In the highly competitive landscape of the nutrition supply chain, optimizing production processes while maintaining standard product quality is paramount. Food manufacturing companies, especially those in sectors like flour milling, malting, milk powder production, and meat production, face the challenge of reducing operational costs, minimizing inventory investment, and ensuring consistent product quality. To tackle these challenges, leveraging a sophisticated software solution that integrates ERP, QA software, MES, and lot optimization is essential. In this article, we will explore how the integration of BESTMIX ERP, BESTMIX Procision, and BESTMIX Quality Control can revolutionize production optimization, delivering substantial benefits for feed and food manufacturers.
Managing Raw Material Quality and Procurement
BESTMIX Enterprise, powered by Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, serves as the foundation for managing the procurement process. When a raw material intake occurs, BESTMIX Enterprise automatically generates a sample in BESTMIX QC, the quality assurance software. BESTMIX QC conducts the necessary tests and sends the analysis results back to the ERP. As a result, BESTMIX Enterprise maintains up-to-date quality information for each raw material batch.
Optimizing Production Orders with BESTMIX Procision
BESTMIX Procision plays a critical role in optimizing production orders by continuously integrating relevant ERP data, including the current stock of individual raw material batches, their quality, price, and planned production orders. Leveraging this data, BESTMIX Procision optimizes all production orders, enabling manufacturers to deliver end products that precisely meet the required specifications. The optimized orders are seamlessly integrated back into the ERP and, if necessary, the MES software.
The process is visualized in the following diagram:
The Benefits of an Integrated Solution
By embracing the robust integration of BESTMIX software products, manufacturers can unlock several key benefits:
a. Cost Efficiency and Compliance:
Instead of relying solely on pre-entered average raw material analysis values, manufacturers can optimize their processes based on real-time price and quality information for individual raw material lots. This approach ensures compliance with desired specifications without the need for large safety margins, resulting in lower raw material costs.
b. Consistent Product Quality:
Even when facing high variability in nutrient values across raw material lots, BESTMIX Procision optimization adjusts the composition of each production order, considering the available ingredient batches. This enables manufacturers to consistently deliver end products that meet the highest quality standards.
Stay ahead in the competitive nutrition supply chain, delivering superior products and maximizing operational efficiency
The integration of BESTMIX Enterprise, BESTMIX Procision, and BESTMIX QC offers food manufacturers a powerful solution for production optimization. By effectively managing raw material quality, procurement processes, and optimizing production orders, manufacturers can reduce costs, minimize inventory investments, and ensure consistent product quality. Embracing the benefits of batch-driven optimization empowers companies to stay ahead in the competitive nutrition supply chain, delivering superior products and maximizing operational efficiency.
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