Food and beverage companies face many unique supply chain challenges. These include complex inventory control and allocation issues, increasingly challenging regulatory/product recall requirements, RFID, slow growth markets that necessitate continuous cost reduction, high transportation costs, and both plant-direct and "mixing center" distribution models.
In addition, many food and beverage companies are involved in Direct Store Delivery (DSD), either directly or through distribution partners, which creates further logistics challenges.
Softeon provides a powerful set of capabilities for food and beverage supply chains. This includes capabilities both for manufacturers, as well as a special focus on the unique requirements of DSD for beverage and food distributors.
With the growing interest and requirements for RFID within food and beverage companies, Softeon provides the industry's only fully-RFID-enabled WMS, providing a platform for achieving internal ROI while meeting compliance requirements.
Just a few of the capabilities provided by Softeon and typically required by food and beverage companies include:
- Sophisticated inventory control: lot, batch, FEFO and expiration date management, etc.
- Flexible inventory allocation rules
- Catch weight/catch unit processing
- Advanced wave management and order release functionality
- Native RFID support
- Powerful task management/task interleaving
- Slotting optimization
- Yard and dock door management
- Labor and resource management
- Value-added processing
- Retail compliance (labeling, documentation, RFID, EDI)
- Completely integrated voice technology support
- Optimal truck loading, including side loaded vehicles
- Mobile applications for route drivers
- Transportation management
- Order management
- Powerful event management
Food and beverage companies will find Softeon provides many unique features that deliver outstanding value, built upon the industry's most advanced technical architecture.
To download a brochure providing more details on Softeon's solutions for the beverage delivery industry, click here (1.4 MB PDF). This brochure is also applicable to many other DSD companies in the food industry.
