The food and beverage industry is remarkably diverse. Thousands of different products and many types of processes (including fresh, frozen, chilled, and long shelf-life goods) serve customers ranging from mega-retailers to small chains, independent stores, catering services, restaurants, and exporters.

Juggling all of these products, processes, and customers creates serious issues. You have to respond to the demands of retailers and customers, manage supply chain processes, and make sure delivery times and schedules are coordinated.

Microsoft Dynamics solutions offer a set of strong applications that deliver a powerful suite of technologies for food and beverage manufacturers. These integrated applications can be deployed quickly and inexpensively without complicated customizations and drawn-out implementation projects.

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• Benefits of Microsoft Dynamics solutions for food and beverage manufacturers
• Customer success stories
• Microsoft Dynamics products
• Learn more about Microsoft Dynamics solutions

Benefits of Microsoft Dynamics solutions for food and beverage manufacturers

Microsoft Dynamics solutions give you a flexible IT system, enabling you to meet and exceed your business requirements. Whether you build an RFID solution, customer relationship management (CRM) system, Demand Driven Supply Network (DDSN) solution, or a financial management solution, Microsoft Dynamics solutions can help your company:

• Meet retailer demands. Work with retailers to help solve their problems while you improve your operations, lower your costs, and increase your ability to service other customers. You can increase visibility into your manufacturing operations, improve customer service, and provide managers and sales personnel with fast access to the right information when they need it.



• Respond to consumer trends. Respond quickly to-or better yet, anticipate-consumer trends by being able to review current sales and market data, and then make accurate, real-time decisions. Efficiently integrate manufacturing, financials, and procurement to shorten product development and manufacturing times, and speed time-to-market. You can even speed the process with easy-to-use, cross-company collaboration tools.



• Improve supply chain operations. Quickly respond to changing demands by creating a transparent supply chain that helps you and your customers access relevant information-whether it's about product availability, prices, expiration dates, or promotions. Information gathered throughout the supply chain can help you realize your business goals, generate more profits, and determine where new business possibilities can be found.



• Monitor food safety. Implement the best practices required to support and automate key safety requirements such as HACCP and legislative compliance acts. You can enable the automatic tracking and tracing of raw materials and products at all stages of production, processing, and distribution. By doing so, you can also facilitate an automated recall process that can be completed in hours instead of days or weeks.

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Customer success stories

• Barlean's saves time while enriching the lives of millions with flaxseed oil
• Noyen and Sanpareil improve product traceability with shared ERP system
• Leading snack producer cuts costs and optimizes its supply chain with new demand planning tool
• See more customer stories.

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Microsoft Dynamics products
The following products can be used to help build solutions in food and beverage manufacturing:

• Microsoft Dynamics AX for manufacturing
• Microsoft Dynamics NAV for manufacturing
• Microsoft Dynamics GP for manufacturing

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Learn more about Microsoft Dynamics solutions
Learn more about how Microsoft Dynamics business software solutions can help you solve your business needs in the food and beverage manufacturing industry.

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• Find manufacturing solutions developed by Microsoft Certified Partners to meet the unique needs of your business or industry.

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