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Drive success, consistently

Ensure the reliable quality your customers demand from your manufacturing business while minimising risk.

Improve efficiency, drive productivity, and promote compliance

Achieve 75% faster process cycle time and 57% faster inventory turns in your process manufacturing business.

It’s impossible to streamline your operations when your ERP, CRM, and supply chain processes are siloed.

Old infrastructure, high costs, reduced lead times and a need for improved visibility continue to make the environment a tricky one for process manufacturers. Add into the mix the introduction of environmental and safety standards that require additional management and controls, not to mention pressure to improve customer satisfaction, and suddenly the story looks different.

Your process manufacturing business faces four key challenges.

Operations are affected by out-of-date infrastructure

A major concern for many manufacturers. You need software that can help you raise the productivity bar, break new ground, and ensure compliance, if you want to stay ahead of the competition.

You must keep tight control over costs

In a Global CEO Survey on manufacturing competitiveness, Deloitte identified “cost, availability of labour, materials, cost competitiveness of materials, and availability of raw materials” as the third most competitive driver for manufacturers. So it's crucial you understand how much your process manufacturing is spending each week, month, or quarter.

There’s increasing pressure to develop and launch new products

In recent years, it’s become normal for large sections of the food and beverage industry to launch products every year, while pharmaceutical companies are often pushed to accelerate the development of new antibiotics as outbreaks of drug-resistant ‘superbugs’ continue to rise.

This means that manufacturers need to be lean and highly flexible in order to keep pace - those encumbered by rigid processes and inefficient systems will be left behind.

It’s essential to maintain quality and meet safety standards

A crucial requirement for all process manufacturers is the ability to keep up with new environmental and safety standards and successfully achieve compliance with new regulations, such as the UN Globally Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS).

Navigating this maze of global laws and restrictions can be a huge challenge, and failure to comply can be extremely costly in financial and reputational terms.

The good news is many UK process manufacturing businesses are overcoming these types of challenges with the right enterprise solution.

Own your supply chain and minimise costs with a solution ready for your industry

From procurement to production, warehousing, e-commerce and sales, and financial and people management - Sage Business Cloud X3 is a faster, simpler, and more flexible way to manage the entire business at a lower cost, on a global scale.

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If you want to manage your finances, operations, or inventory around the world, our solution delivers at a fraction of the cost of traditional ERP software.

  • Simplify inventory management, track and ship orders on time, from multiple locations.
  • Process and track domestic and international orders that customers and your teams can place and monitor 24 hours a day.
  • Maintain an unlimited number of currencies and exchange rates, get daily updates, and automate gains or losses from fluctuations.
  • Automate your finances

Sage X3

Sage X3 provides faster, more intuitive tailored business management solutions than conventional ERP. It's for organizations looking to thrive and retain their competitive advantage by increasing their agility and quickly embracing change.

  • Tailor behaviour, user experiences and automate business processes and operations easily.
  • Get world class cloud capabilities offering customers unrivalled choice.
  • Drive continuous improvement, reduce costs and improve customer experience.
  • Improve production efficiency and quality control
  • Accelerate your entire supply chain from purchasing to delivery

Take control of costs and mitigate risk with a powerful, scalable business management solution

The right business management solution can transform your business - keeping you lean, flexible, and in control.

Minimise waste

Significantly reduce operational costs and waste, while you eliminate the potential dangers of cross- contamination, with greater insight into your entire supply chain.

Reduce the risk of product recalls

Verify the quality, safety, and efficacy of your products at all times and be prepared for possible recalls with total visibility of your operations.

Embrace lean manufacturing principles

Respond faster to changing customer and marketplace demands, and improve the management of fluctuations in purchasing, production, and shipping."

The paint manufacturer

Sage X3 offer an integrated system for ERP, accounts, finance, production, and purchasing. It was attractive to have a solution with all the products in one box.

Martin Wallen, managing director

Firwood Paints

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