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The generally high volume, low margin nature of food and beverage businesses – coupled with their inherent complexity and time critical nature – makes it imperative to have a complete understanding of every aspect of your business.
This is critical to not only ensure profitability but to meet the ongoing demands of customers, particularly large supermarket chains and other retailers, and manage all aspects of daily operations.
Through our experience in the food and beverage industry we have come to understand that while each business is unique, there are many common challenges, including:
- Reducing margins
- Short lead times on customer orders
- Stringent quality control requirements
- Full traceability of the supply chain
- Forecast and demand driven production
- Perishability of ingredients
- Limited product shelf life.
Gcorp Food and Beverage helps to manage these challenges by providing a powerful, simple to use solution which gives you the information you need, when you need it.
Features at a glance
- Fully integrated financial accounting, distribution and production suite of software
- Real time processing (i.e. no transaction batch processes)
- Recurring orders for suppliers and customers
- Recipe management and product costing
- Batch control from ingredients through to finished product
- Bulk processing of large customer remittance files
- Sales forecasting
- Simple master production planning and scheduling facility
- Support for co-products and by-products
- Support for Reorder Point (ROP) control and Material Requirement Planning (MRP) driven purchasing
- Real time perpetual inventory control
- Shop floor data collection
- Work in progress tracking
- Real time usage and sales statistics
- Support for remote offices/users
- Comprehensive price matrix and promotional pricing
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