Business Intelligence specifically for the food industry
Most Food & Beverage companies produce and store large amounts of information. There is an ever increasing administrative burden, mostly in conjunction with food safety regulations. How can you get the exact information you need from all that data quickly, and how are do you use this information? SI Foodware, the leading Microsoft Dynamics ERP add-on for the global Food & Beverage Industry contains Business Intelligence functionality named Food Management Dashboard. The dashboard offers a set of pre-defined KPI’s and reports especially for the Food & Beverage Industry. It empowers you to make the right decision in time. The result? Transparency, improved control of business processes, less risks and financial savings.
How do you know for certain that your current budget matches your sales and purchases exactly? And are you able to compare the actual production output and the consumption of raw materials and components with the planned quantities and standard sets? Im- portant issues that often need to be dealt with as soon as possible. But where are you going to start off from? The interface of the Food Management Dashboard makes it extremely easy to access the right data and interpret this the right way. It offers a click through setup for all KPI’s that starts from the main dashboard. The main dashboard offers an overview of the status of the 4 most important factors that determine the success of your business processes: Reliability, Costs, Flexibility and Profitability. Within a few clicks you will be able to see which processes are performing as planned and which ones deserve your attention.
Easy to work with and no customization is needed
The Food Management Dashboard is a Microsoft Excel based solution. This makes it easy to work with because most people work with Microsoft Excel regularly or on a daily basis. Microsoft Dynamics new interface; the Role Tailored Client makes it possible to insert the Food Management Dashboard in your own personalized screen. So there is no need to switch programs when you want access to your Business Intelligence solution.
One of the main advantages of the Food Management Dashboard is that it requires no customization. The most important values of the Food & Beverage industry are pre-defined and incorporated in several standard models. These values are based on KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators), known from the Norton and Kaplan Balanced Score Card model. This makes the Food Management dashboard an ‘out-of-the-box and ready-for-use’ solution for every company that operates in the Food & Beverage industry.
Available models:
1. Sales and purchasing model
With the sales and purchasing model you and your staff will gain insight into the differences between budget and actual for sales and/or purchasing. You will be able to see sales for the most recent period at a glance from various dimensions, for example based on clients, products, product groups, campaigns, sales representatives, branches, margin, and so on. On the purchasing side you will gain insight into the suppliers, purchasing per raw material, number of kg, and so on.
2. Production model
The production model will provide you and your staff with an understanding of the efficiency and effectiveness of your production processes. You will be able to compare the actual production output and the consumption of raw materials and components with the planned quantities and standards set. And this information is presented in terms of units produced, kg produced as well as costs incurred. This model will also help you gain insight into the performance of your production department, with overviews per machine and labour capacity. Planned and actual time taken can be compared to the capacity available in production.
3. Financial model
Using the financial model you and your staff will gain insight into the financial status of your clients, suppliers and your own organisation. You will be able to examine the items open for your clients, so that you can see at a glance the number of days an invoice, for example, is outstanding. In addition you can use this model on the purchasing side, for example, to examine the amounts you owe to your suppliers. The financial model will also give you insight into your own general ledger.
Future models
Sometimes our existing models do not go far enough for a company in the food and beverage sector. So this is why, at Schouw Informatisering, we are continually developing additional models. The newest BI models are made available with each new release of SI Foodware. A new release of SI Foodware will not affect the existing BI models as these are always adjusted to the latest releases of Dynamics ERP and SI Foodware.
More information
The information requirements and the systems for storing data differ per company. We would be happy to discuss with you how we can gather and structure the right information in your organisation. If you would like to make an appointment with one of our BI specialists or just receive more information, please do not hesitate to contact us, by phone: +31 (0)76 5042520 or by e-mail: sales@schouw.org. We want you and your staff to make analyses quickly, so you can take better decisions.
