Features
Comprehensive Food ERP Solutions
Certus Food ERP software offers a selection of essential features for managing fundamental business functions, along with designated tools for food industry manufacturers and distributors.
Food Safety / Compliance
Achieve food safety standards compliance with processes for quality, preventative and traceability maintenance. Certus Food ERP software lets business owners exercise accountability for materials and finished food products across all production stages. It enables you to be recall-ready and perform sensitive isolation.
- Inventory entry compliance at the pre-receipt stage
- Preventative maintenance
- Quality audits and checking
- Management of allergens
- Bi-directional type ingredient and product traceability with a recall option
- Hold management for quality assurance
Quality Checking
Certus Food ERP facilitates quality checking and audits at all stages of the production workflow, right from material pre-receipt to product output and the shipment process. Quality checking and audits can be tailored to suit the specific requirements of your production operations.
- Quality checks and audits from pre-receipt to exit
- Inventory entry compliance at the pre-receipt stage
- Support for BRC / GFSI / SQF / HACCP / FSMA certifications
- In-process quality checking and audit
- Data-driven audits (food safety, premises, and GMP)
- Audit-based control release and goods delivery
R&D / Product Development
Our solution lets you utilize recipe management and production-related data to test different ingredient amounts and new formulations. It enables the comparison of present recipes and production processes using novel combinations to discover new recipes, formulas, and products.
- Declaration of ingredients
- BOM costing
- Production formula management
- Lab formula management
- Customized item attributes
- Calculation of nutritional information
- Workflow customization for product introduction and authorization
- Formula costing and comparison
Warehouse / Inventory
Perform hassle-free tracking, handling and recording with a pick and put away method to facilitate precise inventory reports. Bin management and tracking features assure all-inclusive material management and accountability, at all points of a warehouse workflow.
- Physical item counting
- Lot tracking
- Serial-based tracking
- Pick and put away functionality
- FEFO method for expiration date management
- Bin management
- Logistical planning
- Pallet licenses or license plates
- Inventory transfers (same and multiple sites)
- 3PL (third party logistics)
- Variable weight or catch weight
- Shipping and receipt
- SKU-based planning by locations
- Tailored item-specific reorder policies i.e. lead time, safety stock, quality and handling time
- Optional - Electronic Data Interchange for Certus Group
- Optional - Warehouse Management System (device-based)
Manufacturing / Production / Scheduling
With Certus Food ERP features, you can effortlessly manage scheduling activities for production, and plan out all stages including batch processing and combination. Production data assimilation reduces inter-departmental hurdles and facilitates greater production and distribution efficiency.
- Master production schedule planning
- Capacity management
- Bottleneck management
- BOM and reverse BOM
- Production consolidation (item or batch) for similar item grouping
- BOM Net value requirements and computation
- Production forecasts
- Cost analysis
- Management of allergens
- Yield reports
- Production management (multi-plant)
- Activity-based labor costing
- Co-product and co-packer management
- Equipment workflow definition and execution
- Optional: Certus Group ERP Analytics
- Optional: Certus Group MES plant recording
Reporting / Analytics
Certus Food ERP enjoys seamless integration with software applications like Microsoft Power Bl and Office. Its features enable the creation of customizable and insightful reports, including real-time reports on production, purchasing, sales, finance, and scheduling.
- Scheduled reports
- Built-in templates and reports
- Report layout tweaking across Microsoft applications
- Reports can be accessed from any smartphone, tablet and laptop device.
- Specific distributed queries
- Report generation across modules
- Optional: Certus Group ERP Analytics
Purchasing
Our ERP software lets business owners manage orders, create orders from historical data and evaluate vendor performance. Purchasing inputs are in place to help you preserve accountability for materials obtained from vendors.
- Pricing management for purchases
- Vendor management
- Approval workflows
- Order management for individual, contract and blanket orders and quotes
- Rebates on purchase
- Customized per-item reordering policies
- Reorder points or demand-based material requirements planning
- Add on integrated EDI
Sales
Achieve superior customer and sales team management through precise sales commission programs, comprehensive price configurations, and rebate programs to enhance planning and forecasting.
- Contact management
- Direct to store delivery for standing or recurring orders
- Broker and sales commissions
- Customer management
- Pricing (volume, tiers, list management, promos)
- Preset customer orders
- Sales order management for contract, individual and blanket orders
- Rebate management (lump sum, accrued, quantity)
- Trade spend and promotion management
- Optional: Certus Group ERP Advanced Forecasting
- Optional: EDI
Finance
Certus Food ERP software utilizes data from sales, manufacturing and costing into an integrated system, facilitating more streamlined and precise accounting. It also provides conventional accounting application features such as budgeting, invoicing and billing.
- Customer credit and fixed assets management
- Invoicing and billing
- Cost analysis
- Payroll integration
- Budgeting
- Inter-organizational consolidation
- Fixed assets management
- Cash flow forecasts
- Multicurrency
- Accounts payable and receivable
Plant Maintenance / Preventative Maintenance
Food companies benefit from the preventative maintenance functionality as they can evaluate performance across all equipment with real-time usage statistics. It lets production managers schedule usage-based planned maintenance and ensures that equipment undergoes the necessary maintenance in advance. This results in the prevention of failures and ensures uninterrupted production.
- Machine center asset relocation
- Inventory management of components
- Tracking of maintenance time and costs
- Maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) orders
- Planned preventative maintenance planning and scheduling
Options
We also offer options for handheld device assistance, EDI, production scheduling, and warehouse management, in the form of upgrades one can add to the system at any given time. These include our tools for:
- Advanced Forecasting
- Analytics
- EDI
- Data Warehouse
- Device-based Warehouse Management System
- Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
- Production Scheduler
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