Drive down your operating costs, increase your efficiency and bolster profits.

Leverage the power of one comprehensive and integrated solution to gain the competitive advantage in an industry where competition is always being redefined.

Here are some of the benefits our Sage MAS products have provided to our customers:

• Savings of 40 man-hours a day in shipping functions, eight hours a day in credit card processing
• Order-entry tasks that used to require eight man-hours a day are done now in five minutes
• Visibility into manufacturing processes they simply didn’t have before
• Reporting on the lot number of every raw ingredient in a matter of minutes. Before Sage, it would have taken days
• Streamlined automation of all accounting tasks; 20 percent cut in administration time; positive ROI in less than one year
• Complete recipe and formula management with traceability from raw materials through to final product
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Sage MAS ERP for Food and Beverage was designed to free you from the nuisance of managing disparate software systems and contending with applications designed for discrete manufacturing. You’ll be able to manage your business confidently, plan for change (instead of simply reacting to it), and innovate operations on both a product and process level. This allows you to gain the competitive advantage in an industry where competition is being redefined.

Recipe and Formula Management –Efficiently cascade recipe changes throughout the system. Utilize features, such as key ingredients, for automatic quantity adjustments throughout the recipe. You can also specify formula visibility groups and formula change approvals to integrate controls into your processes.

Inventory Management–Effectively and efficiently measure and track inconsistently sized ingredients, using catch weights, to standardize your output. Lot traceability helps you to understand where your ingredients are coming from to assist with regulatory compliance and quality control. Multiple units of measure with UOM conversion will help you easily receive items from vendors in their units of measure, and then select a different unit of measure that works best for your customers and internal processes.

Productivity Management–Batch yield calculations allow you to see how efficient your production operations are; split and inverted bills of material provide ways for you to make quick and accurate production assessments.

Compliance and Safety Management–MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) and nutritional labeling keep your employees and customers safe and your company in compliance with regulatory entities. Lot and vendor traceability are key capabilities offered by Sage MAS ERP for Food and Beverage to ensure compliance with federal regulations.

In order to achieve and exceed the expectations of the consumer, a quality management system must be in place and effective, and flexible enough to meet ever-changing trends. Sage MAS ERP for Food and Beverage allows you to integrate Quality Control procedures, sampling, and validation aspects into your standard workflow model.

Integrated product testing, statistical sampling, material physical property reporting, QC test hold, lot quarantine and recall; these are all tools provided by Sage MAS ERP for Food and Beverage to allow you to gain control and maintain a consistent quality product. Visibility by other departments into these processes provides planning and response flexibility.

Sage MAS ERP for Food and Beverage provides the framework and reporting required to achieve total compliance with an array of regulatory entities that address environmental impact, product quality, and employee safety.

Compliance is at your fingertips with an integrated ERP system like Sage MAS ERP for Food and Beverage. You will be able to meet the stringent recall requirements of the Bio-Terrorism Act confidently because Sage MAS ERP for Food and Beverage has made it easy for you to maintain complete lot number traceability of every ingredient. Your production department will embody the true essence of cGMP, because you can leverage the quality control functionality and reporting accuracy of Sage MAS ERP for Food and Beverage. Define Critical Control Points as steps in a work order in order to ensure compliance with the food safety requirements of HACCP; and ease the burden of an ISO9001 audit by integrating critical quality control aspects into your standard work flow.

For wholesale distributors and manufacturers of food and beverage products, complete inventory management control and optimization are critical. Sage MAS ERP for Food and Beverage provides this with its warehouse management and inventory replenishment solutions. With the ability to segment your warehouses into zones and bins, you can increase efficiencies and help ensure that highly perishable items are maintained and locatable. Thanks to ability to set applicable replenishment points for each item and account for seasonality, you’ll be sure to keep the leanest inventory while maintaining your customer service levels.

Warehouse Automation–For organizations that wish to increase their efficiencies within the warehouse, wireless handheld devices are already integrated with the system to provide real-time scanning of bar codes.

Logistics and EDI–To develop better relationships with customers and suppliers, EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) is available to exchange order information automatically. And to help ensure a timely and cost-effective delivery, Sage MAS ERP for Food and Beverage provides LTL shipping and integrated rate shopping for major carriers.

Warehouse Maintenance and Field Service–Integrated service management enables food and beverage distributors to efficiently manage inventory of replacement parts and the field maintenance of high-asset equipment, such as refrigeration units, kitchen equipment, and beverage—dispersing units. It also enables effective management of resources, such as parts and tools, and the schedule and dispatch of installation and service technicians.

Financials–Sage MAS ERP for Food and Beverage provides strength and reliability from the core accounting modules: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivable. This robust, flexible, and scalable end-to-end management solution also delivers stable and proven applications to raise the bar of excellence in the areas of HR Management, Fixed Assets, and CRM.

CRM (Customer Relationship Management)–This is another way to stay ahead of your competitors. Proactively seeking new customers and maintaining strong relationships with the customers you’ve worked so hard to win are constant endeavors. Your business can thrive with an integrated set of tools like those provided in our integrated CRM solution to keep track of your relationships, status of various campaigns, and integrated customer-product order history.

HR (Human Resources)–For many businesses in the food and beverage industry, human resources are the single largest asset and expenditure. Having a fully integrated HR solution ensures that you effectively manage benefits and provide value to the people in your organization. And if you want to add payroll as part of your end-to-end solution, Sage MAS ERP for Food and Beverage allows you to choose between an internal or external payroll solution.

Business Intelligence–The speed of business and breadth and depth of regulatory compliance requires a seamlessly integrated system. Relevant information is the key. Business Intelligence in the form of customizable, insightful reporting and live dashboards is a major differential for Sage Software in the food and beverage industry. The earlier you spot trends in your business, the faster you can respond and stay ahead of your competitors.