Growing Commercial Bakeries Are Finding O2 Bakery ERP Software Is Exactly What They Need to Manage Growth

Working with process manufacturers, in this case commercial bakeries, we've heard more times than we are able to count the different ways bakeries struggle with processes while going through growth. There comes a time when manual operations and Excel spreadsheets can start to slow down the business.  Employees may be spending too much time entering data manually, which can also be error prone.  Reports can also become a problem area as they may have to be pieced together using data from different programs, only to find that the data is not completely accurate due to the lack of real-time information.

These are just a few of the problems commercial bakeries face during growth, and this is where an industry specific bakery ERP software system, such as O2 Bakery ERP really shines.  This commercial bakery software was built with the baking industry in mind, offering features such as:

• Formula Management & Security
• Lot Tracking
• Nutritional Calculations
• Inventory Forecasting
• Multiple Unit of Measure Calculations & Batch Sizing
• Certificate of Analysis Tracking (C of A)
• Capacity Resource Scheduling

Bakery management software provides many ways for growing companies to take control of their operations and gain the real-time, accurate information that can drive future growth.  If you find yourself looking for a new ERP software solution, be sure to look at O2 Bakery ERP since it was developed with you specific industry in mind.  For more information, visit www.evs-sw.com.

Migrating to O2 Chemical ERP Software In the Chemical Manufacturing Industry

If your chemical manufacturing business is currently operating on Sage 100 or Sage 200 ERP and have outgrown the ERP software, there is an established migration path to move to the industry-specific O2 Chemical ERP on Sage 500.  Moving up opens the door to a number of enhanced features addressing R&D and formula management, quality control, distribution and supply chain management to compliance reporting and accounting.  Some of the enhanced features found in this chemical manufacturing ERP software, include:

Research & Development: Formula management in chemical manufacturing can require specific functionality such as percentage-based formulas and chemical calculations such as percentage, solids, and VOC.  With O2 Chemical ERP software, your laboratory personnel will be empowered with industry leading tools which are completely integrated with the rest of the organization.

Regulatory: Reporting of hazardous chemicals is critical in chemical manufacturing.  With MSDS, SARA Title II and III reporting, O2 Chemical ERP will help you maintain all of your regulatory reporting data in one central location.

Costing: Whether you produce custom mixes or your ingredient prices are volatile, the O2 Chemical ERP software will help you better maintain product margins.

Quality Control: Quality control test are integral to the chemical manufacturing process, with O2 Chemical ERP you quality system can now be integrated with your ERP.

Real-time: O2 Chemical ERP software also offers O2 Mobile warehouse barcode software for ease and accuracy of data capture as well as machine integration with PLC's, both facilitating real-time data reporting for you.

To learn more about our chemical manufacturing software and how you can take advantage of the prebuilt migration tools, visit www.evs-sw.com.

Real-time Lot Tracking Helps Process Manufacturers Manage a Time Sensitive Distribution

As anyone in the process manufacturing industries, such as food or chemical manufacturing, know tracking lots and expiration dates is a critical component in warehouse distribution.  Real-time views of your inventory will allow you to increase visibility and accuracy of your entire warehouse and distribution operation.

Knowing specifically where your inventory is located within your organization is essential to effective inventory management.  Implementing a program such as a warehouse management system can help you stay on top of your inventory.  O2 Mobile Warehouse is a warehouse system that utilizes barcode software and handheld scanners to track inventory throughout your entire warehouse, making pallet tracking and bin movements as easy as a scan.

To learn how warehouse distribution software can help your business by visiting www.evs-sw.com.

Migrating to O2 Food ERP Software In the Food & Beverage Manufacturing Industry

As your business grows and becomes more dynamic, complex and specialized, so must your ERP software.  With a unique offering of food manufacturing specific solutions to encompass your entire enterprise from R&D/formula management, quality control, distribution and supply chain management to compliance reporting and accounting, O2 Food and Beverage ERP software is a great move.  Here are a few of the features you can expect:

Research & Development: R&D in food manufacturing can require specific functionality such as percentage-based recipes, nutritional calculations, allergen tracking, product costing, etc.  With O2 Food ERP software for Sage 500, your employees will be empowered with industry leading tools which are completely integrated with the rest of the organization.

Regulatory: Regulatory reporting is critical in food manufacturing.  With full lot recall capabilities for Bioterrorism compliance and nutritional labeling capabilities, O2 Food ERP software will help you maintain all of your regulatory reporting data in one central location.

