FOOD INDUSTRY SERVED
Pie factories • Canning plants • Ready Meal / Frozen Foods • Sweets
Chocolate Factories • Beverage / Cold Drink Factories
SOME OF THE FUNCTIONALITY PROVIDED BY THE SOFTWARE
• Unique Stock Control
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• Product Scanning (from receipt to dispatch)
• Waste Control / Management
• Processing Yield Management
• Packaging and Labelling
• Recipes
• Ingredient Measurement control
• Quality Control on the floor
• Production Batches
• MRP - calculations
• True Cost Calculations
• Point of Sale TILL Systems
• Stock Control per item
• Scanning and Labelling of Shop items
• Stock Ageing
• Multiple Stock Locations
• Stock Integrity
FOOD PROCESSING
Food Matrix is the market-leading supplier of factory floor software to value-adding processors in 10 countries. Active in over 220 processing plants around the world, Food Matrix is designed to cater for both single plant and multi-plant operations.
Food Matrix processing software offers a complete solution for all sectors of processing, food manufacturing and retail industries. We offer full ingredient traceability, recipe formulation, batch traceability and processing yields.
At Food Matrix, we create solutions that not only benefit your business, but also deliver more accurate sales and production planning information. Food Matrix integrates recipe formulation with the production process giving operators on the floor access to recipe information at the press of a button. Auto calculation of recipe ingredient quantities takes the guesswork out of production and puts control in the hands of management.
KEY FEATURES FOR
MEAT PROCESSING
• Purchase order processing
• Supplier intake
• Production planning and forecasting
• Into-production processing
• Bulk and retail packing or labelling
• OCM/Box Packing
- Weigh labelling
• Cookhouse management
• Blast/tempering chill stock management
• Forwards and backwards traceability reporting
• Finished product stock control
• Container loading and shipments
• Daily production reporting
• Warehousing and stock management
• Sales order picking and dispatch
• Third-party cold store integration
• Carton and pallet labelling stations
• Manual operator or fully automatic stations
• Production order tracking
• Verification scanning
• Work in progress (WIP) tracking stations
• Product specification on floor lookup station
In a nutshell, your business has the ability to easily determine the most profitable outcome for the stock that you have available. This results in a higher return on investment, higher productivity, reduction in overall waste and an increase in overall revenue.
MOBILE TECHNOLOGY
The Food Matrix Mobile application is setting standards for mobility in inventory and asset management in the most demanding environments from the warehouse floor to the dock door. The Food Matrix Mobile application, available on any Android device, was developed to showcase our commitment to helping our clients upgrade to the newest technology as cost effective and seamless as possible.
FOOD MATRIX MOBILE APPLICATION FUNCTIONALITY
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Inventory/display compliance
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Omni-channel fulfilment
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Inventory management and cycle count
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Receiving, put-away, reverse logistics
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Picking, staging, packing, shipping
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Process compliance
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Inventory and materials management and cycle counts
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Cross-docking
• Reduce risk of recalls
• Trace products across the value chain
• Incorporate quality assurance registrations
• Provide information to fulfil quality certification requirements
WITH FOOD MATRIX YOU CAN
The mobile computing technology you need to take productivity and accuracy to the next level
SALES & PURCHASES
Food Matrix knows that processors are under constant pressure to achieve ever-faster delivery times and that fast and accurate order fulfilment is a critical part of the logistics process.
Food Matrix manages and speeds up the order cycle. This includes purchase orders, production orders, inventory orders and sales orders. Moreover, Food Matrix enables processors to eliminate under- and overproduction.
The Food Matrix despatch module ensures complete support for ordering, invoicing, warehousing and logistics trip planning. Packaging and palletising of orders simplifies the delivery process.
• Optimises order management from reception to dispatch
• Plans production capacity and lead time based on raw materials
• Is flexible in responding to changing customer requirements
LOGISTICS & WAREHOUSING
EFFICIENT
PRODUCTION PLANNING
With the Food Matrix dock scheduling software, you have the tools to refine your day-to-day schedule, allowing you to save time and money by decreasing late shipments and detention fees.
This solution offers online appointment scheduling for carriers and monitors their status in real time. It also has the ability for inbound coordinators to prioritise shipments, refuse carrier requests, or configure prioritisation rules and constraints to automate the scheduling process.
The automated truck/order allocation function in Food Matrix takes into consideration the trailer type, dock type, special equipment, and product handling unit types. Furthermore, it offers load levelling of the flow of goods to dock resources, appointment audit trails and reporting as well as milestone notification.
Production planners need to meet crucial delivery times whilst ensuring accuracy and efficiency throughout the entire production cycle. With Food Matrix, planners can ensure that raw materials are consumed as effectively as possible in accordance with current order status and current production capabilities.
KEY FEATURES
• Gain total control over current orders in production
• Assign order lines to processes, manually or automatically
• Generate production orders for multi-step processes
• Provides a more accurate estimate of raw material required to fill orders
• Provides a more accurate estimate of the production capacity available at any given time
LABELLING SOLUTION
Food Matrix enables organisations around the world to improve safety, security, efficiency and compliance by creating and automating the printing and control of labels, barcodes, RFID tags and more.
Companies now have the opportunity to produce a wide variety of flexible label designs without the need to create and maintain hundreds of separate documents. Simply send templates, layers and even objects to print based on a single data source, database field or on multiple conditions.
The Food Matrix Labelling Solution includes password-protected layers to prevent unauthorised edits and the possibility to share global data fields such as incrementing serial numbers among all documents.
COMPREHENSIVE AUTOMATION & CONTROL
Food Matrix enables large enterprises to centrally operate, monitor, manage and secure their printing operations across multiple sites and even continents.
Food Matrix supports permission-based printing, format encryption, job logging and system auditing.
OVERVIEW OF ADDITIONAL FOOD MATRIX FEATURES
Contact Management Tools •
Sales Inventory Inquiry •
Remote Order Entry •
Customer and Volume Pricing •
Point of Sale (POS) •
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) •
Batch Product Transfers •
Purchase Order Miscellaneous Charges (POMC) •
Inventory Control •
Warehouse and Freezer control •
Traceability •
Country of Origin Labelling (COOL) •
Import Tracking •
By-Product Costing, Tracking and Production •
Bar Code Printing, Scanning and Inventory Control •
Physical Inventory Verification •
• Production Processing
• Portion Control
• Catch Weight Processing
• Lot / Yield Management
• Production Packing Stations
• Enhanced Production Quality Control
• Barcoding for Accurate Quality Checks and Cost Tracking
• Materials Requirements Planning (MRP)
• Batch Recipe Management
• Purchase Order Processing
• Costing and Pricing
• Scale Interface
• Touch Screen PC Support
• Dispatch / Delivery
• Truck Route / Manifest
• Business Intelligence (BI)