Microsoft Dynamics AX for the Food and Beverage Sector

Microsoft Dynamics AX helps your people keep your products safe, develop more successful new products and meet the demands of your market by providing supply chain management solutions.

Benefits include:

• Food distribution software to ensure improved safety by tracking products from source to the shelf — so if products were to be recalled you could execute the recall process quickly and efficiently.
• Develop new products and get them to market more quickly by integrating product development with manufacturing and sales.
• Decrease stock-outs on retailer shelves by having greater visibility of demand and overall inventory control for consumables.
• Sell products based on units or catch weights with complete integration into your financial, inventory and billing systems.
• Integrate with radio frequency identification (RFID) and manage inventory effectively.

Food safety
Track items from the time of materials purchase to the time of production and sale with lot and location control. Retrieve data easily to respond to recall notices or queries about how the item was made and where it may currently be in use.

Advanced supply chain management solutions
Automate inventory control for consumables and warehouse processes to help move goods efficiently to distribution centres and stores. Be better equipped to negotiate with retailers about product costs, timing and product placement.

Campaign management
Track sales and inventory based on key performance indicators (KPIs). Calculate delivery dates for complex orders using a mix of cross-docking, internal movement and vendor-ordering activities. Automatically calculate delivery dates based on predefined trade parameters.

Improve operational efficiency
Streamline operations on the shop floor and beyond, including research and development, administration, product life-cycle management, and customer service, by automating processes and integrating project, customer and financial information. Bid and execute contracts effectively to reduce the time needed to procure materials and manufacture or package products. By streamlining product development, manufacturing, sales, customer service and delivery, your business can improve design, control costs, monitor quality and serve customers effectively.

Support global design teams
Shorten time to market for new product innovations by integrating processes and managing programs
effectively. By enabling global collaboration of design, integrating innovation into the manufacturing process and collaborating effectively with suppliers, partners and customers, your people can deliver lower-cost products more quickly and enhance customer satisfaction.

Gain a positive ROI
Because Food and Beverage Manufacturing for Microsoft Dynamics AX is built on proven, reliable Microsoft technologies and comes with one-stop support from Microsoft Business Solutions Support Services, your business can gain a positive return on your investment on its food distribution software and because they are supported by a wizard-based configuration and system setup tool, Microsoft Dynamics AX solutions have been shown to significantly reduce implementation times for a lower total cost of ownership for customers.*

*Nucleus Research, Inc. The Real ROI from Axapta, Research Note E116, October 2004.

Features overview:

Meeting unique requirements
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