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for Food and Beverage

latest changes 2009/05/27
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Enhancements to SAP® ERP

OR Soft has vast experience in the Food and Beverage industries. Based on this experience and the experience from more than 20 years of developing software solutions for planning and scheduling, OR Soft offers a wide range of solutions that enhance SAP ERP with functionalities, which are required and preferred by Supply Chain Managers and Production Schedulers. The industry specific packages for Food and Beverages contain both standard planning and scheduling functionality from Manufacturing Workbench – OR Soft’s main APS software solution, as well as industry specific features like:


  • Shelf life monitoring
  • Campaign handling (one or more bulk orders allocated to various packing orders)
  • Multi-product tank management
  • Planning of cleaning times, setup times, and CIP
  • Semi-automatic planning of order quantities based on customer demands and a dynamic range of coverage/ order sequencing
  • Multi-level ATP check

These additional functionalities to SAP ERP are available on the basis of the existing data and information in the SAP system environment. These Add-ons to SAP ERP provide all of the necessary elements to increase the delivery reliability and to prevent quality based loss.

Shelf Life Cockpit
The Shelf Life Cockpit is a plug and play solution package for SAP ERP. This monitor analyzes the stock and requirement lists to identify those amounts of material that could expire. The cockpit contains conflict indicators for expiring quantities of material, as well as detailed information about the corresponding expiration dates. For further analysis of these conflicts, a drill-down function is available to support the user in detail.

This solution package can be easily installed and activated with small customization effort. The solution is expected to assist the planner, sales and distribution departments to avoid stock expiration conflicts. By having just-in-time information about possible expiration conflicts, necessary corrections can be made to prevent quality based loss.
Packaging Planner
The Packaging Planner is a specialized tool that calculates and optimizes order quantities based on the actual demand situation (customer orders, latest sales forecast). This calculation is not based on static safety stocks, but checking the range of coverage, taking into consideration the actual demand situation.

Cleaning and setup times are added automatically by the algorithm. A lot of functions (alerts, cockpits, scheduling algorithms) are available for automatic scheduling runs based on different planning strategies, as well as for manual adjustments and interactive working.
Best practices for "Food and Beverage"
This pre-defined version is a special solution package of the Manufacturing Workbench with emphasis on the requirements of this industry. Shelf life monitoring, multi-product tank management, campaign handling, and other functions are included in this package. The package can be implemented easily without big effort in a short time frame.
SAP Services PartnerThis software was developed by OR Soft GmbH, Germany. OR Soft is a certified development and implementation partner of SAP AG for solutions in the areas of production logistics, planning and optimization. More tools for production planning, supply chain management and MS Excel user GUIs for SAP ERP can be found at www.orsoft.net.

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Additional information products offered by OR Soft Jaenicke GmbH: *

SAP Best Practices - Advanced Planning Board *
Planners Workbench for SAP ERP and SCM *
smartPlan - electronic whiteboard

Topics and Technology

Industry Solutions

Material stock reduction
Detailed Scheduling
Supply Chain Management
Simulation, Optimization, Analysis
Master Data Maintenance *
Automated System Testing for SCM & ERP
Workbench for SAP SCM
Shelf Life *
*also in English, others only in German

Repetitive Manufacturing, Automotive *
Made-to-order production, Assembly
Pharma, Packaging
Oil and Refineries *
Chemicals
Utilities, Maintenance, Service
Food, Beverages *
Lab planning *
Metal Production and Foundries *

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