Sage PFW for Food and Beverage Industry

• Because Sage PFW ERP reflects over 20 years of continuous development in helping customers succeed, it is widely recognized as the industry standard for functional richness. The following are highlights of where Sage PFW can impact your ability to gain a competitive edge:

	Multi-currency capability
	Multi-language
	On-water tracking using Serialized Shipment Container Codes
	Automated vendor lead-time management
	Enterprisewide planning and budgeting
	Vendor quality management
	EDI
	Material Requirements Planning
	Lot tracking by lot number, bin number, expiration date
	Full AP integration
	QC test results entered upon receipt
	Contract management
	Support for formulation and batch size adjustments for ingredient potency
	Monitor Key Performance Indicators for quality variations, price variations, margin variations

Food Safety and Nutritional Labeling - in today's increasingly litigious and regulated environment, it is critical that food manufactures maintain brand expectations of the quality of product. Sage PFW manufacturing provides powerful tools for ensuring the maintenance of high product quality standards, such as:

	Powerful computerized formulation laboratory
	Comparative physical properties analysis
	Comprehensive vendor quality analysis
	Multiple lot tracking methodologies
	Quarantine and expiration date control
	Complete QC data history maintenance
	Full-function nutritional labeling capability

Benefits

Rapid Response to Competitive Challenges - Sage PFW is specifically designed to allow you not only to be faster and more accurate in operations but also be able to react flexibly to customer needs.

	"One-stop" order entry providing same screen access to:
		Customer history
		Contract data
		Custom pricing tables
		Production data
		Inventory data
		Substitution data
	Option to launch batch orders from order entry
	Advanced material planning features
		Material shortage analysis wizard
		Seven different methods of automated batch sizing
		Automatic unit of measurement for formulation and batches
		"Backflush" material requisitioning

Food and Beverage Modules

	Costing
	Formulas
	Labeling
	Laboratory
	Inventory Pro
	MRP
	Order Entry Pro
	Production
	Purchasing Pro