Up-to-Date ERP Software

Green Bay Cheese needed an ERP software package that could track individual cheese lots from raw material receipt through consumption in manufacturing and onto shipment of finished product to its retail and food service customers. It also had to manage special customer pricing requirements based upon the current market price for cheese, provide detailed costing of manufacturing operations, and prepare customer-specific private labeling of product including product details and lot analysis information.

The producer found its solution with Technology Group International’s ERP package, Enterprise 21. With this ERP system, the cheese manufacturer is able to electronically store womb-to-tomb lot tracking of cheese so that a given lot of cheese can be traced to all customers who received material produced from that particular lot; interactively calculate online customer pricing based upon cheese market price and customer pricing factors; and automatically generate customer-specific labels which include not only customer logos and barcodes, but also the retail customer’s price to the consumer.

From inventory control to purchasing, the cheese company’s new ERP system efficiently performs key functions such as order management, manufacturing, general ledger, accounts payable and accounts receivable. Inventory control includes an integrated warehouse management system; tracking multi-locations and bins in each warehouse; prime pick, put-away, and restocking locations by product code; sophisticated product configurator; bill of material maintenance for kitting; fully attributed inventory; lot control with analysis; and RF/bar code functionality.

Click to read the full article from Food Engineering Magazine.