Deacom ERP Software for Dairy Manufacturing
Overcoming Your Unique Challenges
Deacom ERP provides a flexible solution with industry-specific functionality that can be easily configured to your unique requirements. With extensive knowledge and experience in food and beverage, we help dairy processors navigate the dynamic nature, complexity, and versatility of your industry. By working with companies in the dairy industry, we have been able to identify several key challenges and critical business issues that must be addressed.
Producer Payroll
For processors that must purchase raw milk, producer payroll is a key business requirement. Processors need to automatically account for deliveries throughout the month and record specific grading for these deliveries. At the end of the month, these deliveries must be shored up and reconciled based on the updated milk pricing.
Quality Control
As materials are received or produced, quality control becomes an essential piece to any dairy processor. Whether you are recording butter fats on incoming raw materials or testing for microbes on the finished goods, these companies need to make sure that products being shipped always adhere to the company’s standards as well as customer and food safety requirements.
Lot Tracking and Inventory Visibility
Visibility to inventory and more specifically lot traceability is a key requirement for all our customers, specifically anyone in the dairy industry. You need to track lots forward and backward in real-time throughout the supply chain. Being able to complete a mock recall, or an actual recall, in the required allotted time is also essential to these businesses.
Catch Weight Functionality
Many dairy producers face challenges when it comes to managing and recording individual, variable weights of products. Software that
provides catch weight functionally that not only integrates with scales but also automatically generates labels and barcodes based on the weight is key to the production process.
Variance Reporting
Too often, there are discrepancies between the amount of products sold and the amount produced. Not having a clear understanding of the amount of “giveaway” you are producing can have a direct hit to your bottom line and operational efficiencies.
Forecasting
The dynamic nature of the dairy industry creates significant challenges around proper demand planning. In order to ensure that there is enough inventory to meet consumer needs without surplus, you need to look beyond current sales orders and jobs. This can force you to work outside the ERP system to attain more powerful forecasting capabilities but, in turn, creates another bolt-on and risks data accuracy.
Direct Store Delivery (DSD)
For companies that deliver directly to restaurants, mom-and-pop stores, or grocery chains, direct store delivery functionality becomes a key piece of your business needs. The issue arises when data is not stored in a single location and does not synchronize in real-time. This can cause issues when managing sales orders or getting an accurate view of inventory levels. Your DSD functionality must allow users to process sales, manage inventory levels, record signatures, collect payments, and generate receipts all in real time while on their routes.
Key Benefits Gained with Deacom
Resiliency strategies for the supply chain, operational excellence, quality and safety, and consistently meeting regulatory requirements of the Dairy industry are driving the need for processors to leverage an enterprise software system that is tailored to their market. A software solution that provides efficient and centralized data processing with Hyper-Tight Process Control™ is extremely important. Below are some of the benefits being realized by customers employing the use of Deacom ERP:
Strict Lot Control with Track and Trace
Minimize risk with real-time visualization of enterprise lot control data.
- Meet compliance and traceability regulatory requirements.
- Embrace and support new regulations quickly.
- React quickly and precisely to immediate crises with forward and backward traceability - between supplier to customer.
- Identify specific products and customers affected by a lot quality issue.
- Identify lots with quality issues based on customer complaints so other customers who received products from those lots can be properly informed.
- Deliver valuable and reliable information to retailers and consumers by leveraging data (quality, transactions, batches, etc.) that travels with the product throughout the supply chain.
- Improve confidence in your product with online access to trace line data for customers and regulators.
- Validate your corporate social responsibility initiatives around quality and customer responsiveness, environmental responsibility, and sustainable development.
Eliminate “the cost of being wrong.”
Hyper-Tight Process Control™
- Gain real-time information and strict process control from planning with Material Requirements Planning (MRP) » Receiving goods » Quality Check to Production » Production » Quality Check after Production » Document Generation » Shipment.
- Prevent potential “costs of being wrong” like legal claims, recalls, low customer satisfaction, removal from preferred supplier lists, and much more because of bypassed production or quality control steps.
Maintain high quality standards from receiving through production and shipping.
Native Quality Control
- Leverage a structured approach to keeping company quality and food safety data by setting up quality control measures and comparing them with the actual quality control results.
- Ensure the highest quality products for your customers by using quality control holds throughout production.
- Manage quality, identify ingredient issues, and catch errors early so necessary adjustments can be made on the spot - before the product ships out the door.
- Prevent recalls by constantly analyzing and improving product data in real-time.
- Satisfy (or exceed) food safety standards.
- Significantly reduce preparation time for audits by providing audit reports based on operational production data.
- Trace quality data such as farming feed, medication, laboratory time, temperature measurements, or any other relevant critical process indicators.
Generate necessary Nutrition Facts Label, CoA, and Other Documents
Documents and Label Management
- Automate the process of creating documents and completely eliminate the manual creation of these documents outside of your ERP system.
- Create and manage regulatory documents including Certificate of Analysis (COA) and Nutrition Fact labels.
- Add user-/customer-defined information for allergy reporting and other requirements.
- Create user-/customer-defined calculations.
- Design form layouts and determine printing settings.
Complexity Made Simpler
Transforming complex business processes into a simpler solution is at the heart of the Deacom software development philosophy. This concept drives the mission to provide ONE System, ONE User Experience, ONE Predictable Price, ONE Team, and ONE Solution for your industry.
Deacom ERP provides a level of individual configuration, flexibility, and functionality necessary for dairy processors to drive success in a simpler and more practical way - now and into the future.
ONE System
Native capabilities like CRM, QC, WMS, DSD, E-commerce, and many more, are all part of the base ERP solution meeting your complex requirements.
ONE User Experience
Intuitive and consistent working experience across all departments, all platforms, and all devices.
ONE Solution for Your Industry
Native industry-specific functionality and processes with functional depth.
ONE Team
The ECI Deacom Team is the single partner for everything you need: software, implementation, training, service, and support.
ONE Predictable Price
Understanding that an ERP implementation is a significant investment, businesses that implement Deacom have full pricing transparency going into the project
Choose the best solution for your business
Deacom Offerings
Deacom now offers two packaged solutions Deacom Essentials and Deacom Enterprise.
Deacom Essentials is more of an a la carte-solution that is perfect for growing companies that might not need all of the features and functionality. Deacom Enterprise is the full software with all of the bells and whistles.
LEARN MORE about each of these offerings.