Ready to Optimise Food Manufacturing Processes

For several decades, Aptean has been perfecting its manufacturing execution system (MES) software with shop-floor data capture for the food manufacturing industry. Our software accurately captures all production data, validates operational actions and eliminates the reliance on paper-based records.

Aptean Food & Beverage MES provides a detailed view of productivity on a machine at process and departmental level. Set KPIs and, as production data is recorded, assess performance against targets. When combined with our management tools, your business will gain unparalleled visibility of performance data throughout your operations.

With our SaaS deployment option, you can rest easy knowing that you’re on Aptean Cloud. With 99.9% uptime and disaster protection, your data is readily available and backed up. Being in the cloud, you will have the flexibility to securely access your data from anywhere and ensure your system is up-to-date—gone are days of time-consuming upgrades.

Aptean’s Despatch Tracker significantly reduces the opportunity for human error, ensuring what’s ordered is delivered and dramatically cutting down credits. The Despatch Tracker application provides a real-time view of despatching and picking progress against sales orders, within the food factory. View single day, time, review by despatch or order dates, customers, soft allocate stock, instruct order for picking, control with user permissions and more.

• Despatch Tracker Details

Manage raw material intake your way, with Aptean’s Purchase Order Intake screen. Validate goods received and update purchase orders in real-time; create batch codes, capture weights, tares and all food industry measurements; ensure completion of all mandatory QA and traceability information; produce labels and assign to stock, and more.

• Raw Material Intake Details

Every time food manufacturing labels are generated within the factory, Aptean’s Phrase Manager software checks product codes, ingredient combinations, nutrient and allergen information, and other label variables, then collates and pushes out all data to process printing points.

• Phrase Manager Details

Once food manufacturing production plans have been published, manage works order processing and set up runs for each production area using Aptean’s Run Maintenance. Allocate raw material batches to processes, and provide live visibility of production plans on the shop floor via OCMs.

• Works Order Processing Details

With Aptean’s Picking and Despatch Management application, eliminate human error and dramatically reduce customer credits. Build and split pallets using barcode validation to match orders, create despatch documents, validate at point of pick, track percentages complete and more.

• Picking and Despatch Management Details

Transform your food manufacturing processes with MES and Shop Floor Data Capture eliminating inefficiencies, improves productivity and drives real-time decision making for continuous improvement.

• Shop Floor Data Capture and MES Details

Build your daily plan in minutes, based on sales forecasts and known patterns; control multi-stage processes; measure operational efficiencies and uncover the best use of labour and raw materials to drive more profitable margins.

• Production Management Details

Transform your warehouse management with an instant view of on-hand stock, available stock and shelf life status across multiple sites.

• Stock Control and Warehouse Management Details

Validate and label finished goods, maintain batch number traceability and create stock. With accurate and verified content for labels, options include: branded label design, barcode labels, on-demand & online labels, variable labelling for catch and fixed-weight products, pallet and case labelling.

• OCM Weighing and Labelling Details

With the direct impact on food manufacturing profit margins, making even the smallest of changes can have a dramatic impact on daily and annual profitability. Aptean's Giveaway Management reports are proven to deliver improvements to the bottom line by uncovering the reasons for giveaway levels and variances, optimizing raw materials and reducing waste.

• Giveaway Management Details

Optimize your recipe-based products with Apteans’s Least Cost Formulation. Within our Cost Modelling solution, Least Cost Formulation steps up planning controls by taking account of specification variances of available raw materials (E.g. VL grade), whilst still delivering at least cost.

• Least Cost Formulation Details

Efficiently create new purchase orders for raw materials, dry goods ingredients, packaging, services, non-stock items and consumables. Choose delivery time slots, units of measure, and colour code based on delivery status.

• Purchase Order Processing Details

Aptean's food production planning provides a real-time view of scheduling, dynamic planning and allows you to make last minute changes, no matter when they happen during the day. Identify live issues and calculate the knock-on effects to production time and lines, raw materials, crew, packaging requirements and even vehicle departure times.

• Production Planning Details

Validate raw material, reduce wastage and deliver real-time information about whatever’s happening within your food factory by using Apteans’s Production Tracker screen.

• Production Tracker Details

Create call lists for telesales team members, or even a call list for a telesales group, with our Aptean’s CRM module.

• Sales Order Processing CRM Details

No matter what product you are processing, from meat to potatoes, the ability to track yield in real-time will deliver significant business benefits.

• Yield Tracker Details

Aptean's highly configurable Sales Order Processing software has been developed to meet the operational requirements of any food manufacturing business. Features include customer templates, shopping baskets, historical sales by customer, promotions, multiple price lists, 3-tier pricing, draft orders, full audit trail, credit limits, CRM, rebates, reporting on demand and much more.

• Sales Order Processing Details

Always make the best use of stock across your enterprise with Aptean’s stock management applications and reporting. Whether raw material, dry goods, packaging or WIP, track life left on products and enable better operational decision making with our live view of stock. Stock Tracker delivers a complete overview of business stock or by individual location. By product code, view by life or by age (for stock in maturation), generate reports showing stock valuation, stock by life, stock at risk and much more.

• Stock Tracker Details

Using Aptean’s recipe management software, digitalize, visualize and control the creation of the most complex value-added products. ready meals and bakery recipes from component ingredients.

• Recipe Management Details

Reduce giveaway on fixed weight products, improve yield and achieve better scheduling.

• Yield and Giveaway Management Details

Aptean’s Proof of Delivery application is proven to cut customer credits by up to 80% for food manufacturers. By linking SOP (sales order processing) to despatch scanning, orders can either be fulfilled and released for shipment or manually processed.

• Proof of Delivery Details

Our data-driven dashboard tool provides real-time visibility to monitor and understand process-specific performance.

• Shop-Floor Management Dashboards Details

What margin will I make today? How much does it really cost to make my products? Our Cost Modelling software has the power to solve many of today’s food manufacturing planning challenges. Automate calculations to achieve continuous and accurate data to help prevent overspend and unearth savings, wherever they can be made.

• Cost Modelling Details

Aptean's range of SQL dynamic reports transforms data into insights, delivering advanced reporting on demand. Configure our powerful reporting and analysis tools to highlight opportunities for business improvements and investments, and monitor food manufacturing issues, such as frequent line downtime or poor throughput.

• Advanced Reporting and Analysis Details