Food Management Dashboard: Business Intelligence
Most Food & Beverage companies produce and store large amounts of information. There is an ever increasing administrative burden, mostly in conjunction with food safety regulations. How can you get the exact information you need from all that data quickly, and how are do you use this information? SI Foodware, the leading Microsoft Dynamics ERP add-on for the global Food & Beverage Industry con-tains Business Intelligence functionality named Food Management Dashboard. The dashboard offers a set of pre-defined KPI’s and re-ports especially for the Food & Beverage Industry. It empowers you to make the right decision in time. The result? Transparency, improved control of business processes, less risks and financial savings.
How do you know for certain that your current budget matches your sales and purchases exactly? And are you able to compare the actual production output and the consumption of raw materials and components with the planned quantities and standard sets? Im- portant issues that often need to be dealt with as soon as possible. But where are you going to start off from? The interface of the Food Management Dashboard makes it extremely easy to access the right data and interpret this the right way. It offers a click through setup for all KPI’s that starts from the main dashboard. The main dashboard offers an overview of the status of the 4 most important factors that determine the success of your business processes: Reliability, Costs, Flexibility and Profitability. Within a few clicks you will be able to see which processes are performing as planned and which ones deserve your attention.
Schouw Informatisering has specialists who, through an analysis, can determine together with you what information your organization needs. They are familiar with the food and beverage industry and know what key metrics are important for your organization. These valuesare then included into one or more models, such as sales or production. One of the main advantages of the Food Management Dashboard is that it requires no customization. The most important values of the Food & Beverage industry are pre-defined and incorporated in several standard models. These values are based on KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators), known from the Nor-ton and Kaplan Balanced Score Card model.
