Food and Beverage ERP

Best ERP for Food and Beverage Industry

Enhance your Productivity with Controls with ACTouch, a Food and Beverage ERP Software

Food and Beverage ERP Software or Food Manufacturing Software for Beverages, Food etc needs a lot of features to address the segment as the products and its manufacturing process is very wide and complex. ACTouch is a complete ERP for Food and Beverage Industry that helps to control Production with Batches and Expiry dates, Invoicing, Procurements, Product Costing, Production Planning and Controls, Tracking of Materials, Product Quality and Quality Testing, Inventory management, Project management, Help with regulatory requirements etc. It helps to manage the Finances and Taxes.

Cloud ERP generally has substantially lower upfront costs, because the month leases computing tools instead of purchased and maintained in your premises. Cloud ERP gives companies access with their business-critical software.

Cloud-based ERP software or an enterprise resource planning software or a Food and beverage ERP Software generally has substantially lower upfront costs, because the month leases computing tools instead of purchased and maintained in your premises. Cloud ERP Software gives companies access with their business-critical software with Real-time data and also provides an regulatory compliance features for food industry. Few Beverage companies or any Food industry business, who focus on distribution have their own warehouse management tool to manage consumer demand and supply.

Food and Beverage ERP Software for Beverage Industries.

Challenges Faced by Food and Beverage Industries

As common to many industries, the Food and Beverage Manufacturers face many problems. But the major of these issues are

1. Finished Goods cost can be controlled by reducing cycle time and wastage? Many loose the market with wrong Finished goods costing models.
2. Finished Goods to RM Product traceability. RM tracking and traceability from Finished Goods Batch numbers to RM’s.
3. Track the RM price variation to Product suppliers and the batch levels.
4. Unpredictability of availability of Raw Materials as many are imported.
5. Manage Activity based costing to know and control the FG Costs.
6. Manage Subcontracting operations, reduce the costs of manufacturing and track the wastage and Supply bottle neck.
7. Manage and control Jobwork and its costs.
8. Use an effective Forecasting and MRP to manage Demands and supplies of the Materials
9. How to Manage Sales persons and ensure that Collections are done properly?

In summary Food and Beverage Manufacturers need a robust Cloud ERP to handle all the above scenarios with one Centralised Solution, with an ability to manage the business process and workflows. It should help with tracking of RM, Semi Finished Goods with its Costing, track wastage and scraps etc.

All the above can be handled in ACTouch, a Food and Beverage ERP Software

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We solved Beverage Industry problems with our Food and Beverage ERP Software.

1. Import and Export Business with accurate Invoicing, Purchase etc
2. Capture customer details and their delivery schedule
3. Resources, People and their Productivity improvements
4. 100% accurate Subcontracting Operations – Helped our customers to track all components that’s sent to Subcontractor location.
5. Products Batch and expiry data tracking
6. Managed Product level Batches to track which Vendor supplied these components against which document etc. as the same part numbers are supplied by multiple vendors.
7. Test results and tracking of Quality results
8. Tracking of Materials between 5 to 10 levels of Sub Assemblies.
9. 100% accurate costing with Man power utilisation and subcontractor costing
10. Landing Cost – Multi currency with Landing costs.
11. Customer relationship management
12. Quality control and Quality assurance features.
13. Financial management with real-time visibility
14. Helping with industry regulations and food safety regulations

Great Food and Beverage Manufacturing ERP Software in India

Simplify your Work, Improve Process and Reduce Cost with ACTouch, a Food Manufacturing Software

Manage the following with ease

1. Manage and accounts location of the components on the Machines assemblies
2. Manage the rejections, scrap with reasons during testing. Define test cases.
3. Identify the costs of manufacturing including Subcontractors
4. 100% efficient and easy way to track the materials at Subcontractors location.

Multi layer Bill of Materials (BOM) / Product Structures are important for Food and Beverage ERP

Many production managers ask questions like

1. What is BOM configuration for Chip designs? Each design has 5000 components.
2. How to create a Bill of Materials (BOM)?
3. How to Build a BOM

We are trying to address all these questions here with an explanation and what BOM really contains?

Multi Layer Bill of Materials (BOM) with 5000 components

Bill of Materials (BOM) is modified at the time of transactions and ensure that no one changes it. For the same item, you can have multiple BOMs and manage the productions. So you can define,

1. Multiple layers of BOM with each layers with 2000+ materials.
2. Define Labor, Burden and other costs
3. Get the products estimated costs.
4. Control the items that goes into Finished Goods

Advantage of ACTouch.com BOM is, you can find the exact product cost with cost deduction from By-products too.

What is my Finished Goods Cost? How to get my Cost details Automatically?

FG Costing is an important parameter for the production persons as management is focussed on to reduce the costs. Typical FG cost will contain, RM Costs, Production labor costs, Machine cost sets. ACTouch, Food and Beverage Manufacturing ERP, a right fit for Beverage Industry.

Activity Based Costing for Finished Goods (ABC)

It is sad that many Customers doesn’t know their accurate cost of Finished Goods. Because of this they don’t know at what rate to sell the products. Traditionally, ACTouch.com follows the Activity Based Costing (ABC) approach and it helps to arrive at the minute cost details added to Finished Goods.

