SYSPRO ERP for Food Facilitates Regulatory Compliance, Quality, Perishability, Faster Inventory Turns, Safety
SYSPRO, a provider of best-of-breed, award-winning enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for on-premise and cloud-based utilization, announced today that SYSPRO is exhibiting at the IFT Food Expo in Booth 4454, July 14 – 16, 2013, at McCormick Place South, Chicago. The SYSPRO exhibit will cover the myriad ways that SYSPRO ERP for Food handles the complexities of the food and beverage industry where the challenges of regulatory compliance, quality, perishability, the demand for faster inventory turns and deliveries and safety issues and time-to-market are all critical.
The SYSPRO display will detail how SYSPRO ERP for Food improves procurement efficiency, transaction speeds and responsiveness to customer demand. No matter the recipe, SYSPRO traceability monitors the food or beverage life cycle from initial ingredients purchases, through manufacture to finished goods, shipment and final delivery. In addition, SYSPRO solution engineers will explain how SYSPRO inventory management promotes the maintenance of low inventory levels and high service levels, while incorporating multiple units of measure and catch weights that enable accurate product costing and pricing.
The solution engineers will also detail the ways SYSPRO ERP for Food can help food and beverage manufacturers and distributors:
• Comply with Food Safety Regulations
• Manage Product and Raw Material Traceability
• Monitor Entire Supply Chain
• Optimize Management and Planning with Improved Visibility
• Control Costs to Increase Profitability
Mary Ann Yerage, Purchasing Manager, Gorant Chocolatier, indicating that Gorant’s choice of SYSPRO ERP was based on the software’s excellent reputation in the food industry, has outlined the efficiencies SYSPRO ERP has produced at the Boardman, Ohio-based company. Referencing costing accuracy and labor tracking, she noted that the company is now aware of actual costs. “We [now] have better visibility of inventory, know the location of all raw materials and the ability to see manufacturing and retail quantities in one system,” she said.
She also states that SYSPRO ERP has enabled the company to efficiently boost production and facilitate demand planning and forecasting. Referencing FDA traceability requirements, Yerage said that in the most recent 3rd party QA audit, SYSPRO Lot Traceability enabled Gorant to trace product and code in less than 45 minutes.
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