Food and Beverage
The Competitive Edge for Food and Beverage Industry Leaders
ASC Software’s innovative solutions help you increase your productivity and inventory accuracy while exceeding FDA mandates. ASCTrac® enables food and beverage manufacturers to track goods for quality, monitor expiration dates, and organize your warehouse to include multi-zone controls for frozen foods, cooler goods, dry goods, and chemicals. With true food-grade lot tracking, you can instantly handle recalls throughout your supply chain.
ASC solutions take into consideration that most food and beverage operations are process-based, so we’ve included variance costing for manufacturing. With its lean costing process and seamless connectivity to financial software, ASCTrac WMS was selected by Microsoft® as one of the best WMS systems in the food and beverage industry.
- Lot consumption and expiration date tracking of raw materials along with calculations for finished goods expiry
- Cold-chain inventory storage by zone; freezer, cooler, packaging, allergens, and wash-down areas
- QC holds, work order allocations, quantities available, expected production and QC release dates
- PLC and WCS interface apps for controlling flow meters, valves, A-frames, carousels, pick-to-light, AGVs and more
Flexible off-the-shelf solutions from ASC Software help solve food & beverage manufacturers' most complex challenges
- ASCTrac Warehouse Management System (WMS): full lot tracking of inventory using FDA-grade processes
- ASCTrac Manufacturing Execution and Planning System (MES/MRP): very extensive lot tracking, FDA-grade traceability
- Production Work Orders app: forward and reverse lot traceability of all raw materials, components and finished goods consumed/produced in a work order along with costing of inventory and labor
- Route & track Quality Control steps: with full audit log of all transactions
- Shop Floor app: routing/tracking of inventory and labor steps at individual work cells with complete costing
- Manufacturing Production Entry app: for use on the production line for all functions in a mobile environment
- Asset Tracking and Maintenance app: for re-usable containers, wash downs, preventive maintenance, etc.
- Silo, Fluid Tank, and Container Logic: product lot tracking through re-useable containers
- Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) apps: connectivity for ASN's, RFID, etc.
- Automation Connectivity apps: interfaces to WCS, PLCs, carousels, A-frames, pick-to-light, conveyors, label applicators, scales, metering systems, and more
Built-in features and benefits meet the needs of food & beverage manufacturers
- Lot and Encrypted Lot tracking: food/pharma grade, supports all FDA mandates and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
- Lot and Expiration Date Configurable Rules: food/pharma grade, FEFO and FIFO (LIFO if needed for certain customers)
- Complete tracking and costing of inventory and labor with lean accounting methods
- Multiple interface options for your financial and automation systems, including Microsoft Dynamics, Sage, SAP, Oracle, and more