Low-margin based operations that made-up in volume are en passe.  The need for cost-effectiveness and efficiency has been passed on to food processors, adding to their challenges of just-in-time manufacturing, shorter shelf lives and notoriously fickle consumer tastes. 

Our sound IT solutions for food processors are backed by successful experiences with some of the largest players in this industry and in delivering solutions for the retail industry.  These include:

• Efficient Customer Response
• Warehouse Management
  

Our solutions for food processors have delivered:

• optimized performance
• increased sales
• tighter control and reduction in excess inventory
• streamlined work-flow and reduced costs
• reduced time to consumer
• enhanced product shelf-life
• protection of competitive advantage

With customers in charge of priorities and retailers as well as wholesalers expecting inventory warehousing and shipment management from food and beverage processors, the latter face two key challenges:

• responsiveness, and
• customer satisfaction.
  

Our Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) implementations have successfully resulted in higher responsiveness and customer satisfaction, and reduced waste and inventories.  Our services include...

• E-business backbone for Supply Chain Integration
• B2B Application Design and Implementation
  

• automatically supplies goods according to preset thresholds by monitoring warehouses and point-of-sale retail data, and
• facilitates the supply of required food and beverage products, when they are required and with the preferred type of packaging.)

With more retailers turning to food processors for managing the supply chain - including warehousing and shipping – food processors need to look beyond inventory management.  Linking a distribution center to grocery store shelves is crucial to reduced warehousing, operating and administrative costs, and, improved customer satisfaction through Continuous Product Replenishment (CPR).

• Inventory Management
• Order Management
• Shipping, Receiving and Yard Management
• Device Interfacing for Warehouse Automation
  

Our approach is holistic, placing the emphasis on increasing product movement and accuracy throughout the supply chain.  Our experience includes:

• developing of custom software for warehouse management
• writing software to interface with hardware devices that help automate material handling
• extending warehouse management beyond the routine picking, packing and shipping
• facilitating insights into inventory levels, processes and accounts