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Microsoft Dynamics Industry

Food and Beverage Distributors

 

 
 
 

Microsoft Dynamics AX for food and beverage distributors enables your staff to drive down the cost of distribution by integrating your business and financial systems with the warehouse, allowing you to react quickly to changing retailer demand signals and effectively remove waste in your warehouse activities.

 

Benefits include:

 

Track products from your supplier to the retailer's shelf and react rapidly and efficiently to product recalls and food safety concerns.

Quickly add and remove products due to completely integrated business functionality.

Order products based on retailer demands and accurately track shipping and delivery of products by integrating Automatic Data Collection (ADC) functionality with business systems.

Remove wasted activities in the warehouse and manage multiple campaigns devised by a range of manufacturers.

 

Food safety

Track items from the time of product purchase through the warehouse to delivery to the retailer's shelf with lot and location control. Retrieve data easily that can help you respond to recall notices or queries about how the item was made and where it may currently be in use.

 

Advanced supply chain management

Automate inventory control and warehouse processes to help move goods efficiently to distribution centers and stores. Be better equipped to negotiate with suppliers and retailers about product costs, timing and product placement.

 

Campaign management

Track sales and inventory based on key performance indicators (KPIs). Maximize returns on manufacturer rebates by monitoring them in real time.

 

Improve operational efficiency

Streamline warehouse operations by removing wasted efforts. Tightly and automatically integrate product receiving and delivery with back-end financial systems. Execute contracts effectively to reduce the time needed to procure stock and ship products.

 

Control your processes from start to finish

Track items with lot and location control functionality, following them from the time products are purchased out of the warehouse to the time of delivery.

 

Features overview

 Benefit

 Description

 

Campaign management

Track results continuously and automate tasks and processes as you manage the marketing and sales efforts that are driven by your customer campaigns.

RFID Support

Achieve compliance with important supply chain relationships and take advantage of improved efficiency, visibility, and exception handling brought about by radio frequency identification (RFID) enablement and support.

Lot and location tracking

Being able to trace product back to its origin is of vital importance. These vital tracking features allow you to track the origins of inventory effectively and correct inconsistencies and exceptions affecting your operations.

Supply chain management

The right software is a key enabler in improving visibility, collaboration, planning, and execution of your supply chain. All this is imperative in driving the operational profitability of any food and beverage distributing organization.

Available to promise (ATP) capabilities

Manage the capacity and availability of materials with available to promise (ATP) capabilities that provide accurate inventory, scheduling, and delivery information throughout the supply chain.

Integration with familiar technology

Maximize your technology investment by taking advantage of the close integration Microsoft Dynamics AX has with familiar, powerful Microsoft products such as Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0, the Microsoft Office system, and the Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 messaging client.

Graphical planning engine

A specialized planning engine lets you use drag-and-drop functionality to graphically view the impact of changes on your processes, allowing you to evaluate several what-if scenarios and determine an effective course of action.

Flexible analysis and reporting capabilities

Integrated information in both summary and detailed views can help you improve decision-making, target the most attractive markets, and reduce risk.

Multi-country capabilities and CRM

Add functionality, such as multi-country capabilities or customer relationship management (CRM), as your business grows. Customize your solution to meet increasing customer demands for quality, safety, and performance.

Next step:

Request more information  about how Microsoft Dynamics AX can meet your organization's needs.

 



 
    
 
 
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