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Serve up a more profitable food and beverage company with the right business management software

Minimize waste to reduce costs and risk, and accelerate compliance.
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Do you have the recipe for a highly profitable company?

There's one key ingredient you might be missing: the right business solution.

The food and beverage industry has additional challenges of managing perishable products and navigating strict regulation, not to mention the ever-present danger of recalls and contamination. At times, it can seem overwhelming—that's where you need a business management solution that's built for your industry and specific needs.

Can you overcome the four major challenges facing the food and beverage industry?

Addressing these challenges will help you figure out if your business is compliant, accountable, ready for recalls, and able to maintain consistent product quality.

Achieve compliance, while managing costs

Keeping up with stringent and changing regulation, especially the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), can be a headache for many food and beverage businesses—and no element of the FSMA will have more impact than the “one step forward and one step back” traceability requirements. You need to invest in efficient and accurate tracking along your supply chain in order to comply, but this can be costly and time-consuming to implement.

Prepare for possible recalls

According to a study by Ernst & Young prepared for the Grocery Manufacturers Association, 81% of food and beverage businesses see the financial risk from recalls as significant to catastrophic. Making sure you're prepared for possible recalls isn't just important—it's imperative. So you'll need to invest either time or money in the right technology and in updating your systems and business processes.

Maintain consistency – even as the market changes

At the same time, customers expect consistency even as supply, demand, and the marketplace itself changes. It's challenging to stay in control, keep costs down, and retain flexibility for reacting to these changes, but you can overcome it with the right solution.

Satisfy consumer demands for accountability

Thanks to a wider awareness about the impact of waste on the environment, consumers expect food and beverage businesses to become more accountable for supply chain and their operations.
To meet these demands, you'll need more access to real-time data and the ability to transform your company into a more flexible operation. Only then can you please customers and avoid lost sales.

Control costs and satisfy regulatory obligations with the right business management solution

With the right business management solution, you could all but eliminate waste, effortlessly comply with even the most stringent regulations, and deliver the consistency your customers demand.

Sage 300

Manage finances, operations, and inventory in multiple languages and currencies, ideal for businesses with operations across several cities or countries. Gives you real-time, mobile access to your data from the cloud for visibility across your entire company.

  • Simplify your financials
  • Manage multiple companies and currencies
  • Eliminate international business complexity
  • Simplify inventory management

Sage X3

A business management solution tailored to the demanding medium-sized business user. From procurement to production, warehousing, e-commerce and sales, and financial and people management, gain a faster, simpler, and more flexible way to manage the entire business at a lower cost, on a global scale.

  • Take control of global operations
  • Get the insight you need, when you need it
  • Expand to new markets or geographies
  • Gain agility and focus on your business
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How to become a lean and efficient food and beverage company

Discover what a powerful and flexible business management solution can do for you.

Control costs and reduce waste

Waste—both of perishable goods and in terms of process by-products—can be an economic, environmental, and social issue. The right solution will help you gain greater insight into your supply chain, including inventory tracking and product profitability. It will also help you remain accountable to consumers, and protect the environment while remaining lean and efficient.

Inspire consumer confidence with traceability

Recording the identity of any lot-controlled ingredient is essential if you want to meet industry and government regulations for warranties and quality assurance. The right solution also enables you to assign inventory to meet specific customer needs. What's more, effective scanning and barcoding will help you track your materials and products.

Save time (and money!) while keeping up with compliance

The right solution should be easy to configure, and it should help you meet the requirements of regulatory bodies. It should also gather and present business data automatically and in the right way, so you can reduce administrative overheads and help your business meet its obligations.

Gain better visibility over operations in your food and beverage business

You can prepare for possible recalls with a business management solution that gives you total visibility of your operations, comprehensive lot tracking, and detailed, accurate data at any time. If the worst happens, you’ll be able to determine the scope of the recall and prevent contaminated foods from entering the supply chain.

The leading HR and people management solution

Attract top talent while engaging and nurturing your best people with the world's most innovative and scalable HR and people system.

Engage your people from any device

Engage your global workforce, wherever they may be, with company-branded and customized experiences. Provide seamless user experiences by providing your people with access to view and manage their details, on any device at any time.

One source of truth for data on all your people

Get instant visibility into your workforce with a single source of truth. Reports and dashboards provide actionable insights that enable you to make smarter business decisions.

Be compliant around the world

Support multiple languages, currencies, payrolls, benefit carriers, and third-party applications. Unlike other products, Sage People automates global processes and policies, while allowing regional teams to comply with local regulations.

Design new and better ways of working

HR is changing, and new people processes are emerging. Manage your expanding global workforce, including temp workers, with clever resource planning and flexible capabilities that span the entire employment journey.
Find out more about Sage People

What makes us different

Captivate your entire workforce with the leading HR and people solution on the Salesforce platform.

Rapid implementation

Get up and running quickly and efficiently, leveraging our expertise from implementing hundreds of customers. Go live in as little as 90 days, all done via configuration, not code.

Customers for life

What matters to you matters to us, and you can count on our 98% customer renewal rate. We make sure we know what success means for your company and work with you to deliver on that.

Great value

No more struggling with spreadsheets. Increase HR productivity by up to 80% by eliminating labor-intensive manual processing. Save on installation, maintenance, and implementation costs, harnessing the power of the cloud.

Ensuring compliance with the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard

In this guide, we look at the law’s requirements, speak to an expert working in the area, and outline solutions that manufacturers, retailers, and importers of ingredient suppliers can apply right now.

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