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Ascent ERP for Food and Consumer Goods

Like most midsize consumer products or wholesale distribution companies today, your organization faces many challenges that characterize a volatile and maturing market. These include demanding retailers, a growing number of products, food and safety regulations with which you must comply, and competitors emerging from low-cost labour markets. To succeed, you must improve your operations efficiency, maintain customer satisfaction, increase supply chain and demand chain visibility, and meet regulatory requirements cost-effectively.

ASCENT FMCG ERP for Consumer Products solution is based on ASCENTS more than 10 years of experience in the high-volume consumer products industry. This comprehensive and flexible enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution includes support for industry best practices. With this ASCENT FMCG ERP solution, you get:

  • Comprehensive, integrated, business functionality to help you gain visibility across your business and streamline your core business processes – from marketing, sales, and service to procurement, planning, production, financial management, and business analytics
  • A flexible and scalable foundation for your business processes. An ERP solution that can be extended with pre-integrated customer relationship management and business intelligence functionality.
  • An intuitive interface and role-based navigation to improve user productivity and adoption

 

 
  Midsize consumer products and wholesale distribution companies seeking to improve operating efficiencies can choose an affordable, integrated   solution.ASCENT FMCG ERP for Consumer Products solution is designed for rapid implementation, adaptability, and fast
  return on investment.
 

This ASCENT FMCG ERP solution gives you:

  • Complete pre-configuration settings that let you run your software with minimal installation effort
  • Extensive reusable documentation that you can use for self-study, evaluation, and project team and end-user
    training
  • A clear implementation methodology based on a logical step-by-step process

Support Your Process Needs
Functionality in ASCENT FMCG ERP for Consumer Products supports key processes for your operations, from
procurement through production and from product sales to traceability and compliance (See the figure).

Optimize Project and Document Management

Visibility into and control over the product development process is vital for sustained revenue growth. With this ASCENT FMCG ERP solution, your company can plan, manage, and track product development with centralized project management tools. In addition, centralized document management with change management functionalities lets you share and trace data across the company or with production partners.

Improve Manufacturing

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Because this solution lets you automate and integrate your processes with visibility to materials movement, you can update production planning to forecasted demand as well as monitor material, capacity, and production resource availability. Support for activity-based accounting creates updated information about product profitability from which you can make decisions to manage lead times and inventory utilization.

Enhance Sales Processes


Created for consumer products and wholesale distribution companies, this solution streamlines and automates processes across the product and production lifecycles. Specifically, you can integrate key processes, such as those used to manage finances, purchasing, production, quality control, and demand or resale data. You can also intuitively respond to signals from a partner such as an order return or request for inventory. As a result, your sales team can quickly and accurately determine order status and pricing, check product availability, run rates, and track and manage invoices. This helps you reduce sales cycle time and ultimately increase revenue and customer service levels.

In addition, managing inventory levels while avoiding out-of-stock situations is a high priority. With this solution, you can synchronize inventory management with sales, customer service, and feedback from electronic data interchange from your channel partners. Support for yard management and ship notification scenarios provides increased availability of information and helps you quickly send data about materials and the materials themselves to their ultimate destination. Quality inspection at goods receipt enables verification by your warehouse workers to help ensure batch traceability across the supply chain.

Support End-to-End Operations


With this solution, you can integrate processes relating to sales, operations, production, and materials requirements planning to help ensure consolidated, synchronized, and coordinated demand and supply planning. And you gain a single view of the coordinated processes. In addition, optimized portfolio management enables better insight into product and customer profitability. At the same time, by synchronizing your sales and revenue planning with production planning, the solution enables you to optimize your assets and reduce inventories while meeting demand derived from usage information.

Enhance Profitability and Business Insight


With this ASCENT FMCG ERP solution, you can control profit drivers, tightly link strategic plans to operational performance, and enable a single analytical platform for your business. Analytic tools enable you to define financial targets, develop a realistic business plan, and monitor costs and revenue during execution. From a single source, you can also identify which products, technologies, customers, and processes will drive top-line growth and bottom-line earnings.

Benefit from Industry-Specific Functionality


This ASCENT FMCG ERP solution supports business processes specific to your industry and supports a phased implementation. It offers a safe approach to help you realize fast time to value, and it scales to support your business as it grows. You can implement this solution now and work with us, so that we can extend the functionality to address any additional requirements.

Fast-Start Program Accelerates Time to Value

For smaller midsize consumer products and warehouse distribution companies, the ASCENT FMCG ERP fast-start program provides a simplified process to evaluate, acquire, and implement a solution. The program offers innovative tools and methodologies to plan a solution online, receive an immediate cost estimate, and shorten implementation times.

Summary

ASCENT FMCG ERP for Consumer Products solution is a comprehensive enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution based on proven best practices. Designed for rapid Implementation at a predefined price, the software can help you realize a fast ROI to support increased sales and decreased costs.

 

Business Challenges

  • Ensure profitability in a highly competitive marketplace
  • Coordinate sales and ensure on-time delivery
  • Gain visibility into inventory and point-of-sale information across complex supply chains
  • Deliver innovative products, synchronized with promotions and merchandising opportunities


Key Features


  • Project and document management – Enable integrated, comprehensive product development processes
  • Sourcing and procurement – Automate and streamline procurement processes.
  • Manufacturing – Optimally plan and execute manufacturing processes Selling, delivery, and post sales support
    – Automate, and integrate sales processes with other processes
  • Comprehensive operational support – Help ensure consolidated demand and supply planning, maintain low
    inventory levels, and avoid out-of-stock situations
  • Enterprise management and support – Support critical business functions, including financials and analytics

Business Benefits

  • Improve efficiency with a business solution containing the functionality needed to support your processes
  • Minimize total cost of ownership as a result of the solution’s flexibility and scalability for implementing enterprise-wide changes and optimizing global
    deployment
  • Confidently grow your business with the help of proven ERP software from ASCENT
  • Improve time to value by leveraging tools and methodologies that help you get every facet of your business running quickly and smoothly