• Manufacturing
• Distribution
• Service Sector
• Food and Beverage
  • About SI Foodware
  • Assembly
  • Business Essentials
  • Catch Weight
  • Consignment Management
  • Container Management
  • EDI
  • Excise Duty Management
  • Inspection Status
  • Mailroom
  • Non Conformances
  • Production Specification
  • Quality Control
  • Rebates
  • Radio Frequency
  • Scales Connection
  • SSCC Labels
  • Transport Management

Business Essentials

Technology Management and Schouw Informatisering have successfully implemented ERP systems at a large number of companies in the food and beverage industry. As a result, we not only has a wealth of experience, but its system also supports a wide range of functionality specifically developed for food applications. Based on best practices this functionality has been tested and integrated into the standard sector specific software solution SI Foodware®.

This company-wide solution is fully integrated in Microsoft Dynamics®NAV. More than 120 companies operating in the Food & Beverage industry rely daily on our application to manage their businesses in the best possible way.

SI Foodware

The Food and Beverage industry is characterised by specific requirements which can often not be catered for by a standard company-wide solution. For this reason Schouw Informatisering and Technology Management have combined their many years of knowledge and experience into SI Foodware®. In combination with Microsoft Dynamics® NAV, SI Foodware® forms a fully integrated standard company-wide ERP solution specifically for food and beverage companies.

SI Foodware is under continuous development and meets the latest industry requirements. This creates a specific solution, where costs remain manageable as the amount of customisation is reduced to a minimum. SI Foodware has been recognised by Microsoft with the highest quality label: 'Certified for Microsoft Dynamics'. SI Foodware consists of a number of integrated solutions, the foundation of which is SI Foodware - Business Essentials. This solution complements Dynamics NAV with a wide range of specific functionality for companies in the food and beverage industry.

Business Essentials

By combining Dynamics NAV with SI Foodware, you will be able to automate 90% of your company processes. Because you might not need all the functionality we have developed, SI Foodware is structured in solutions and Business Essentials is the foundation. The functionality embedded in Business Essentials is fully integrated with Dynamics NAV. To give you an overview, the key functionality is outlined below. Please contact us for details of the complete functionality contained within SI Foodware - Business Essentials.

Financial Management

In Financial Management, a number of improvements have been made, for example in the area of costing and inventory revaluation. We have also added functionality for combined invoicing. In transit sales and purchases are another option you may wish to utilise.

Sales & Marketing

In this module, functionality has mainly been added regarding order entry, prices and discounts. An example of additional functionality at order entry is the order advice. The system makes recommendations based on a fixed customer or customer group range of items or on historical data. In the area of prices and discounts it is possible to define a generic price unit, to use a hierarchical pricing structure and add various item surcharges to the sales price. For example the system can automatically calculate the packaging tax.

Purchase

You will find much of the functionality on the sales side of the system also present on the purchase side. For example, in the Purchase module you have the option to create a purchase call list that gives you an overview of the suppliers to be called on a specific day. This purchase call list is created in exactly the same way as the sales call list. You can also generate a purchase order advice based on the product range you purchase from a supplier.

Warehouse

In Warehouse management various functionality such as item attributes, catch weight items, containers, shelf-life checks, packaging, SSCC labels and inspection status have been integrated with the standard functionality of Dynamics NAV. This applies to both the inventory pick and put-away, as well as the Warehouse Management and Warehouse Management System environments.

Production

For Production, modifications have been made in costing, backflushing, production order handling and planning. In addition to taking the capacity costs of machines into account, you can also work with the cost of labour. Production order processing is integrated with logistics functionality so a day and week planning overview can be created in which production orders can be planned with finite capacity. Finally, a production optimisation feature has been developed which is able to sort production orders based on optimal setup times.

The SI Foodware - Business Essentials solution also contains a wide range of functionality which is not specific to the food and beverage industry. Furthermore, hundreds of documents and reports have been added in the standard layout including multiple translations per report. Perhaps the most important characteristic of SI Foodware - Business Essentials is the complete integration with Dynamics NAV and other SI Foodware solutions.

The solution can therefore be characterised as a total standard solution for food and beverage companies in which software customisation is reduced and efficiency is increased.