Aptean Food & Beverage ERP

Aptean Food & Beverage ERP is a specialized ERP purpose-built for food manufacturers and distributors. With a single ERP software solution, companies can manage all aspects of their operations—from the time materials enter the facility to the time the finished product is delivered.

Key benefits of Aptean Food & Beverage ERP include:

• Improved forecasting, planning, and budgeting accuracy with integrated financial management.
• Full recall and traceability of products to ensure safety, quality, and compliance.
• Valuable insight into critical data so that your team can make better business decisions.
• Reduced implementation costs and risks, and accelerated time to value by removing the need to customize a generic ERP solution.

Aptean Food & Beverage ERP Features

Aptean Food & Beverage ERP offers a broad set of functionality that was developed specifically for the food industry. Key features include:

• Production Planning & Forecasting: View manufacturing activities and access grower settlement features that automatically calculate payments using grade-out and pack-out methodologies specific to agricultural products.
• Quality Management: Purpose-built functionality supports diverse product variations, including weight classifications, regional origin, and packaging formats. It supports meat and protein processors with cut specifications, breed types, and age tracking. Automated sanitation and safety scheduling help maintain food safety protocols.
• Food Safety/Compliance: Leverage traceability, scheduling, and quality functionality to optimize your compliance efforts with global food safety initiatives and regulations.
• Warehouse/Inventory: Manage picks, putaways, and containers to easily keep track of inventory and its movement throughout your warehouse.
• Manufacturing: Integrate production scheduling and batch management for more accurate forecasting and cost-effective manufacturing.
• Product Costing: Calculate gross margin per product line at budgeted standard costs vs. actuals, use per count and per weight measures for revenue, cost of sale and margin, and summarize data by multiple criteria.
• Catch Weight: Maintain your inventory records according to two units of measure, making it possible to capture the exact weights of your random weight items. Handle and process items according to one unit, but cost and price them by the other, allowing you to sell an item by the case, but price it by the pound.
• Consignment Management: Costs associated with each transaction can be allocated to each specific consignment for processes throughout the supply chain – from import, logistics and production all the way to delivery.
• Item Allergens: List the allergens that are present in your products, then assign them to your raw materials and manufactured items. Give your production scheduling personnel full visibility as to which upcoming activities will contain allergens, so that they may plan and schedule accordingly.
• Business Intelligence: Monitor performance with a reliable management information systems to make the right decisions from a strategic, tactical and operational perspective.
• Finance: Gain greater visibility and insight into business performance and ensure forecasting, planning and budgeting accuracy.
• Sales: Account for trade rebates and commissions, and better manage pricing and customer relationships.
• Purchasing: Leverage historical and real time data to inform your purchasing schedule and better manage forecasting.
• EDI (Electronic Data Interchange): Automate electronic document exchange processes with customers and vendors.