Inventory management tracks, adjusts and moves ingredients, packaging, intermediates, co-products, by-products and finished goods, in terms of their QC statuses, weights, volumes, and units, as well as plant locations and licenses. Here are just a few supported transactions:

• Maintain allergens, safety, certifications, and other industry specific attributes and documents
• Allocate inventory based upon expiry dates, certifications and quality status
• Adjust batch jobs based upon the variable characteristics of inventory
• Execute warehousing tasks with mobile devices

Lot controlled inventory is managed from receiving into production thru shipping, thus maintaining the lineage of all raw materials, intermediates and finished products, including co-products and by-products. Here are just a few supported transactions:

• Auto assign lot numbers during receiving and production
• Mandated capture and validation of lot numbers throughout the product lifecycle
• Execute “bi-directional” searches in seconds using a graphical lot traceability tool
• Generate recall letters for suppliers and customers

Quality control and quality assurance capabilities are built all processes managed by our food manufacturing software, from receiving into production thru shipping. Here are just a few supported transactions:

• Setup QC tests with accepted values, tolerance values, sample and recount values
• Execute inspection plans, checklists and QC tests against products, people and equipment
• Generate COA and production deviation documents
• Manage adverse reporting, customer complaints, deviations, and nonconformance situations

Production manages the mix, blend, fill, assemble, and other manufacturing processes for intermediates and finished goods, including co-products and by-products, across facilities. Here are just a few supported transactions:

• Dynamically sizing, linking and scheduling dependent batch jobs together
• Managing equipment and resource availability and capacities
• Reworking intermediates and finished goods and capture deviations
• Automatically back flushing inventory for partially or fully
  closed jobs

Formulation allows multiple users to manage multiple specification versions for products, including intermediates, co-products and by-products, separately from their packaging specifications (BOM). Here are just a few supported transactions:

• Dynamically adjust ingredient weights/volumes to meet property target values
• Account for fixed and variable labor costs, including consumable costs
• Analyze and compare specifications / versions
• Employ multi-level workflow approval process

Industry specific compliance are built into every process to ensure federal and industry specific regulatory mandates are met. Here are just a few supported transactions:

• Alert formulators when specs exceed industry established levels
• Mandate the capture of item, user and location data (CFR 11)
• Maintain key transactional history for auditor reports (e.g. Master Batch Records)
• Generate industry required product and safety labels and documents

MPS creates the optimal number of batch jobs required to meet current and forecasted demand, then MRP creates the optimal number of purchase orders to meet the scheduled production schedule. Here are just a few supported transactions:

• Establish short, medium and long-range planning periods
• Run by facility, or by an item or a range of items across facilities
• Consolidate supply and demand across facilities
• Perform “what-if analysis” while planning production