Manufacturing Execution System for Food
Transformation Industry
The dynamic food and beverage industry’s
changing environment places significant demands on
manufacturing and logistics operations. To meet these
demands, OCR CHAIN MES provides your business with the
functionalities that meet these new demands.
Food Safety and Brand Risk Avoidance
Over the past years, consumer demands on food safety
have increased significantly and issues of quality and
safety have surfaced as major issues facing food and
beverage businesses. On top of this, more asset
visibility and traceability is being demanded by
government regulators and power retailers. Standards are
rising and new regulations are being created by
institutions such as Carrefour and Wal-Mart.
Lack of concordance with safety regulations can lead
to loss of consumer confidence in your business’
brand name and can result in the loss of a whole product
line or even the company in its entirety. In the past,
companies have tended to place large amount of resources
into establishing and maintaining their brand’s
value, but little has been done to minimize the risk of
losing brand reputation. With the recent growing number
of food security incidents, consumers are beginning to
lose confidence in food and beverage providers.
Industry Challenges:
Product Recall
Food and Beverage businesses are particularly
interested in taking extra risk avoidance measures as
they recognize that recalling a product is five times as
costly as the initial cost to distribute the products.
Product recall operations can drain an immense amount of
resources from your company, especially if products are
exported. After the products are recalled, additional
costs are incurred to clean up or get rid of the
defective products, further increasing costs.
Material Management Complexity
To optimize efficiency of operations, OCR CHAIN
manages the complex handling of data with LIFO, LEFO,
FEFO, and FEFO methods and meets the functionality
demands of the client’s demands of required
shelf-life. The solution can be configured to fit user
specified catch weight methods. By recording the weights
of outbound and inbound products and noting any
out-of-tolerance conditions, it can eliminate many
errors.
Meeting Specific Customer Requirements
OCR CHAIN offers the user many options and can be
configured to meet specific customers’ demands
- Compliances/ Private Labeling
- Kitting and Valued Added Services (VAS)
- EDI transactions
- Web-Based Inventory and Tracking Visibility for
Supply Chain Partners/Customers
Extended Traceability Capabilities
Complete product traceability is a must in
today’s food and beverage industry. OCR
CHAIN’s traceability management solution delivers a
system that offers complete end-to-end tracking of your
inventories across the entire supply chain that is
manageable in real time. All inventory items are given
are identified uniquely with a designated License Plate
(LP) which allows it to be accurately tracked by the
system taking in to consideration its expiration date,
lot number, serial number, etc. A complete record of
activities is kept by the system so that there is
complete, real-time visibility of all activities. All
materials that are used throughout the separate
production stages are tracked by the system along the
supply chain and the system comes with a recall function
as well as an ingredient tracking system.
