Ready to Fully Embrace Digital Transformation With Food ERP

The one size-fits-all ERP solution hasn’t ever been the panacea to resolving complex food manufacturing process improvements and gaps. Invariably, this approach leads to a plethora of work-around solutions.

Either select the complete solution or choose the modules that meet your current challenges. In addition, third party software integration is also available, wherever you need it. As your operations grow, your solution can grow with it, by adding further expert applications.

By using our modular approach, a MES solution will always be built to fit your food business for any segment of the food processing industry.

With the combination of our modular food ERP and real-time planning software applications, driven by our renowned, fully-integrated shop floor data capture, our transformative solution is built to scale-up with your demand and growth.

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.

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

Within Aptean’s Cost Modelling module, Bill of Materials maps out all product relationships for both reduction specifications and combination specifications. Bill of Materials details raw material conversions to work in progress (WIP) and finished goods products.

• Bill of Materials 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 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

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

Expedite customer sales orders with Aptean's EDI processing. By using EDI or web portals, empower your customers to directly place and self-validate orders. Make the most of our pre-priced product order templates, that are proven to eliminate errors that often occur when sales orders are placed.

• EDI Processing 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

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

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

To deliver optimum sales forecasts, a food manufacturer needs to have an overview of all business management processes and access to accurate data to enable informed decisions, including sales predictions over time, and variables, such as seasonality and grade of the product.

• Sales Forecasting Details

With Aptean's Stock and Order MRP software, take a lean manufacturing approach to food production stock management, with a real-time view to manage raw materials, WIP, packaging and more. Having the right stock available at all times is vital to the success of any food producer. Too much can lead to downgrades and waste, too little will mean shorting orders and unhappy customers.

• Materials Requirements Planning MRP 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

Aptean's Active Dashboards have the power to interpret real-time KPI data from across the food factory in a graphical and engaging way, that will benefit every operational area. This knowledge-led approach and our food manufacturing dashboards, shine a light on all areas of the business to drive informed and positive decision making and continuous process improvements within the food factory.

• Active Dashboards 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

As a feature within Aptean's Sales Order Processing software (SOP), the Price Maintenance feature stores complex pricing by stock code, standard and promotional pricing for each customer. It also handles offset weeks, where the customer pricing week does not coincide with the supplier pricing week. Even when multiple lists are in place, SOP automatically picks the correct pricing.

• Price Maintenance 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

Using your finished goods forecast and sales orders, plan and schedule the more efficient way to make products, assign production lines, crewing levels, use raw materials and packaging, manage multi-stage processes and more.

• Production Scheduling Details