Common requirements of food manufacturers and
distributors include:
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Streamlining operations.
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Optimize business operations.
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Goods tracking.
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Product Labeling.
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Product quality testing and control.
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Truck loading and routing.
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Time constraints.
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Allocating inventory.
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Shorts and substitutions.
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Document generation.
Automating and integrating business processing with ERP
solutions includes not only food specific customer service and inventory
control, but are likely to include modules featuring/including the following:
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Financial management.
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Rebate processing.
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Distribution management.
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Manufacturing management.
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Route management.
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Warehouse management.
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Retail management.
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Direct Store Delivery (DSD) and Fleet
management.
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Sales force automation.
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E-Business.
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Business Intelligence.
At some point in
time everyone in the food industry struggles.
It may be when they have outgrown manual processing or
they struggle with warehouse and inventory control issues. Perhaps they once had a comprehensive
solution that they have now outgrown.
Maybe their systems have been patched and included numerous add-ons and
now they are frustrated with all the upkeep.
Outgrowing a
solution forces organizations to look at same vendor upgrades, in house modification
efforts, or the search for intelligence.
How much is too much, what is the cost of doing nothing
at all? How much overtime is involved
with your current operations? How
accurate is the inventory system in place now?
Are your customers asking for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) or
E-Business solutions? Are you losing
customers due to poor customer service?
Can you accurately tell a customer when their product is ready for
shipment? Do your customers receive what
they order in an acceptable time frame (their time frame, not yours)?
Does your staff
tell your customers what they cannot get, what will not work or do they get
straight forward answers of what they will get and when?
Dolvin Consulting works. We work hard to help you find and implement ERP solutions
that will streamline your operations, reduce costs and help you to become more
profitable. We are not here to tell you
how to run your business. We are here to
help you find new tools that will enable your staff to do what they do better,
quicker, and with greater efficiency.
Contact
us today to see how we can help your team.
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