Food Processing
Herbst Food Processing:
Herbst Insight is a business management solution covering a huge range of departments and functions within your Food Processing company. At its core, it is an accounts and stock management solution, expanding to include industry specific needs. The system is modular, so you only pay for what will benefit your company.
Customised IT Solutions is currently working with some of the big names in Agri Food (Quinn’s of Boltinglass) and Food Processing (Stafford’s Bakery). We, in conjunction with Herbst, are working with these companies to develop more, and more, solutions to the unique challenges within those industries. We can now use that industry specific knowledge to solve the software challenges facing your company today.
Accounts
- Nominal ledger – Customisable dashboards in all ledgers
- Pivot Views – Pivot and summarise large amounts of information
- History – Complete access to history for identifying trends
- Drill down queries to original documents
- Customised Pricing – Pricing can be altered depending on any number of criteria, including, but not limited to: Sale; Customer; Multi-item purchase; Amount spent; Locality etc. These can be further altered to apply the reduction in percentage, amount (eg 5 euro), or any other criteria you may want to apply.
HRM, CRM, Payroll, Budgeting and Marketing
- Time and Attendance
- Budgets and Targets:
- Credit Control: Restrict overdue creditors. Adjustable administration rights allow managers to override this restriction.
- Add interest to overdue credit accounts.
- Direct SMS: send mass SMS messages to all, or a selected few, of your customers to inform them of a sale, overdue bill, special offer or early warning for overdue credit.
- Customisable reports show predicted vs actual values.
- Set metrics: eg: quantity, profit margin, value, etc.
Stock Control
- Kiosk
- Multiple Units of Measure: Single items can have multiple units of measure. Eg, bags of grain could be measured in 25kg bags, pallets, kilograms etc. These are all customisable to your own requirements.
- Batch Management: Farm to Fork traceability.
- Use existing batch numbers or create new ones
- ‘First in first out’ batch allocation approach
- Track ingredients used in end products
- Batch recall reports and letters
- Manage inspection dates
- Control dispatch based on expiration dates
- Select and manage stock by batch
- Multiple batch numbers supported on document line level
- Batch recall – No one wants to think they will ever have to issue a batch recall, but if it does happen, you want it to be as painless as possible. For you, and for the customer.
- Bill of Materials: Take items from all over your stock list, and merge them into one new item. This could be as simple as selling 2 separate items as a pair, with a unique price, or as complex as a recipe, or constructed product. Herbst Agri One can merge those items seamlessly, and with ease.
Work Orders: Product assemblies, sub assemblies schedule and plan. ideal for stock management. These can be used to get a much better idea of true costing. - Back to Back Ordering: Convert purchase orders directly to sales orders in the event that your stock goes directly from supplier to customer.
- Point of Sale: Run your point of sale information directly into the stock management system and have access to live stock levels.
- Kiosk: Take in stock, manage orders, and stock locations. Compatible with bar-code scanners, and other stock related devices.
- Assembly Manufacturing
- Schedule work orders.
Distribution:
- Handhelds:
- Proof of delivery (POD): always have digital records and signatures to protect your business.
Geographic Information System (GIS): Delivering into rural areas can be tricky, especially in large vechicles. With a GIS you can mark customer sites by geographic coordinates, rather than address, giving a much more accurate location. Drivers can also mark their current location as a site. This is particularly helpful if the customer address and delivery site are different. - Create new orders, tickets, customers etc. while in the field. The handheld can be used as a portable CRM.
- Handhelds show live data to the office user, letting them see the bigger picture of how business is being done.
- Back to back haulage orders
- Zone, radial miles, depots, and multiple client sites
- Reports by haulier and driver
- Tracks waiting time and minimum load
- Automated self-billing reports
- Compare all your hauliers with one another
- Automatically apply additional haulage charges
- Assign a default haulier to customers
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