Food & Beverage – Boyum BEAS for SAP B1
Beas Manufacturing for SAP Business One helps to improve production execution and control, allowing food & beverage manufacturers to achieve high product consistency. Increasing the quantity and accuracy of production information gives great insight into daily food & beverage operations.
Boyum BEAS for SAP Business One
The Boyum’s BEAS manufacturing application is a market leading extension product for SAP Business One for the Food and Beverage industry. Together, BEAS & SAP Business One are a world-class ERP solution for food and beverage manufacturers. BEAS adds industry specific functions to SAP Business One and extends SAP Business One capabilities across many areas such as expanded quality control, product costing and visualization, version management of recipes, advanced manufacturing and scheduling capabilities & compliance activities. The solution includes all the expected capabilities in an ERP system such as batch / lot tracking, file management, electronic approvals and workflows, flexible costing methods, fractional quantities, multiple stock locations, and BOM’s with the added benefits of recipe specific manufacturing capabilities and advanced warehousing as an option.
Inventory
BEAS for SAP Business One helps companies calculate true product margins quickly and efficiently. Intelligent management of inventory in BEAS for SAP Business One leads to a reduction in obsolete stock and avoidance of unnecessary excess stock holdings. The addition of Boyum’s advanced warehousing system which is tightly integrated with Boyum BEAS and SAP Business One means fewer pick errors and faster picking of production orders and sales orders. The application of company specific picking, moving and receipting rules further reduces warehousing costs and improves customer service.
Manufacturing
The system supports optimization of resources with preventative maintenance capabilities to increase production line availability. The system also supports application of HACC food safety standards. Strong product life cycle management reduces the possibility of inadvertently using redundant recipes or using ingredients that that don’t satisfy a customer’s contractual expectations (Shelf-life as an example.) Integration with systems such as Evocon OEE can help manage equipment calibration. Contaminates, wash downs and set up times are considered when scheduling work-orders leading to optimized production scheduling.
There are many business systems spruiked as having been designed for the food and beverage industry In most instances they are simply a case of linking two unrelated and different looking applications together to create a solution. Their treatment of inventory is the usual giveaway. BEAS for SAP Business One doesn’t use multiple inventory data sets which many of the other systems do. Inventory data in BEAS for SAP Business One is updated in a timely manner which supports better more informed and timely decision making. BEAS is written on the SAP Business One platform making it highly useable with industry high-levels of user acceptance.
Some of the industry specific capabilities in a BEAS for SAP Business One include the ability to manage co-products and by-products in the product recipe, management of waste and scrap in the planning and production process and the availability of FEFO/FIFO rules to best manage shelf-life.
QC
The quality control capabilities in BEAS for SAP Business One removes the need for time consuming pen and paper data capture and enhances a company’s ability to comply with all their applicable rules and regulations
Risi is 40% more efficient in their production processes with Beas Manufacturing and B1 Usability Package (See the image)
For over 50 years, Risi SA, one of the leading Spanish manufacturers and distributors of appetizers, snacks, and chips, has produced over 8,000 tons of products and 350 million packages in 60 different formats annually. The company produces a wide variety of corn, rice, and wheat products, serving customers worldwide. These items are produced and stored in the company’s factories and warehouses, covering over 40,000 sqm. The company has partnered with Seidor.
The combination of B1 Usability Package and Beas Manufacturing brought these results:
- More control of the processes with real time information to make quick decisions
- Cost control in the production process
- Traceability of raw materials and scalability
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