Beverage Industry Technology: Adding the Fizz to Your Business

Smart technologies are driving the beverage industry into a new digital age with smart factories and artificial intelligence in robotics. But with so many options available, what are some essential technologies a beverage company needs to make operations truly sparkle?

Before going over our top recommendations, let’s take a look at three advantages of using said technology and how it can enable innovation.

Advantages of Technology

1. Optimise Production

Line management using digital technology with automation improves your production line's efficiency and results; even if your line consists of various types of machines and devices, you can integrate them and view their data in one single system with a modified software solution. This connectivity helps discover ways to optimise your lines gradually. It also helps you to adapt to changes and identify issues by quickly responding.

As data is collected in real-time, the production team can see information about the current batch including events and alarms throughout the process, helping them to control the process and possible errors.

Choosing a specialised beverage ERP offers sector-specific features to help you with these challenges. For example, Aptean's beverage ERP production and quality capabilities help you to drive productions efficiency—thanks to automated production order management and capacity planning for equipment, automated forecast-based macro planning calculations for use when calculating purchase contracts and production plans, and lastly, automated lot traceability of raw materials and intermediate and finished products.

2. Boost Quality

Products in the beverage industry must meet high-quality standards and regulations, which food and beverage manufacturers have to control strictly. Beverage technology can help with quality assurance and even improve the quality of food and beverage products overall.

Data is important to the process of quality assurance. With technology, you can track every detail of your production process which allows you to detect aforementioned real-time variations in the process that could lead to quality issues. This makes sure you can quickly fix these defects, preserving your batch run and potentially saving you significant amounts of time and money with little waste.

In order to further manage the quality of your production line runs, our beverage ERP's Quality Management module offers support with automated in-process and ad hoc tests, forward and backward tracking, and extensive quality reporting.

3. Handle EMCS Efficiently

With the European Union (EU) imposing taxes on alcoholic beverages, suppose your company is approved to receive or dispatch excise goods in duty suspension. In that case, you’ll need to use a computerised system, EMCS (Excise Movement and Control System), to record duty-suspended movements of excise goods taking place within the EU.

Alcohol beverage companies should standardise and integrate Duty Management into their beverage business solutions. Aptean's beverage business ERP solution does this by giving you easy to use out-of-the-box capabilities to drive EMCS efficiency.

With Aptean Beverage ERP's EMCS you can:

• Comply with e-AD requirements

• Analyse tax-relevant movements of relevant goods

• Easily submit data to the authorities

• Capture and process movement information online

• Validate the data entered

• Get real-time notification on dispatch and receipt of duty suspended excise goods

• Exchange secure online messages containing specific consignment and movement information between EU trading partners

Beverage Technology That’s Changing the Industry

Smart Manufacturing With IoT-Enabled Solutions

The "4th Industrial Revolution" is a term that refers to the rapid increase in robotics and other smart technologies which allow for a huge boost in productivity, automation and safety for those working in the drinks and food industry.

With Internet of things (IoT) being part of this technological revolution, modern software solutions help ensure that every beverage is produced faster and with consistent quality. For drinks in transit, IoT-enabled solutions can monitor transportation conditions and provide for more detailed and accurate record-keeping, ensuring products comply with safety regulations.

Big Data to Guarantee Consistency

Big data is an important tool for the beverage industry to help it make better decisions. The development of software for making resource plans has given companies an online platform that collects information and helps them find the best ways to optimise operational processes and ensure product consistency.

Large beverage companies use an algorithm that keeps the quality and taste of their beverages the same, even in seasons where ingredients are scarce. It combines weather data, sweetness ratings, acidity and satellite images to find the best combination of methods to produce their beverages.

Smart Packaging

Smart packaging solutions are rapidly increasing to aid companies in tracking their products across the supply chain. Industry dominating brands are using blockchain to create labels that are able to track the product journey. Our beverage ERP even links your beverage production company's purchasing, planning, quality assurance and production allowing you to automate:

• Registration of laboratory quality measurements

• Product traceability from raw materials to customers and vice versa

• Expiration dates

• Label management

Cloud Services for ERP Software

Not every beverage company has the resources to implement cutting-edge innovations. Cloud software providers make it easy to get access to mobility solutions and accessibility of ERP software systems from any device. With a beverage ERP, you can organise your production efficiently and minimise delivery times while making tracking goods easier than ever. Industry-specific ERP solutions created especially for your beverage business create cohesion from planning to production streamlining your business from start to finish.

Beverage Industry ERP Software: Unlocking Success With Aptean

Aptean's beverage ERP solution offers unique, industry-specific technology built on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central platform, which affords it a familiar feel and optimized user experience. Our beverage industry management software offers everything you need to optimise your entire value chain from sales and marketing, to warehouse and distribution, to finance and tax in addition to production quality, service management and contract management. Our beverage ERP software introduces you into the new world of Big Data and IoT while linking business applications with tools for mobility, communication and collaboration.

So, ready to learn more about Aptean's beverage ERP offerings and the rest of the software in our suite? Contact us today, or request a personalised demo.