Distribution Management in a Warehouse for Hardgoods

Manufacturing Management

Food & Beverage

VAI's Manufacturing Suite empowers food and beverage manufacturers to streamline operations, optimize production processes, and gain real-time visibility into costs.

Key Features:

Work Order Management

  • Work orders to simplify production order creation for various production scenarios, including make-to-stock and custom batches
  • Recipe management for product formulations. Support multiple recipe variations for a single finished product, accommodating ingredient substitutions.
  • Full integration with inventory management to ensure you have the necessary ingredients to fulfill production orders. Identify potential shortages and substitute readily available ingredients if needed.
  • Create routing steps for clear instruction on completing finished goods
  • Track production costs to gain valuable insights into manufacturing costs with real-time production cost calculation and general ledger posting
  • Track ingredient, labor, and overhead variances, providing a clear picture of production efficiency and highlighting areas for cost optimization
  • View comprehensive reports for in-depth analysis of production performance, including standard vs. actual cost comparisons, ingredient variances, waste reporting, and labor efficiencies

Material Requirements Planning (MRP)

  • Full MRP to eliminate inventory headaches by streamlining ingredient purchasing and scheduling
  • Analyzes sales orders, production orders, purchase orders, current inventory levels, and sales forecasts to generate precise ingredient requirements
  • Gain insights into future ingredient needs on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, factoring in seasonality and marketing promotions
  • Drill down capability to critical purchase order due dates, manufacturing order due dates, and specific customer orders associated with inventory commitments
  • Automated suggestions based on ingredient requirements and generated suggestions for production orders and purchase orders, which can then be adjusted and automatically converted into actionable work orders

Shop Floor Control

  • Record ingredient and labor usage on the shop floor using tablets, mobile devices, or handheld scanners
  • Track production progress, ingredient usage, and available machine capacity in real-time, facilitating informed decision-making regarding inventory adjustments and production scheduling
  • Analyze employee productivity, ingredient variances, and actual vs. standard costs

Food Safety and Quality

  • Manage testing procedures and maintain quality control throughout the manufacturing process
  • Establish an unlimited number of custom tests or grouped tests to adhere to specific food safety regulations and quality standards
  • Track ingredients throughout the production process by lot number to ensure quality and facilitate targeted recalls if necessary
  • Route production back to a previous operation or flag out-of-specification products based on quality control failures

Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP)

  • Powerful inquiries allow users to view soft, firm and planned demand, allowing a detailed analysis of both actual and projected capacity requirements.
  • Summary information helps you spot situations where capacity is short or long, enabling you to shift production and manage resources efficiently.
  • Multiple views allow you to analyze machine, work center, and department capacities. Extensive capabilities exist to drill down into detailed scheduling data including orders making up the demand, as well as analysis of bottlenecks.
  • Alternate routings allow automatic calculation of "available to promise" (ATP) dates for easy bottleneck resolution.