ERP in Food & Beverage
Benefits of An ERP That Supports Food & Beverage Businesses
- Complete tracking from ingredients, to final product phase
- Automatic recipe control and scheduling of production
- Get accurate margin, costing, and waste analysis
- See inventory across locations in real-time
- Enhance scalability for your small business with multi-site operations
ERP Software for Food & Beverage Businesses
If you are an emerging business in the food and beverage industry, you already know how fiercely competitive and highly regulated the industry is. The slightest change in the input cost of materials or product sales can affect your business operations.
Food and beverage SMEs depend heavily on an efficient supply chain and complex production processes to meet manufacturing standards and compliance requirements. Added to this are the demands of product tracking and changing industrial regulations, which bring together a unique set of challenges for any big or small business in the food and beverage sector.
The good news is that these challenges can be addressed with the right ERP for the food industry, featuring a set of tools that can help your business manage various processes, from forecasting, planning and inventory to logistics and production.
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a popular platform of choice for food and beverage businesses in manufacturing, processing and distribution, as well as restaurants, and catering functions. It’s a cloud-based, centralised, end-to-end ERP solution that, when customised by a Microsoft Solutions Partner like Brookland Solutions, can support your F&B SME with tasks specific to your sector.
We’re a silver partner for Business Central, helping your business operate better and boost growth.
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Why F&B Businesses Choose Business Central
From perishable products and short shelf lives to tight margins and strict traceability control, SMEs in the food and beverage industry have to face complex operational hurdles. With Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, you can meet these demands with powerful tools that help your team act quickly and confidently.
Dynamics 365 Business Central is a comprehensive ERP solution that connects core operations of your food and beverage business to a single, cloud-backed interface. This system brings your finance, HR, warehousing, quality assurance, production, sales, customer service and logistics functions together, allowing you a complete view of your operations.
With Brookland Solutions as your Business Central Partner, you can maximise the capabilities of this software, whether it’s streamlining waste and dispatch operations or monitoring profitability. We can help you with analysis, implementation, training, and support. Get started today.
Features of A Food & Beverage ERP Software
Here are some features that make Business Central the best ERP for your F&B business:
Batch & Expiry Tracking
Tracking products by batch and expiry dates is non-negotiable when your food and beverage business handles products with high perishability or short shelf life. Business Central’s features make it easier to track batches and ingredients, manage lot numbers, and ensure all products meet food safety standards.
Recipe & Production Management
Dynamics 365 Business Central helps you conduct a complete breakdown of costs within your products, and can help you identify opportunities to improve profit margins. Use this information to manage recipes while tracking raw material usage and variations in the production costs. These real-time insights help you optimise ingredient procurement and ensure that production schedules are in sync with your inventory.
Allergen & Regulatory Compliance
Food and beverage-customised ERP softwares can support the automatic generation of product labels, ensuring they are compliant with the current food safety regulations. Furthermore, Business Central add-ons like the Allergen app help you flag allergens at the ingredient level and generate food labels accordingly. You can also store documentation and certificates for BRCGS,
Warehouse & Inventory Control
For organisations in food manufacturing, an ERP can help with advanced warehouse and inventory management. These tools allow your business to manage complex production processes more efficiently, and create and manage production schedules based on real-time data. Use the inventory management features to manage the introduction of new products and reduce production delays.
Margin & Costing Insights
The Advanced Costing function in Empowered Business Central acts as your cost management tool to gain a detailed understanding of the cost of production, ingredient usage, raw material costs, overheads, and more. Use this information to generate customised reports to monitor key metrics such as cost per unit, yield rates, and production efficiency. These insights highlight the areas of cost savings and make data-backed decisions to boost profits.
Sales Orders & Multi-Channel Fulfilment
Business Central gives you the flexibility to handle sales orders from wholesale, retail, and e-commerce. This system allows you to automate order processing, pricing, discounts, and fulfilment across channels in a hassle-free manner.
Why Choose Brookland Solutions?
As ERP implementation and support partners, we know an ERP system may not work to its potential with a one-size-fits-all approach. We understand the unique challenges that food and beverage companies face and know that they need more than fragmented, generic systems to solve them.
This is why at Brookland Solutions, we provide F&B business’ with tailored solutions that align with their complex supply chain, production, and compliance requirements. Whether it’s handling the nuances of batch manufacturing or reading the fine print of food safety regulations, our consultants have a deep domain knowledge of the F&B industry. With this, we will analyse, understand, build and implement Dynamics 365 Business Central so that it works seamlessly with how your business operates.
Whether you’re looking to upgrade your current system or are new to embracing an ERP for your food and beverage business, we can help. Brookland Solutions can help refine your ERP solution so that it reduces manual processes, eases operational headaches, and builds a sustainable system for the long run.
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