Costing: Whether you produce custom blends or your ingredients are commodities with volatile prices, the O2 Food ERP will help you better manage and forecast costs to help you maintain product margins.

Quality Control: Quality plans are integral to the food manufacturing process, with O2 Food ERP, your quality system can now be integrated with your ERP.

Real-time:  In fast-paced food manufacturing, shop floor data entry is critical.  O2 Food ERP provides mobile warehouse bar coding for ease and accuracy of data capture as well as machine integration with PLC's, both facilitate real-time data reporting for you.

If you are currently using Sage 100 or Sage 200 ERP, you can take advantage of our prebuilt migration tools so your valuable data can move with you.  For more information on the food and beverage manufacturing software or Sage 500 ERP, visit www.evs-sw.com.

EVS Is Adding to Manufacturing ERP Software Product Offerings

As mentioned in a recent post, EVS is on the verge of making a big announcement.  While, I'm not able to give out the complete details quite yet, I can say that we will be adding to our ERP software product offerings.

This will be an exciting development as we're always looking for the best technology products to serve our manufacturing and distribution customer base.  So, once again, please be sure to check back here or on any of our social outlets for the official announcement.  It won't be long now! (Thankfully, because keeping a secret this good is hard work!)

For more information on the type of manufacturing ERP software products and services offered by EVS, visit www.evs-sw.com.

5 Ways a Warehouse Management Software System Can Help You

After years of working with many small/medium-sized manufacturing and distribution businesses, EVS has witnessed first hand how a warehouse management software system can positively impact your business.  An added bonus?  The benefits are far reaching and not just visible in the distribution department.  So, here are just a few of the ways a warehouse distribution software, such as O2 Mobile Warehouse can help your business.

1.  Real-time Inventory Views: This is a big one.  Any business can benefit from real-time inventory information.  Not only will it help your production planing, but it will help you fulfill orders on time.  Both situations translate into cost savings for your business.

2.  Increased Inventory Accuracy:  Businesses often don't realize the power of this benefit until they've began using a warehouse management system.  We've seen manufacturers find thousands of dollars of inventory they didn't know they had on hand due to poor manual inventory recording.  Other distributors have been able to utilize the Inventory Cycle Counting feature and eliminate the costly and time consuming year-end physical inventory counts.  Inventory accuracy is priceless when time and costs are concerned.

3.  Improved Speed of Receiving Department:  Using barcode software system, such as O2 Mobile Warehouse, will empower your warehouse personnel to perform all of the receiving functions with a coupe scans of a handheld barcode reader.  Inventory can be received, compared to the purchase order in your ERP software system, validated against the receiving rules you've defined and labels printed with any information you wish.

4.  Know Exactly Where Inventory Is Located:  Knowing specifically where your inventory is located within your organization is essential to effective inventory management.  For companies that manage lot tracked items and/or expiration dates of materials, this information becomes critical.  Again with O2 Mobile Warehouse, bin movements within a location is as simple as scanning a couple barcodes and your operation will be saving time.

5.  Sales Order Shipping/Picking: Sales order picking is a powerful and flexible function within O2 Mobile Warehouse.  The warehouse management function of the ERP software allows complex rules to determine what should be picked, where from, and how much.  O2 Mobile Warehouse will communicate the desired picks to your material handlers who will know exactly where in the warehouse the inventory resides.  If you track inventory on containers or pallets, material handlers can load a pallet, homogenous items, mixed items, mixed lots and stage the pallet for shipping.

For more information on O2 Mobile Warehouse or other products and services to help your manufacturing or distribution warehouse, visit www.evs-sw.com.

A Celebration of National Manufacturing Day

Today is the second annual National Manufacturing Day.  Many may not even realize that such a day exists, and I don't blame you.  Most of the news mentioning manufacturing is regarding the effects of the fluctuating economy on manufacturing, products recalls, and discussions on off-shoring.  Not always positive news.

Today is a time to honor those in all aspects of manufacturing for their contribution to our communities, to find ways to educate and encourage younger generations to pursue careers in the manufacturing industry, and to demonstrate the importance of this industry to the nation's financial well being.  

As software developers for the manufacturing and distribution industry, EVS sees first hand all of the hard work manufacturers do to stay innovative, competitive and successful in today's economy.  We strive to provide enterprise resource planning software and warehouse management software systems to improve efficiencies, provide real-time and accurate data, and overall process improvements.

Again, job well done to all of our friends in manufacturing.  Today is your day, but I hope it continues to extend far beyond the recognition of a single day. For more information on the ERP software products developed by EVS, visit www.evs-sw.com.