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Scheduling – a solution for improving on-time customer deliveries

Improving on-time customer deliveries, creates happier customers and ultimately improves cash flow. Therefore when moving production orders to take in account changes to the planned schedule, it’s paramount to have the visibility if the changes will negatively impact the customers required delivery date. ProcessForce provides a simple but powerful scheduling solution to manage the production […]

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Percentage Weight based Recipes for the food and beverage industry

Would you like to define and enter your product recipes into your ERP system using % weight values ? Does your current ERP solution force you to enter the recipe as basic quantity values,  because the system uses a traditional engineering based bill of material format?. Well ProcessForce, a process-oriented recipe-based ERP application provides you the flexibility […]

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What’s the business benefit of using batch properties?

Depending on your industry, business practices, and needs of regulations you may need to add and record characterstics or attributes (otherwise known as properties) to a specific batch record, for example:- Details of origin for caught fish and other seafoods Dimensions Results of quality control tests Active ingredient % for a drug By recording such […]

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Managing fixed batch size production processes

Across different industries there are many examples of fixed capacity batch size production for example:- Mixing Vessels for food preparation Aging Tanks for beverages Kilns for making bricks Non-continuous Ovens for bakeries Furnaces for melting metals These types of resource affect:- Process time for a manufacturing order Costing of resoMedia Libraryurces, fixed and variable overheads […]

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Do you have seasonal based recipes?

We’ve been in discussion with several bakeries over the last few months where they modify the recipe to manage seasonal adjustments of stabilizer to cater for products being produced during the summer and winter months. A ProcessForce solution would be to define two revisions of the same product, with different valid to and from dates. […]

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Customer complaints, the starting point for customer recalls

What’s the starting point of a product recall, bad press, regulatory body such as the FDA, end customer or distributor? Maybe your performing a product recall simulation to test you procedures? Normally it starts in the form of a complaint !. How do you track these today, offline database, post-its, or via Microsoft Excel?, Are complaints […]

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