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Revolutionising the Food & Beverage Industry with Innovative ERP Solutions

From bulk foodstuffs to fresh produce and confectionary, the food and drink industry has unique business requirements such as:

  • Fast product turnaround
  • Highest product quality
  • Lowest cost and zero waste
  • Accurate regulatory compliance and traceability
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Baked Goods

Epicor maximises production visibility and control to help avoid wastage of short shelf-life products. These features streamline operations and boost productivity.

Canned Foods

Manufacture efficiently with visibility of raw material in WIP to avoid material losses and over-issue. Lot traceability ensures food safety and compliance with stringent safety requirements.

Processed Foods

Epicor ERP provides processed food producers immediate traceability information for past production batches as well as automated traceability recording from shop floor scanners.

Dairy

Epicor ERP offers dairy manufacturers capabilities such as lot traceability to ensure product safety and compliance, recipe management for consistent product quality, and automated quality control to maintain high standards.

Meat

Meat product manufacturers can leverage Epicor ERP’s industry-specific capabilities, including batch processing for efficient production runs, lot traceability for food safety compliance, and yield optimisation to maximise output.

Confectionary

Epicor ERP empowers confectionery manufacturers by providing real-time production and inventory visibility, industry-specific workflows for better process optimisation, as well as integrated compliance and reporting tools.

Pet Foods

Pet food manufacturers can ensure regulatory compliance, enhance their supply chain management, optimise production scheduling, and improve customer service levels with Epicor ERP.

Benefits

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Precision in Inventory Management

Epicor ERP solutions excel in enhancing inventory management for food and beverage manufacturers, supporting precise control and efficiency in every step of the supply chain. Sophisticated supply chain control and collaboration capabilities help you:

  • Streamline procurement: Optimise purchasing processes with automated workflows, reducing lead times and costs.
  • Keep raw materials flowing: Dig into comprehensive insights into inventory levels, order statuses, and supplier performance.
  • Quickly respond to market changes: With a composable ERP design, Epicor makes it easier to implement process change whenever you need to.
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Regulatory & Compliance Control

Epicor ERP solutions are meticulously designed to address the intricate regulatory and quality management requirements of food and beverage manufacturers.

Key features include:

  • Automated compliance tracking: Maintain adherence to industry regulations with fewer manual efforts and errors.
  • Quality control management: Connect your quality management activities through to supplier returns and accounts payable, meeting both internal and external standards.
  • Audit-ready reporting: Track and manage every stage of production for full compliance, from raw materials to finished products.
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Drink factory production

A Connected Approach to Variable Product Processes

Epicor ERP integrates every aspect of the manufacturing cycle, so you can focus on getting better faster, with the flexibility to meet your unique production demands.

  • Adaptive process control: Tailor production workflows to meet specific manufacturing requirements.
  • Real-time data analytics: Gain instant insights for informed decision-making and process optimisation.
  • Material Requirements Planning (MRP): Intelligently forecast and manage raw material needs to better align inventory with production schedules.
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A Digital Foundation for Success - With Efficient IT

Epicor’s cloud ERP deepens your connections to customers, business partners, and equipment without building more tech debt for your IT team.

From mobile access on the shop floor to instant communication with key suppliers, you can do more with the same IT resources. And, moving your ERP to the cloud puts Epicor security experts on your team, 24x7x365.

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Challenges We Help Solve

Inventory Management

Inventory management for Food & Beverage manufacturing requires extensive visibility and advanced controls. Epicor ERP solutions provide sophisticated tools for real-time inventory tracking, automated reordering, and demand forecasting. This comprehensive approach can ensure optimal stock levels, minimise waste, and lead to significant cost savings in inventory-related expenses.

Rapid Product Development

In the fast-paced environment of Food & Beverage manufacturing, product development can be a daunting task. Epicor ERP streamlines this process with integrated development tools that enhance collaboration and track development stages, helping to accelerate the time-to-market for new products.

Quality Control

Maintaining stringent quality control is paramount in Food and Beverage manufacturing. Epicor QMS can provide robust quality control workflows to enable advanced monitoring of production processes and traceability, centralise documentation, and help ensure that every product meets desired quality standards.

Batch Production

Food and Beverage manufacturers often struggle with the complexities of batch manufacturing. Epicor ERP allows effective scheduling, resource allocation, and process management. These advanced production capabilities help deliver consistency and quality in each batch, while minimising production time and reducing operational costs.

Overall Equipment Effectiveness

Epicor Advanced MES uses IoT sensors to gather data from machines and operators, providing real-time insights into production metrics and operational analytics visually. It enables scheduling with tooling changeovers and offers extensive visibility into equipment and inventory through IoT data. It also enhances operational efficiency and decision-making by initiating maintenance alerts upon detecting equipment degradation.

Resources

Jaleel bottles of water

S.M. Jaleel & Company
Yogurth factory closeup

BV Dairy
Whole grains in bowls

Federal Oats Mills Sdn Bhd

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Thousands of manufacturers rely on Epicor software to help them grow and scale. Bring us your questions. Tell us what's working and what's not. We'll work with you to curate the right solution for your business.

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