Food & Beverage

CitySoft represents two key ERP software vendors (SAP & Sage) and support three business system solutions for food and beverage manufacturers namely the Sage X3 ERP manufacturing suite, BatchMaster for SAP Business One and Boyum’s BEAS for SAP Business One

Our Solutions

CitySoft offer three process manufacturing specific ERP systems. The systems are designed for businesses who manufacture based on recipes or formulas. BEAS and BatchMaster extend the SAP Business One ERP system adding best of breed process manufacturing capabilities to SAP Business One ERP.

The Sage X3 ERP manufacturing suite provides mid-sized process manufacturing enterprises a powerful all in one ERP system. Procession if required, adds best of breed product lifecycle management (PLM) to Sage X3 ERP.

The Sage X3 ERP suits larger more sophisticated enterprises than BEAS and BatchMaster for SAP Business One albeit the addition of BEAS or BatchMaster to SAP Business One ERP increases the appeal and suitability of these two solutions to a broader audience.

When a company is unsure which product best satisfies their business requirements, CitySoft helps by recommending the product with the best fit from the three manufacturing ERP solutions.

Food & Beverage manufacturers choosing to work with CitySoft stand to benefit from a whole host of smart technologies and business process improvements.

World-class ERP

Optimized Production processes

Preventative Maintenance

Product lifecycle Management

Smart Machine integration (Evecon OEE and many others)

Advanced inventory control

Radio Frequency Warehouse Management

Integrations with market leading Cloud applications (IoT)

Compliance & Quality Control measures

EDI

Product, Container, shelf labelling

Business Intelligence & reporting

Expanded supplier master data (Contracts, HACCP…)

Flexible product costing

Document & file management

3PL integrations

An amazing suite of inventory capabilities missing in many ERP systems.

Weigh scale and weigh bridge integration

BatchMaster for SAP Business One

BatchMaster software for food & beverage manufacturers is built on the SAP Business One platform meaning together they form a single unified end to end business system. BatchMaster for SAP Business One delivers one consistent set of system behaviours, one common user interface & menu system and importantly one inventory system.

BatchMaster adds industry specific functions, as required by a food & beverage manufacturer, to SAP Business One ERP and in many instances extends existing SAP Business One ERP features to deliver more focused industry capabilities.

The main areas where BatchMaster delivers for food and beverage manufacturers include quality control, new product development, compliance, process manufacturing and inventory management.

In addition to all the typical ERP capabilities businesses expect these days the BatchMaster for SAP Business One system also includes –

Sampling or continuous production testing, both in-process or on finished goods.
Nutritional reporting & labelling
Parameter Testing and Reporting on ingredients and Experimental or Modified Recipes (material substitutions).
Ingredients and packaging acceptance testing before release
Compliance to meet all HACCAP requirements
Ingredients Quarantine feature
The ability to collect and store information on all aspects of the product development process before it becomes an asset to the business.
cGMP compliance
Easy material substitutions
Comprehensive recipe management

BEAS for SAP Business One

Adding the Beas Manufacturing suite from Boyum, SAP’s leading SAP Business One developer, to SAP Business One, turns SAP Business One ERP into a powerful end to end business system for food and beverage process manufacturers. The availability of industry specific system functionality represented by F&B specific fields, screens and business processes & the ability to further tailor the system to cater for additional needs makes BEAS for SAP Business One for food and beverage manufacturers the ideal business partner. The option to add Boyum Advanced warehousing to BEAS for SAP Business One stands to create an even more complete end-to-end business solution for the F&B industry.

BEAS, built on the SAP Business One platform, provides system users with a uniform user interface and optimized business processes. The system excels at collecting shop floor data from people and machines and streamlining business processes.

Sage X3

The strengths of Sage X3 ERP for food and beverage manufacturers is its ability to eloquently cater for multiple manufacturing sites in one or multiple countries and to manage in a single folder multiple companies, offices, sites, and warehouses. The system boasts great functional depth to cater for food and beverage manufacturers and uses leading technologies that suit enterprises operating across multiple locations and even countries.

Sage X3, as a development platform, makes integrating Sage X3 with smart machines, sensors, CMMS and other Cloud software systems far easier than most if not all other ERPs. Additionally, the release by Sage of a GraphQL API has been a game changer. With QC capabilities, the status “quarantined stock” and all the expected inventory characteristic present in the core license, Sage X3 is a cost-effective business solution for small to mid-sized enterprises who require system sophistication but without the tier 1 ERP price tag.

Lascom Product Lifecycle Management

Lascom PLM software is designed to help enterprises who develop, design, manufacture, or market food and beverage products. It better manages the many and varied aspects associated with taking a product concept through to commercialisation.

Lascom Lime will help you comply with local and global regulations regarding tracking & labelling. As a Web-native Cloud product lifecycle software, it will help you speed up your product launch times, while also assisting you to successfully enter new markets. Lascom Lime collects and manages data concerning a product’s recipes, packaging and compliance requirements, leading to more streamlined new product development processes. Lascom will help you respond faster to rapidly changing consumer tastes.

Faster and lower-cost responses to changing industry conditions and buyer preferences will help you better defend and grow your market share against competitors.

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Lascom Lime PLM helps you optimise your internal processes by converting information into data that can be properly analysed and utilised with far greater certainty over data accuracy and decision making.

Over 90% of new products in the F&B space fail. Lascom Lime increases your success rate when launching new products. Lascom helps determine accurate product costing information that in turn supports price point decisions and likely market share matters that influence the viability of a new products success and contribution.

Food & Beverage segments where Lascom PLM software suits, includes; producers of pet foods, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages such beer and cider and fruit, dairy, sport, soft drink, manufacturers of convenience foods, prepared fresh and frozen meals, TV dinner, health foods, desserts, chocolates, soups and snack foods.

Product Lifecycle Management Made Simple

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“Our goal of a single, reliable, and secure source of product information that we can all tap into has been achieved. We’re very happy with the support we received from Lascom to make this project a success.”

Raj Gandhi,
Operations Accounting
at Bolthouse Farms Campbell’s Soup.