Food & Drink

Industry Expertise

Manufacture and Distribution of fast moving consumer goods demands high performance from a business management solution. The constant pressure on margins from the major retailers forces successful suppliers to be, operationally, as lean as possible whilst having to maintain a constant view of your overall profitability on a daily basis so that customers and suppliers can be managed effectively.

In the past the necessity to link together the accounts team with supply-chain, sales, purchasing and other 3rd party systems to gain big business benefits was exactly that – just for big businesses. Thankfully things have changed a great deal and modern systems designed specifically for small and medium sized companies are able to provide very real and tangible benefits to your business within a very realistic budget for an SME.

Sapphire and the food & drink industry:

- Download the Mackies of Scotland case study

- Read about Sunraysia and Sapphire

- Read about the School Foods Trust and Sapphire

- Download the Hakkasan case study

Areas where Sapphire's expertise can support companies operating in the Food & Drink sector includes:

Full EDI Integration - automatically process orders, invoices and advanced shipping notices for all of the major retailers and 3rd party warehouses

Superb price discount functionality - automatically calculates any discounts due

Promotions, special prices, volume discounts and more - see the "real" profit per order line

Shelf Life Visibility - automated alerts and reports notify when products are approaching best before and expiry dates

Full stock control, product alternatives and back-ordering functions - have control of all stock in real-time, whenever you need it

Traceability - full batch tracking to component level allowing you to drastically minimise the impact and cost of product recalls

Track supplier price variations - alerts and workflow let you know when ingredient prices change, ensuring that your margins are always protected and the necessary steps taken

If you are interested in seeing any of our product and services in action, why not check our events section for further information?

For more information, please contact us.