SAP Business One and ProcessForce cost calculation
In today’s publication, I would like to focus on an important element, which is the calculation of production costs. In this point, the functionality of SAP Business One is very limited. That’s why in our integrated ProcessForce solution dedicated for advanced production, we have created a separate tool. This functionality is called “costing”.
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Managing production logistics using SAP Business One with ProcessForce
In this article I would like to bring your attention to a crucial subject when it comes to customer service: execution of an order and its handling in SAP Business One with ProcessForce. Of course by that I mean the whole process, from receiving a customer order, through production, to the moment of shipping goods to the customer. The whole process, from the manufacturer’s point of view, can be divided into two main topics: sales order and manufacturing order areas.
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The 6 key advantages of using SAP Business One in your company
The only constant of business is that it changes all the time. Every company tries to find a solution suitable for its specific profile that will give it an advantage over its competitors along with complex client service as well as process and costs optimization. Companies often develop at such a rate that keeping systems and tools up to date is neither practically nor financially viable. Additionally the maintenance and integration of multiple systems often results in analytics disruption and lack of data consistency
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Food and Beverage marketing kit now available in SAP Virtual Agency!
Industry related marketing makes you stand out in the crowd, by illustrating your domain expertise and relating to the customer, thus giving a competitive edge. With great support from the SAP Business One global marketing team we have pulled together a full marketing pack for the Food and Beverage industry, to support our partners […]
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How do Good Manufacturing Practices and ERP work together?
Within the Food and Beverage industry, a common voiced concern is audits and regulatory compliance, and across the industry there are many standards, such as Safe Quality Food (SQF), British Retail Consortium (BRC) and others which are HACCP based food safety and quality management systems Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Hazard Analysis and Critical […]
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Scheduling Allergen optimisation while 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. But as a Food and Beverage manufacturer it’s not just a […]
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As a Food and Beverage company, does the FDA and BRC influence your Top 10 ERP manufacturing requirements?
As a result of greater reported health incidents due to poor labeling, cross contamination and false ingredient declaration across the global supply chain has led to increasing regulation. For example the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), with respect to Foreign Supplier Verification Programs for imports, the setting of a minimum recall standard of 4 hours […]
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Its all about the Fat
Within in our daily diet we should be aware of the amount of fat we are eating, both good and bad. But for the Dairy industry, fat is good and the more they get, the higher production yields of products such as cream and cheese will occur. As a consequence of making cheese, cream is […]
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The Complexities of Expiry Date Control
In a previous blog post we talked about yield and how this can be different from company to company and product to product, and for expiry date management this is very similar. The life of a product or an ingredient can vary greatly, for example making a frozen ready meal or a sterilized sauce the […]
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How to manage yield?
Yield is a very common requirement across many process and semi-process manufacturing industries and on the surface it looks very simple, but how enterprises manage yield varies considerably depending on the raw materials being consumed, the product or products being produced, and the production process. Some enterprises plan for yield to increase the amount of […]
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