Work Order Dashboard

Many Business owners frequently ask these questions to their Production Manager.

1. What is the status of my Production Delivery? Where we are and when we can meet customer demand?
2. What is Work Order and how to speed up delivery?
3. How long does this work order takes to complete the work?

Work Order and its process

ACTouch.com handles Work Orders with ONE Page activity. You can do

1. Request for Materials transfer to Production Unit. (Material Request form)
2. Semi or Finished Goods reporting.
3. Send the Raw / Semi Finished materials for Subcontracting
4. Receive the Finished Components from Subcontractor

From ONE page, you can manage the complete Work Order Operations. Now your Boss can see the details at one place.

Daily / Weekly Production Plan

One of the main problem for Medical Devices Manufacturing companies, we are addressing is, you can plan for the multiple Semi or Finished Goods at a time and collect all the RM for them at one go from Stores. A powerful tool for the production manager.

Daily / Weekly Production Plan

ACTouch.com handles Daily / Weekly Production plan that helps

1. Prepare the Production Plan for a week or month for 10 to 100 Finished Goods.
2.  Helps to process and generate ONE STOCK list to be collected from Stores
3. If any Materials Shortages, please raise the Purchase Indents.

Powerful tool for Production Managers.

How Planning works for Manufacturers with 5000+ items?

Material Requirements Planning or MRP is a powerful tool that helps you to manage your business with Demand and Supply. Click here to read more.

MRP is a powerful tool.

MRP helps to check the demand (Sales, Forecasting etc) and checks the available stocks. Based on this it plans for the shortage of materials based on the timelines. The output of this is, it helps to generate planned orders for Production and Purchase Indents.

1. Selective MRP
2. Regenerative MRP

Choice is yours.

Sales Order Processing

Many managers ask questions like

1. What is Sales order and its process?
2. What is the difference between Sales Order and Invoice?
3. How to do an Export Invoice and collect money?

We are trying to address all these questions here with an explanation.

Sales Order Processing

ACTouch.com has the following modules that helps and streamlines your business

1. Sales Quotation – Helps to send Quotes
2. Sales Order – Inventory, Services, Multi Currencies.
3. Convert SO to Invoice or generate Export Invoice
4. Handle effective Sales Returns

Purchase Order Processing

Many managers ask questions like

1. What is Purchase order and how it helps?
2. What is the difference between Purchase Orders and Goods Receipts?
3. How to do an Import Goods receipts?

We are trying to address all these questions here with an explanation.

Purchase Order processing

With ACTouhc.com, you can create the following documents

1. Purchase order for Inventory or Import
2. Receive the materials and it updates Inventory
3. Purchase Returns and its helps to manage Inventory

Its a powerful tool for Purchase Managers

Subcontracting Process

Many managers ask questions like

1. What is Subcontracting Process?
2. What are the steps to follow in Subcontracting?
3. How to add the subcontracting cost to Product costs?

We are trying to address all these questions here with an explanation.

Subcontracting Process

ACTouch.com has the following modules that helps and streamlines your business

1. Raise the Outward DC and send the RMs to Contract vendors
2. Receive the Finished or Semi finished goods against the Delivery challans
3. Add the Subcontracting production cost to FG.

Food and Beverage ERP Software for SMEs

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Find out why 5000+ Business owners love ACTouch, a 100% best Food and Beverages ERP Software?

OEM Manufacturer

“ACTouch.com helped us to save 50% of our efforts in managing Inventory, sending and receiving etc. Because of this, now we started our second company due to these time savings. I am happy that I did the right choice”

Manjunath Naik. Director, IM SafteySolutions.

Trader and Distributor

“This is the best team and the Software support I’ve received. They always helps us quickly, in a very professional and easy to understand way. Today our three businesses are using ACTouch.com”

Mukund B.S. CEO, ReNewIT, Bangalore

Calibration Vendor

“ACTouch Team developed our Calibration process on Cloud with the necessary customisation. They helped us to move into Digitisation of our manual process. For this digitisation, we received award from GE Healthcare”.

Vijay Kumar, Director, TransCal Bangalore

ACT NOW to streamline your Manufacturing process to increase Productivity and Efficiency

Free Format Download section

1. Download the Invoice format in excel
2. Download the Delivery Challan format in Excel.

How ACTouch Cloud ERP Software can help other Industries? Please read below

1. Automobile Industry, Tractors and Farm Equipment Manufacturers
2. Manufacturing ERP for Plastic Products Manufacturers
3. Chemical and Process Industry Manufacturers
4. Manufacturing ERP for Electronics Manufacturers
5. Manufacturing ERP for Farm Equipment and Automotive Manufacturers
6. Manufacturing ERP for Industrial Products
7. Manufacturing ERP for Medical Devices Manufacturers
8. Manufacturing ERP for Forging and Metal Fabrication Software
9. Manufacturing ERP for Import Export Business
10. Manufacturing ERP Jobwork and Subcontracting Operations

For more details email us at Sales@actouch.com