food industryERPSolution
one Introduction to the Food Industry:
The food industry in our country is a highly competitive industry. Although the profit margin is low, the market space is huge, and there is significant room for improvement in both production and sales. In the future food market, consumption and demand will shift from pursuing quantity to pursuing nutrition, quality, safety, convenience, and diversity. Therefore, the development of the food industry has great prospects and potential, but the risk is relatively low. According to statistical data, recently10Over the years, the Chinese food industry has averagedten percentThe rapid growth has occupied a very important position in the national economy.
Although the food industry has a wide range of categories and different manufacturing methods, equipment sizes, and structural forms, these manufacturing processes can be classified and summarized. The basic operational units of food engineering generally include material conveying, cleaning, grading, crushing, mixing, separation, emulsification, heat transfer, concentration, drying, refrigeration, vacuum operation, and packaging. The complexity of food processing not only reflects the level of industrial technology, but also indicates the size of economic benefits. The finer the processing, the higher the degree of comprehensive utilization, and the higher the added value of the product.
two Brief explanation of industry characteristics:
●The food industry is a completely free competitive industry with small barriers, low technological content, low entry barriers, but fierce competition;
●Small products, large markets, low unit price of food, but high consumption;
●The vitality of the industry is eternal, food is a necessity for people's lives, the consumer level is broad, and enterprises are less affected by social and economic fluctuations;
●There are many product varieties, large production volumes, and usually shelf life restrictions;
●Brand and sales network are the primary conditions for winning in competition;
●Frequent price adjustments and flexible sales strategies;
●Having a large number of sales customers and frequent business, it is necessary to manage multiple sales channels;
●Need to respond quickly and deliver customer orders in a timely manner;
●Formulaic production;
●High degree of production automation;
●There is a need for consignment management;
●In order to promote sales, there is often a need for unpacking, merging, and combining packaging;
●Tracking batches, quality control is the most important aspect in food production. Tracking production and feeding according to batches can help companies improve product quality and analyze problems that arise during production;
three Key points and common challenges in industry management
1、Recipe Management
Food companies engage in formulaic production with a high degree of confidentiality. Each improvement in the formulation requires modification and archiving of the BOM for subsequent tracking and inquiry.
2. Batch tracking and shelf life management
Food companies have strict quality management for raw materials, intermediate production processes, and finished products, often requiring traceability and tracking from finished products to semi-finished products, raw materials, suppliers, etc. Therefore, there are high requirements for batch management; Food usually has a shelf life, so it is necessary to manage product inventory in the warehouse area based on the shelf life.
3、The packaging method is flexible and requires recording multiple units of measurement simultaneously
The procurement, storage, and requisition of raw materials may require multiple packaging methods to be recorded and converted simultaneously. There may also be multiple packaging measurement units for the same product, which increases the difficulty of sales statistics or cost calculations.
4. Combination and disassembly management
During the sales process, different packaging gift boxes will be paired with promotional plans for sale. After the corresponding promotion period ends, they will be disassembled and repackaged separately before being sold. The combination or disassembly process will also incur certain labor costs, increasing product costs.
5Management of commodity prices
The same product may adopt different pricing methods due to different customer forms, channels, regions, sales methods, and sales quantities; When new products are launched or existing products are adjusted in price, corresponding pricing strategies should be developed for different customers simultaneously.
There are many salespeople, and it is often difficult to achieve strict price control.
The same product may correspond to multiple prices, making it difficult for business personnel to determine which price to use when accepting orders.
4、 Blue Lingtong Food IndustryERPSystem solution ideas and plans:
The food industry has a wide variety of products and raw materials, with a high level of automation in the production site, and workshop control is not sufficientERPThe control focus of the system, while the core of enterprise management is how to ensure the long-term stable operation of production equipment. However, food enterprises have strong characteristics in batch tracking, formula management, joint product management, combination disassembly management, multiple packaging measurement management, credit limit management, commodity price promotion management, order management, sales management, sales analysis, and other aspects, which are also the difficulties in management.
1Comprehensive formula management
The Blue Lingtong Food IndustryERPThe system can save multiple versions of recipes, record the time and version number of changes, and call queries at any time to understand the history of changes.
2Strict batch management principle
The Blue Lingtong Food IndustryERPThe system provides both batch number and storage location management, allowing customers to flexibly set the severity of batch number management for materials, semi-finished products, and finished products. After setting up batch number management for materials, any changes in materials within the enterprise require the establishment of specific batch numbers. Users can quickly query the inventory status of specific batch numbers of materials in various warehouses online. From customers to suppliers, from sales to procurement, users can access information in the food industryERPThe system queries the origin and origin of any batch of products. If there is shelf life management for raw materials or products, it is common in the food industryERPThe system can be customized based on the customer's needs“Re inspection days”、“valid days”The settings automatically prompt users for easy management.
3Multiple units of measurement can be freely converted
The Blue Lingtong Food IndustryERPThe system provides three ways to express quantities: single unit, double unit, and manufacturing double unit. It also provides conversion units for better and more comprehensive management of inventory.
4Convenient management of product promotions
The Blue Lingtong Food IndustryERPThe system can adjust the prices of promotional activities and provide automatic generation of special offers for customer products. Price changes can be made through a combination of product categories, customer classifications, and other conditions, making it convenient to assign promotional prices to batches during holiday events. Customers can pre-set before promotions or adjustments. When the specified effective date is reached, the system will automatically adopt the new price, and when the specified expiration date is reached, the system will automatically adopt the pre adjustment price without any human intervention.
5Comprehensive price management
The Blue Lingtong Food IndustryERPThe factors that affect prices in the system include six aspects: customer, product, currency, pricing unit, effective date, and batch size. At the same time, price control can be defined for each product. And up to nine basic price settings are provided in the system, and each price can be further divided into pre discount and post discount to adapt to the food market with a wide customer coverage.
6Incorporate sales management into various sales methods
The Blue Lingtong Food IndustryERPThe system provides interlocking automatic order transfer and mutual auditing functions. After order confirmation, it can be copied into a sales order, reducing user input time and ensuring consistency of data before and after. At the same time, the sales order can be set to verify the order. If no order is specified, the system may not allow transactions. For sales from multiple warehouses, provide a process where the headquarters warehouse first transfers the goods to branch warehouses, and then sells them through branch warehouses. At the same time, for the management of in transit volume during the distribution process, it is also provided that the headquarters first transfers the goods to the in transit warehouse to confirm the shipment volume, and then the branch transfers the goods from the in transit warehouse to the branch warehouse to confirm the receipt volume. This can effectively manage the in transit volume during the distribution process. For the sales form of consignment, when supplying goods to the store, the lending process is followed, and when settling with the store, the sales process is followed to meet the sales behavior of consignment. For cash sales business, Yifei also provides cash sales management.
The sales department can also check the inventory status online when accepting orders, as well as the expected available quantity of inventory (i.e. the quantity available for use after deducting the reserved quantity), to avoid accepting orders in excess and affecting sales.....
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