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Percentage Weight based Recipes for the food and beverage industry

Would you like to define and enter your product recipes into your ERP system using % weight values ? Does your current ERP solution force you to enter the recipe as basic quantity values,  because the system uses a traditional engineering based bill of material format?. Well ProcessForce, a process-oriented recipe-based ERP application provides you the flexibility […]

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What’s the business benefit of using batch properties?

Depending on your industry, business practices, and needs of regulations you may need to add and record characterstics or attributes (otherwise known as properties) to a specific batch record, for example:- Details of origin for caught fish and other seafoods Dimensions Results of quality control tests Active ingredient % for a drug By recording such […]

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Managing fixed batch size production processes

Across different industries there are many examples of fixed capacity batch size production for example:- Mixing Vessels for food preparation Aging Tanks for beverages Kilns for making bricks Non-continuous Ovens for bakeries Furnaces for melting metals These types of resource affect:- Process time for a manufacturing order Costing of resoMedia Libraryurces, fixed and variable overheads […]

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Do you have seasonal based recipes?

We’ve been in discussion with several bakeries over the last few months where they modify the recipe to manage seasonal adjustments of stabilizer to cater for products being produced during the summer and winter months. A ProcessForce solution would be to define two revisions of the same product, with different valid to and from dates. […]

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Top 10 ERP requirements for Process Manufacturers

If you’re a process manufacturer thinking of investing in a new business solution, due to your industry best practices and regulatory needs, you will have a list of critical requirements as listed below: Batch traceability – simple and easy to use forward and backward tracking to understand and answer all your batch related questions Batch […]

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The challenge of managing multiple production outputs

Depending on the production process or the materials being used or produced, from a single production order multiple products can be produced as part of the product process or at the end of the process. Industry examples include A single mould produces a left and a right hand part – Plastic Injection Moulding The extruded […]

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Manage your factory resources via Drag and Drop Scheduling

If you’re a make-to-order business, having full visibility of how your current order book consumes your existing capacity goes without saying, but understanding your available free capacity is just as important when you have to provide an accurate delivery date to the customer. But even if you’re a make-to-stock or make-to-forecast business, or a combination […]

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Batch Traceability – Looking for a needle in a haystack

We all hear the term Big Data and its loose definition of large volumes of data, and its related problems with data capture, storage, search, analysis and visualization to name but a few. But depending on the industry, product, customer and user, Big Data problems tend to be specific to you! If you produce products […]

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ProcessForce Interview

Adam Lebkowski and Martin Gore from CompuTec discussing ProcessForce manufacturing solution for SAP Business One, its target verticals, functional coverage, and go-to-market solutions.

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ProcessForce now available in 25 Languages

Utilizing CompuTec’s SaaS based Translator tool and integrating with Google’s Translate API, the ProcessForce User Interface (menus, forms, dropdown lists and system messages), is now available at https://www.computec.one/wp-admin/post-new.php# in the same 25 languages that are supported by SAP Business One. This simple but effective tool speeds up the activity of translating. From a partner perspective, […]

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