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The 6 key advantages of using SAP Business One in your company

The only constant of business is that it changes all the time. Every company tries to find a solution suitable for its specific profile that will give it an advantage over its competitors along with complex client service as well as process and costs optimization. Companies often develop at such a rate that keeping systems and tools up to date is neither practically nor financially viable. Additionally the maintenance and integration of multiple systems often results in analytics disruption and lack of data consistency

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Software Validation by the Arbour Group

ProcessForce + SAP Business One Validation The next generation manufacturing solution for process manufacturers is now fully integrated with SAP Business One resulting in a functionally rich and easy to use solution. ProcessForce provides the functionality required by the unique needs and complexities of process manufacturers, while SAP Business One provides complete business management for financials, sales, customers, […]

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Food and Beverage marketing kit now available in SAP Virtual Agency!

Industry related marketing makes you stand out in the crowd, by illustrating your domain expertise and relating to the customer, thus giving a competitive edge.   With great support from the SAP Business One global marketing team we have pulled together a full marketing pack for the Food and Beverage industry, to support our partners […]

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How do Good Manufacturing Practices and ERP work together?

Within the Food and Beverage industry, a common voiced concern is audits and regulatory compliance, and across the industry there are many standards, such as Safe Quality Food (SQF), British Retail Consortium (BRC) and others which are HACCP based food safety and quality management systems   Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Hazard Analysis and Critical […]

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ProcessForce for SAP Business One 9.1

If you’re looking at SAP Business One 9.1 there are a number of innovations such as “Branches” while on SAP HANA the new Fiori style UI and enhanced Dashboard designer. When we started to build ProcessForce it was critical we developed the solution correctly to offer both partners and customers the same user experience as […]

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Solution Hightlight – Subcontract production in the Process manufacturing world

It is common to find food and beverage and pharmaceutical businesses outsource or subcontract part or all of their production processes to a third party. The brand owner owns the R&D phase of recipe and formulation development and management, and possibly the Quality Assurance and Control, while the subcontractor manages the inventory and production process. […]

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ProcessForce creates 360 Traceability SAP HANA app

If you’re part of a regulated industry supply chain whether it’s pharmaceutical, chemicals or food, traceability is a necessary evil. Governing bodies and codes of practice regulate the industry to ensure standards are implemented for consumers, examples include FDA’s Code of Federal Regulations Title 21 (CFR) and Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMPs) , FDA Food […]

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Backflush, or not to Backflush machine and labour hours, that is the question?

We all understand the benefits of backflushing materials, but what about the backflush of machine and labor hours. Well the benefits are the similar:- Eliminates the need to track production costs Removes paperwork No requirement for entering machine and labor hours Increases data accuracy, by removing potential errors during time recording Simplifies accounting requirements, with […]

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Do you have visibility of your production assets?

The factory has been loaded with production orders, but there are several questions I may need to ask, for example:- Do I have visibility of how the resources (machines and tools) are being used? What if a production order has to be moved, is there enough capacity? Are there any alternative resources and whats the […]

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Scheduling – a solution for improving on-time customer deliveries

Improving on-time customer deliveries, creates happier customers and ultimately improves cash flow. Therefore when moving production orders to take in account changes to the planned schedule, it’s paramount to have the visibility if the changes will negatively impact the customers required delivery date. ProcessForce provides a simple but powerful scheduling solution to manage the production […]

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