Save time and effort
Remove the difficulties in planning. With MeatPlan and FoodPlan, you only need to import your key data to quickly generate production plans. Create bills of material with hierarchies, move/split/amend orders and quickly balance demand without needing complicated spreadsheets.
Access your planning anywhere
MeatPlan and FoodPlan are accessible entirely in your browser. You can access forecasts, production plans and execution reports from any computer or tablet, even on the shop floor.
Customised to your business
Every business is different. We work with you to understand your specific planning requirements and to customise MeatPlan or FoodPlan to meet your needs. Reporting services are customised so that you have access to data to make the right planning decisions and can monitor your business's performance.
MeatPlan
MeatPlan is a breakdown production planning and execution service designed specifically for the Australian Meat Industry.
- Import key data sets (customer orders, stock on hand and inbound livestock) to generate baseline production requirements.
- Automate an optimised cut plan by setting standard yields and costs against your product range.
- Manage the forecast at both a primal and head level, as well as precise fallout/trim management, and match orders with demand.
- Create multiple forecasts from the same data sets and customize your forecast horizon: plan for 1 day, 1 week, 2 months or anywhere in between.
- Deal with exceptions: exception based management of orders vs raw material.
- Pause to restart the planning process at any stage, allowing for sign off for better accountability.
- Data hierarchy based on AUSMEAT Standards, allowing for easy import and matching of your own data.
- Edit, move and stock orders, receiving immediate feedback on the outcome.
- Able to integrate into any ERP, WMS, livestock or grading system.
- Complete trim management module to optimise fulfilment of trim demand.
- Perform downgrades, complete with downgrade cost, to reveal cost breakdown of your decisions.
- Export reports for management approval, including volume, cost of downgrades and service level.
- Export reports for on floor execution and planning room monitoring.
- Fully customisable reporting suite: view and export operational reports for operators, line leaders and production managers.
FoodPlan
FoodPlan is a production optimisation tool for assemble-to-sell food and beverage manufacturers.
- Generate a daily production plan, stock on hand forecast and raw material purchasing forecast based on incoming orders, stock on hand and manufacturing resources/constraints
- Constraints-based model that includes timing, material/labour/packaging costs and other supply chain constraints (i.e product life, and order to delivery lead times)
- Update stock on hand directly on the shop floor or inventory store via tablet-based interface, or import stock directly from your ERP/WMS
- Customisable bill of materials with parent child relationships for complete recipe control.
- Cost hierarchies that enable the user to store and edit the cost of a raw material, with flowthrough functionality to all recipes containing the raw material.
- Produce operational reports including production, pack off and recipes for operators, line leaders and production managers.
- Fully customisable reporting suite; including reports by resource.
- Financial metrics dashboards for recipe i.e. gross margin.
- Produce operational reports including production, pack off and recipes for operators, line leaders and production managers.
- Fully customisable reporting suite; including reports by resource.
- Financial metrics dashboards for all recipes i.e. gross margin, production overheads, assembly, packing and weighing costs.