Goa is the smallest state of India and a major tourist hotspot, renowned for its beautiful beaches globally. It has emerged as the manufacturing base for several leading companies in areas such as food processing, fertilizers, tyres and tubes, cement, electrical machinery and more.The Government of Goa is creating an enabling-environment conducive to attracting investment in all the industries, especially, food processing to accelerate production, provide remunerative prices to the farmers and generate employment opportunities in rural areas.The food processing industry is growing at a rapid rate but also facing certain challenges and strong competition. Whether it is a restaurant or a food supplier, the business owners need to adopt the latest technology to deal with these challenges that include
- Maintaining food quality and hygiene
- Managing inventory
- Following the latest compliance
- Automating the management tasks for streamlined business operations.
SAP Business One ERP Solution for Food Processing
SAP Business One for the food and beverage industry is fast becoming an indispensable part of the food processing industry due to the time-sensitive nature of the products. Consumers today are well aware of the products they consume, from where it comes and what it contains.Consumers want fresh food products to be delivered to them. This calls for greater supply chain transparency; something which SAP Business One ERP Solutiion Goa can help you keep track of easily.This multi-modular SAP ERP Solution for food processing business is for recipe-driven companies and delivers a platform to address your business challenges. Its powerful processes enable:- Extensive product and batch traceability for complete “field-to-fork” functionality.
- Support for recipe-driven companies that need more than a standard bill of materials. This includes –
- Formula Management
- Yield and Scrap
- Byproduct Capabilities
- Co-product Capabilities
- Integral quality control to define quality checkpoints
- Powerful scheduling tools that deliver an intuitive, graphical scheduling board to optimize your production process.
- Automated “smart” forecasting that accounts for your market’s seasonal influences
- Full control over
- Ingredient Declarations
- Nutritional Contents
- Ingredient Properties
Top 4 Challenges of Food Processing Industry & How SAP Business One Resolves them
For any food processing business in Goa, Panaji, Margao or any other part of Goa or the larger India, on-time delivery, HACCP requirements, expiry dates, random weights and correct packaging are just the tip of the iceberg. There is so much more that needs to be tracked and maintained.Accurate purchase planning is essential to ordering just the right quantities of raw materials. Batch traceability and manufacturing scheduling are equally essential. What’s more, as food processing recipes regularly change, so do the required inputs and manufacturing process requirements.SAP Business One gives you the ability to implement best-practice food processing and food distribution, so you can continue to deliver on-time and in-full, even as you grow.Here are some of the many challenges faced by food processing businesses in Goa & how SAP Business One resolves them.1. Mismanagement of Inventory Across Locations
If the inventory is located in a warehouse, multiple locations, consigned or drop-shipped from a supplier, managing inventory better is an absolute must for improved cash flow and reduced expenses.- Manual inventory management is time-consuming, redundant and vulnerable to errors
- Supply chain factors impacts food inventories driving up storage costs
- Increase in food retail pricing due to increase in inventory costs
- Managing inventory with manual documentation
- Perishable and fragile stock need specialized plans for care and storage
- Overselling of products and running out of inventory at any given point of time
Solution Offered by SAP Business One implemented by VC ERP
Improve inventory management through functions like automatic tracking, warehouse and inventory management by maintaining the right amount of inventory stock at the right location and time.Track information about specific batches and related documents. Record the current inventory status of both raw materials and finished products.Notify employees before they run out of inventory stock maintaining inventory levels. Generate stock reports and regularly identify items that are running low. Efficient stock control allows you to manage optimum stock.2. Increasing Wastage of Raw Materials
Food manufacturers need to ensure that they do not over-order materials for one-off or bespoke jobs. In order to do this, you should look at all aspects of your production process, including transportation and warehousing.- Around 10.6 billion pounds of food waste is generated, which raises a serious concern about food sustainability each year
- Consumers demand to know sourcing of food items and are sensitive about the “freshness” factor
- Food processors need to ensure that their food items are fresh and have not exceeded expiry dates
Solution Offered by SAP Business One implemented by VC ERP
Improve visibility of raw materials and work in process efficiently with the use of Material Requirement Planning (MRP) feature, products’ seasonal planning and forecasting can be done.Control the entire process of production, packaging and distribution by efficiently managing stock. Track product lot numbers and sell-by dates. Enable the use of batch codes for tracking procured materials during production with batch traceability3. Manual Accounting Operations
Manual accounting operations can prove to be inefficient, time-consuming and prone to errors. Manual data entry consumes a lot of valuable resources, opening the door to mistakes and mix-ups.Your accounting operations need to be efficient, easy to manage and provide overall visibility and control.- Old-school accounting methods and fragmented business systems can prove to be a time-consuming process
- Critical data in complex excel spreadsheets can prove frustrating taking more than a day to be decoded
- The presence of disparate systems affects the day-to-day functioning of your staff
- Everyday operations require a business to pass details between multiple systems
Solution Offered by SAP Business One implemented by VC ERP
Access the relevant files from the single IT solution while simultaneously working on other files – thus saving time and effort.Optimize business costs, wait for time and labour normally associated with a set of disparate systems to a great extent, allowing your staff to focus more on their principal tasks.Enable easier sharing and communication among the different parts of the business ensuring employee collaboration4. Rising Business Costs
Rising business costs threaten the viability of entire businesses, squeezed by rising wholesale costs, insufficient or ineffective hedging strategies and in some instances, regulatory pressures as well.- Food companies incur daily expenses through accounting, marketing, inventory and transactional costs
- Food processing companies need to control their food costs without any compromise in food quality
- Rising business costs increasing chances of human errors
Solution Offered by SAP Business One implemented by VC ERP
Optimize business costs by ensuring that all business transactions are captured seamlessly in a centralized system of record and providing accurate reporting in real-time.Increase overall employee productivity, collect payment efficiently and lower inventory expenses. Automating workflows can help reduce the workload by completing a plethora of daily tasks.Record regular transactions, receive payments, monitor inventory, prepare financial statement of multiple accounts and work on marketing-related documentsSAP Business One ERP Solution implemented by VC ERP Consulting resolves top 4 business challenges of food processing businesses in Goa. Let us now understand how VC ERP Consulting takes a step further to ease the business operations of the food processing industry in Goa.How VC ERP Consulting helps your Food Processing Business in Goa?
Experts at VC ERP Consulting have designed & meticulously developed SAP Business One Add-Ons for your unique business needs. These Xtreme Add-Ons easily integrate in your SAP Business One system for a variety of business functions specific to your niche.Add-Ons increase your ease-of-business with additional customizations going hand-in-hand with the requirements of your food processing industry.- Xtreme Manufacturing / Shop Floor SAP B1 Add-On
- Xtreme Quality Control SAP B1 Add-On
- Xtreme Auto Batch Manage SAP B1 Add-On
- Xtreme C-BOM SAP B1 Add-On
- Xtreme Plant Maintenance SAP B1 Add-On
- Xtreme Smart Alerts SAP B1 Add-On
- GST E-Invoicing SAP B1 Add-On
- GST E-Way Bill SAP B1 Add-On
- Digital Signature SAP B1 Add-On
- Xtreme Payroll SAP B1 Add-On
