Industry

Industrial information systems for the food industry: recipes and traceability

Recipes, variable raw materials, shelf lives, batch traceability: the food industry has specific needs that tools must respect.

Food production line

The context

The food industry works with living raw materials, short shelf lives and stringent food safety requirements.

Recipes, specifications, labelling, planning and batch traceability must be consistent from one end of the chain to the other.

IT challenges in the food industry

The topics that come up most often in our discussions with manufacturers in the sector.

Recipe management

Manage formulations, specifications and labelling in a single repository.

Planning

Schedule production while taking account of cleaning, allergen and shelf-life constraints.

Line performance

Monitor production and stoppages to improve yield.

The CNEXT expertise involved

We support food industry manufacturers with PLM (recipes and specifications), ERP, MES (traceability, production monitoring) and APS.

Our consultants provide consulting, business-side project assistance (AMOA), integration and application maintenance and training.

The role of each building block

  • PLM: product definition, bills of materials, changes and configuration.
  • ERP: purchasing, inventory, manufacturing orders, costs and business management.
  • MES: production execution and traceability, line quality and performance.
  • APS: constraint-based planning and scheduling, equipment connectivity.

Example assignments

  • Recipe- and specification-oriented PLM
  • ERP and batch traceability
  • MES and production monitoring
  • Constraint-based planning (APS)

Our approach

We start from the constraints of your lines and products: recipes, allergens, cleaning, shelf lives. We make sure that traceability is recorded as close to production as possible, without adding to operators’ workload.

Every assignment begins with understanding your processes and the constraints of the food industry. We then propose a realistic roadmap and support you as needed: one-off expertise, project support or reinforcement of your teams and those of your integrator. Our consultants combine business and technical expertise and are proficient in the leading solutions on the market.

They trust us

Some of the clients in the sector our consultants have worked with.

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Frequently asked questions

Is PLM relevant to the food industry?

Yes: a recipe-oriented PLM centralises formulations, specifications and labelling data, and makes new product launches more reliable.

Can you improve our traceability?

Yes, by linking ERP and MES to record the batches consumed and produced at each stage.

Do you work across multiple production sites?

Yes. We harmonise practices across sites while respecting their specific characteristics.

A PLM, ERP, MES or EAM project? Let’s talk.

Speak with an expert to scope your needs, with no obligation.

contact@cnext-consulting.fr
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CS20001, 95015 Cergy-Pontoise Cedex