Food & Beverage ERP

Manufacturing food and beverage products can be a complex process. Not only do producers must keep up with inventory, packaging changes, price fluctuations, and supply chain management, but they must also remain compliant with industry statutory, safety, and environmental regulations. Plex’s food and beverage ERP software provides enterprise-wide visibility for food and beverage manufacturers, enabling total control of the manufacturing process.

What is an ERP System for the Food and Beverage Industry?

A food and beverage ERP system gives manufacturers a complete, end-to-end view of their operations. By bringing data from across the organization into a single platform, it enables teams to manage processes more efficiently and make better decisions using real-time information and actionable insights. 

These systems help streamline key manufacturing activities such as inventory management, order processing and customer relationship management. At the same time, they collect and analyze data across the production lifecycle, allowing companies to identify inefficiencies, improve performance, and respond more quickly to changing business needs.

Benefits of F&B ERP

Food and beverage ERP provides manufacturers with a wide range of benefits. These benefits include:

Quality Management

One of the key features of food and beverage ERP is the full traceability of ingredients across the entire manufacturing process, from supplier to shipping. Pair this with a holistic view of the operations, and food and beverage manufacturers maintain the quality of their products to help protect their brand reputation.

Supply Chain Planning

Food and beverage manufacturers must be able to adjust production to meet the fluctuating demands of customers. Food and beverage ERP provides manufacturers with the ability to accurately forecast demands and adjust inventory levels to reduce waste and losses.

Production Control

In food and beverage manufacturing, producers must be acutely aware of any date-controlled inventory and ingredients, the need for which can fluctuate with demand. With food and beverage ERP solutions, producers can easily control their production to meet fluctuating demands while minimizing losses on date-controlled inventory.

Compliance and Safety

Every food and beverage manufacturer knows just how important it is to remain compliant with all health and safety regulations. Food and beverage ERP software allows producers to streamline their checks and audits, perform mandatory quality checks with ease, and run mock audits in mere minutes rather than days. Additionally, should any affected products be shipped, with an end-to-end food and beverage ERP service, producers can quickly identify the affected products and immediately notify distributors and customers.

Applications in F&B Manufacturing

Our food and beverage ERP solutions are agile and scalable, allowing them to align with the specific needs of various F&B segments. Segments that can benefit from our food and beverage ERP software include:

Food Ingredients

Manufacturers of food ingredients must be acutely aware of the quality of their products to confirm food safety. End-to-end traceability provides them with the ability to monitor their products across the manufacturing process and easily identify issues, should they arise.

Prepared Foods

Prepared food manufacturers have large inventories of date-controlled products, which require strict monitoring of ingredients. Ingredient traceability with Plex F&B ERP enables prepared food manufacturers to track production from end to end and to confirm the quality of their products.

Frozen Foods

Frozen food producers must be able to adjust their production to meet the fluctuating demand of customers. With F&B ERP software from Plex, manufacturers can easily increase or decrease production, mitigating both risk and loss of product.

Snack Foods

Snack food manufacturers must be able to adjust to meet changing customer demands and fill rates. Plex F&B ERP solutions provide manufacturers with complete visibility and control over the manufacturing process, enabling them to increase or decrease production while limiting food waste.

Dairy and Ice Cream

Dairy producers must adhere to strict industry regulations to confirm the quality and safety of their products. F&B ERP provides the dairy industry with the ability to oversee the entire dairy product manufacturing process, from milk procurement to chilling center management, enabling total control for quality assurance.

Meat, Poultry, and Seafood

Producers of meat, poultry, and seafood products must deliver end-to-end compliance across the entire production chain, from livestock procurement and processing to storing and shipping. F&B ERP provides complete visibility over the production lifecycle, mitigating food safety risks with protein products.

Bakery

For commercial bakers, quality control and ingredient traceability are integral to delivering baked goods of the highest quality. Plex F&B ERP solutions offer total ingredient traceability, from supplier to shipping, to confirm that compliance regulations and quality thresholds are exceeded every time.

Private Label Manufacturing

Private label manufacturing comes with a host of unique challenges, including managing a multitude of formulas and standards. Plex food and beverage ERP software provides tracking, analysis, and quality management.

Confectionary

Confectionary manufacturing involves a varied assortment of recipes and customizations, and ingredients must constantly be tracked for safety and traceability. Food and beverage ERP enables confectionery manufacturers to track ingredients end-to-end in the production process to confirm quality and safety.

Beverage

Beverage manufacturing moves fast as new flavors and recipes pop up with increasing frequency. Food and beverage ERP solutions provide producers with complete visibility over the production process, helping to identify waste, compliance, or inefficiency issues quickly.

Pet Food

Like all F&B manufacturers, producers of pet foods must adhere to industry standards and meet regulation thresholds. Plex F&B ERP solutions provide pet food manufacturers with the visibility and maneuverability to remain compliant and mitigate risks.

Food & Beverage ERP Compliance

As previously mentioned, one of the key benefits of food and beverage ERP is that it enables manufacturers to remain compliant with industry rules and regulations intended to help prevent the spread of foodborne illnesses. Some FDA compliance initiatives include:

Hazardous and Critical Control Points (HACCP) Compliance

This initiative requires F&B manufacturers to identify any potential hazards that might exist in the production process. They must also develop a plan that establishes control points to capture and control those hazards should they arise.

FSMA Compliance

The Food Safety and Modernization Act is intended to help prevent food safety problems before they occur. It requires every F&B manufacturing facility to develop and implement a food defense plan.

CGMP Compliance

The Current Good Manufacturing Practices provide guidance for F&B manufacturers, such as maintaining facility cleanliness, to confirm that processed foods are safe for human consumption.

Plex Food & Beverage ERP Software Solutions

Plex Food and Beverage ERP software offers F&B manufacturers the ability to take complete control over the manufacturing process. Easily track ingredients from supply to shipping, adjust production to meet fluctuating demand, and confirm that all health and safety regulations are met, all from a single platform. Explore the Plex ERP system today to get started.