines are free from contamination. Rest assured knowing our solution will keep your operations within compliance in all of the countries that you do business, and you’re always fully prepared in the event of an audit or recall. Keep Customers Happy – We give you the tools you need to ensure orders aren’t dropped at the last minute. Our sales order processing features include customer items lists, calling lists, a full trading module, trading board, proof of delivery functionality and pricing enhancements. Aptean Food & Beverage ERP is a truly end-to-end solution for your entire operation. Streamline Operations and Manufacturing – Enable flexible control and end-to-end management of your warehouses to optimize space, improve inventory accuracy and maximize throughput. Know exactly what materials are used in which lots, and mitigate the impact of variance in raw materials with robust planning, monitoring and management tools for production of all types within your dynamic environment. Get a Deeper Understanding of Costs – While most business systems can capture basic costs across the supply chain, Aptean Food & Beverage Enterprise Edition lets you go much deeper, tracking even the most detailed costs, including haulage, labor, machine costs, duty, rework and more. Enable Global Operations – Aptean Food & Beverage ERP Enterprise Edition gives you the ability to act on a larger scale than ever before. With multi-currency support, a multilingual interface and intercompany functionality you can rely on a truly agile system to ensure you’re ready for the global stage.
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Optimized Transportation – Cost, plan and consolidate the transportation requirements for sales, transfer and purchase orders. The system identifies optimized routing, load capacity and mileage while also meeting temperature and packaging requirements, and it can also handle documentation for inter-company and cross-border trade. Advanced Quality Control – Customize and implement the quality controls that matter most for your product lines and set trigger points for deviations outside acceptable range. Use time-based, calculated and conditional tests automatically and analyze results at main terminals. Real-time Insights – All facts and figures collected are updated immediately in the system, allowing you to identify errors quickly and resolve them. Get to the bottom of what’s working and what’s not with robust data visualizations. Make more informed decisions on the fly, capitalizing on openings in the marketplace and improving or replacing underperforming products. Automatic Updates – Never miss out on the latest features with automatically applied system updates. Because there is only one version of our software, but it is constantly being improved, you can rest assured you’re always equipped with all possible tools to tackle your toughest problems.
Our Value Proposition Aptean Food & Beverage ERP Enterprise Edition is built on more than 25 years of food and beverage industry experience and expertise. We know the most common pain points of large businesses and have designed our solution to alleviate these concerns with a robust, accessible and scalable solution. Our system is built on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Supply Chain Management platform, allowing it to integrate seamlessly with other Microsoft programs, including the Office Suite, PowerBI and new artificial intelligence applications. We’ve partnered with Microsoft for a number of years, so we’re confident that as their systems evolve and improve, so do our solutions, future-proofing your operations for what may come. By implementing Aptean Food & Beverage ERP Enterprise Edition, you stand to improve your traceability, automation, compliance, reporting and real-time data capture efforts in one fell swoop. You’ll also have a far greater degree of control over your supply chain, partner relationships and financial figures. Ready to propel your enterprise forward with Aptean? Contact us today to hear more about how our solutions can serve your business.
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Are You Ready to Learn More? Interested to see how Aptean Food & Beverage ERP Enterprise Edition can help you better manage your food or beverage enterprise? Contact us at info@aptean.com or visit www.aptean.com.
About Aptean
Aptean is one of the world’s leading providers of industry-specific software. Our enterprise resource planning and supply chain solutions are uniquely designed to meet the needs of specialized manufacturers and distributors, while our compliance solutions serve specific markets such as finance and life sciences. With both cloud and on-premise deployment options, Aptean’s products, services and unmatched expertise help businesses of all sizes, across many industries, to scale and succeed. For more information, visit www.aptean.com. Copyright @ Aptean 2021. All rights reserved.