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The food and beverage industry faces unprecedented regulation as consumers and governments worldwide demand high levels of safety and quality control for food, including “farm-to-fork” and “boat-to-plate” traceability. To help meet these demands, Advantive offers flexible ERP, SPC, WMS, and MES solutions specifically built for food and beverage manufacturers, from small independent manufacturers to large multinational players.
To maximize profits while improving enhancing food safety monitoring and control, Advantive provides food and beverage ERP and SPC software solutions to modern food manufacturers worldwide. Our highly specialized manufacturing systems are designed to help you streamline processes, reduce inventory, gain real-time visibility from your suppliers, co-packers, and third-party producers, and increase your bottom line. Core features include:
Paper and spreadsheets can no longer get the job done given today’s need for real-time and accurate quality data that is visible from the production floor to the corner office. With Advantive’s food and beverage software, you get a single solution to automate key data entry processes and simplify the way you collect data to provide complete transparency across your entire operations.
Modernize your production with Advantive’s world-class WMS and MES software designed for food and beverage processors. From produce to proteins to multi-ingredient, our solutions help you automatically connect to scales and palletizers to bring floor data to the office. Our food and beverage manufacturing software not only offers a clear vision of your production flow but also fortifies inventory tracking through in-process steps and refines your production process via yield tracking, catchweight production scheduling, and recipe management.
Streamlining warehouse operations is the cornerstone of every implementation of Advantive’s food and beverage manufacturing software. The software efficiently scans crates, boxes, or entire pallets directly into your inventory and swiftly checks them into their designated location. It provides real-time tracking of available ingredients and finished goods, as well as their exact whereabouts. To further enhance efficiency, our system incorporates automatic FIFO management and GS1 labeling to ensure smooth lot tracing processes.
Make auditing and compliance simpler with lot genealogy and traceability, simplified auditing, and complete visibility into the entire manufacturing lifecycle. Easily track raw material (ingredients) lot codes throughout the your entire food and beverage manufacturing operations. For investigation purposes, genealogical “trees” can be created for any lot. These reports allow you to determine:
Report with confidence using built-in tools that help food and beverage manufacturers comply with government regulations and industry standards for food quality and safety. Our world-class manufacturing solutions boast built-in checklists and workflow alerting features needed to comply with Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) and Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOP). You can incorporate workflow requirements at the shop floor level, providing automatic data collection prompts to operators. We also offer a real-time Dynamic Scheduler which provides visual checklists to operators, reminding them when to perform HACCP, SSOP, and other critical quality checks.
When enabled, database auditing provides full traceability for any modification, edit, or change to any database record. Traceability records are easily viewed in a variety of ways, but they cannot be edited. Whenever a record modification or deletion is attempted, the Reason for Change tracking feature forces users to select a reason for the modification from a drop-down list. Additionally, free-form comments are required. When specified, a Change History and Reason for Change Report can accompany any chart printout.
Manufacturers in the food and beverage industry must also comply with filling requirements for Net Content Control (i.e., weight). Our solutions include a Net Content Control feature to support both the U.S. Department of Commerce Maximum Allowable Variation (MAV) and European Union Tolerable Negative Error (TNE) and T1/T2 requirements, plus related Net Content Control reporting to support the needs of global manufacturers. Many of our food and beverage manufacturing customers see fast ROI based solely on reduced “giveaway” or overfilling of product using the Net Content Control functionality.
Advantive’s food and beverage manufacturing software comes equipped with an intuitive reporting suite for instant, up-to-date visibility into your business operations. With several pre-designed reports and easily customizable reporting to fit your comprehensive MRP requirements, our food and beverage solutions integrate with your existing ERP system to deliver valuable insights that boost operational agility, execute virtual recalls in mere minutes, and provide transparency throughout your factory.
Fully IoT enabled, Advantive’s WMS and MES solutions for food and beverage manufacturers can integrate with your connected scales, inline printers, labelers, and even advanced robotics. Whether they’re in your plant now or part of your future vision, our production software accommodates your needs. At Advantive, we partner with trustworthy, innovative hardware solutions providers, from mobile printers to RF technology.
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