Optimize the Food & Agriculture Supply Chain - From Crop to Plate - with our Fully Integrated Solutions

Evaluate all options for improving the business. Explore product mix, customer mix, supply planning with ingredients and dry goods sourcing, supply chain costs, and optimization of cost options to maximize margins. Collaborate across all roles and functions to build the best plan.

Manage inventory in multiple, concurrent units of measure where needed, and allow seamless processing in all units (e.g. pricing at the in-process scale). Manage all inventory formats, including customer-owned, customer-pegged (promised), made-to-order (private label), quarantined, pre-approved by quality, etc.. Manage all traceability issues, lot track & trace, quality recall management, etc.

Streamline PLM from product inception to disposal – and align the business’s product portfolio to its objectives. Transition from R&D to production in a well-planned, thoroughly coordinated manner.

Manage complex customer pricing including deep top-to-bottom logic to accommodate complex contractual pricing component details. Assign prices based on individual product characteristics. Handle promotional pricing issues connected to the physical logistics planning cycles (inventory, transportation, etc.). Implement automated price optimization based on demand. Compensate broker/distributor channels accurately, with links to the end customer where needed.

One system to handle: direct, indirect via brokers/distributors, B2B and B2C e-commerce and online stores.

Align analytics with strategic needs throughout your business process. Manage yield throughout the buying, production, storage, and logistics execution processes – focus this effort on critical control points rather than inefficient all-encompassing scope. Increase visibility to key performance areas for business leadership, real-time, in-process (no closes needed). Streamline end-of-month and end-of-year processes for fast, accurate completion. Leverage imbedded analytics for real-time feedback on critical issues, such as yield.

Start with the right level of granularity to allow management of margin at the right level of detail for your business – most consumer products businesses need visibility at the customer and product level of detail. Slice and dice your profitability analysis to see the effects of customer/revenue and product/cost mix, logistics execution, and other factors influencing profitability – use this information to improve the sales and operations planning process.