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CloudSuite Food & BeverageThe digital platform for food and beverage manufacturers
Your technology roadmap to enable digital transformationOld, heavily modified ERP systems that were implemented years, often
decades ago, can no longer support the complex demands of the food
and beverage industry. Keeping current isn’t just smart—it’s profitable.
From cloud computing and collaborative technologies to mobility and
analytics, technology holds the key to competitive advantage and growth.
To remain relevant to the market and responsive to customer expectations,
you need a roadmap to enable digital transformation.
CONTENTS
3 Driving forces behind
the disruption
6 Right for today,
ready for tomorrow
7 End-to-end capabilities
8 Take a closer look
10 Albertsons Companies
11 The platform for your
future-proof digitally
driven organization
12 Reliability you can trust
13 Transform your business
with Infor CloudSuite
Food & Beverage
Innovation & transparency Innovation is fundamental for the food industry
as consumers are continually looking for new
products to try. But today, they also have clear
expectations that products are fresher and
ingredient statements simpler. This requires a new
level of transparency, as customers now want
even more information about a product and its
origin than what you are required to provide. How
we communicate, educate, and market requires a
different approach, and that includes embracing
digital marketing and social media both
for customers and consumers.
Quality & compliance The constant push to innovate adds additional
pressure to already complex compliance issues.
New varieties, flavors, ingredients, and packaging
are just some of the areas where manufacturers
explore niche opportunities, with the
understanding that in their market, differentiation
is key to success. The resulting proliferation in
SKUs, however, directly correlates with labelling
complexity. A new list of items means a new
list of potential errors. Compounding this, few
industries must deal with regulations as complex
as those of the F&B industry, including increasing
environmental and sustainability initiatives that not
only are tied to government regulations, but can
also be central to a company’s specific needs
and aspirations.
Employee optimization The industry is struggling with a new level of
employee engagement and optimization. The skill
set required in the modern, automated food and
beverage plant is much different than in the past.
This makes defining, recruiting, and retaining
employees more challenging. The industry faces
additional gaps as retiring baby boomers take
“tribal knowledge” with them, and Millennial
workers expect consumer-like user interfaces
and self-service features in their technology,
and place high value on collaboration.
Driving forces behind the disruption To understand why it’s important to evolve and utilize modern technology to transform your business, it is helpful to discuss the business drivers
facing food and beverage manufacturers today. While many of the high-level issues may seem like the same challenges the industry has been
fighting for years, the specifics have evolved—requiring you to take a fresh look at your business and core competencies in order to determine
the best path for the future.
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Margin pressures Many manufacturers operate on very tight
margins; just small changes in seasonal supply
and/or pricing can undermine your business.
Customers are expecting faster response times
with near-flawless order fill rates. With so many
products and changing demand, trying to analyze
and rationalize all these products/SKUs can be
a bit overwhelming, or frankly impossible to
do manually.
Channel progression What does the future preferred channel to market
look like? Brick-and-mortar locations, including
mass market retailers and warehouse clubs, are
expanding their offers—putting more business
pressures on manufacturers. Does this mean
you have to partner closer with your retail and
distribution partners? Do you need to provide
e-commerce? Whether and how to transform
business models, specifically with regard to these
channels to market, are big decisions companies
will need to make.
Driving forces behind the disruption (cont’d)
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Cloud technology offers the only platform that can provide the speed, scalability, global reach, and agility required by businesses seeking to embrace innovation.
To succeed, you need to reposition the cloud within your organization, making it the fundamental element of your competitive strategy and embrace new methods of technical operations.
Source: Accenture, Forging an Operational Link to Cloud Innovation, 2018
Right for today, ready for tomorrowInfor® CloudSuite Food & Beverage gives your business a modern digital platform to enable future growth. Less hassle, more value,
and true business agility—that’s the bottom line. CloudSuite™ Food & Beverage can help you:
Extend ■ Take advantage of extension solutions
that integrate with existing systems and
increase the value of your technology.
■ Easily connect to existing third-party
hubs, such as SAP or Oracle, with
pre-built integrations.
■ Integrate relevant data, KPIs, and
reports to get a comprehensive view
of your business.
■ Extend the capabilities of your solutions
with a growing number of mobile-
enabled offerings.
Modernize ■ Get a clearly defined project scope
and complete program for moving to
a modernized platform.
■ Speed deployment with implementation
accelerators and pre-built industry
platforms.
■ Reduce uncertainty with transparent
pricing, SaaS-based, per-user
per-month.
■ Scale up or down to meet
changing needs.
■ Get supports for hybrid deployments,
including Infor and third-party solutions.
Accelerate ■ Keep your technology up-to-date
and performing at optimal levels
with automatic upgrades.
■ Get comprehensive, industry-driven
suites that deliver that capabilities
you need, right out of the box.
■ Provide a modernized, consistent user
interface across all of your applications.
■ Increase response times and
productivity with dynamic workflows.
■ Improve decision-making with
embedded, pervasive industry analytics.
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End-to-end capabilitiesCloudSuite Food & Beverage gives you end-to-end
capabilities—fully integrated because that’s the way
software should be, delivered in the cloud to give you
ultimate security and flexibility, and infused with deep
industry-specific functionality so you can say good-bye
to costly and limiting customizations.
Financial Management
Purchasing
DemandPlanning
Product LifecyleManagement
Manufacturing& Scheduling
Sales OrderManagement
Quality& Compliance
Asset Management Technology
IntegrationMobility
WorkflowAlerts
WarehouseManagement
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Financial management Increase your financial insight with complete
visibility and compliance across your
business, whether you are a global business
with dozens of sites, or you operate in a
single country or region with one site.
Warehouse management Get the capabilities you need to automate
common processes in the warehouse and
on the production floor, ranging from goods
receiving, pick & pack, dispatch, inventory
transfers, physical inventory counts, and
manufacturing order reporting.
Sales order management Maximize your global sales through a
sophisticated sales order management
system that serves as the hub for your
customer and pricing information. You’ll
be able to enter orders more quickly and
accurately, easily manage EDI orders as
well as intense order volumes in tele-sales
environments. Standing order templates,
buying patterns, assortment control, and
advanced global capable-to-promise
ensures rapid and faultless order entry.
Purchasing Make intelligent purchasing decisions
with access to a demand dashboard that
has all the information you need right at
your fingertips, including color-coded
notifications for problems and exceptions.
You’ll be able to plan for seasonal supply,
manage the purchase of both stock and
non-stock products, special, and rush
orders. With both local and centralized
purchasing, you also have the flexibility to
manage purchases more cost-effectively.
Manufacturing and scheduling The manufacturing and scheduling tools
in CloudSuite Food & Beverage allow you
to schedule production orders to minimize
downtime, convert formulas into production
recipes, and effectively manage variances
and yield.
Demand planning Improve delivery performance, reduce
excess finished goods inventory, and avoid
product obsolescence. With automated
forecasting that uses mathematical
forecasting models, you can create an
unlimited number of forecasting methods. In
addition, planners can track all promotional
activity to monitor progress and adjust
forecasted demand, as required.
Take a closer lookCloudSuite Food & Beverage has all the right ingredients to manage your complex operations, financial, and compliance requirements. This
complete, yet flexible solution offers deep, proven, end-to-end capabilities for all your critical processes so you can focus on quality, growth,
and profitability.
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Take a closer look (cont’d)
Quality and compliance Ensure that the sourcing and production
of food products safely meet national and
international reporting and compliance
requirements—including ingredient
and nutritional declarations. To assist in
rapid recall situations, powerful search
capabilities enable you to quickly trace
backwards from end products to identify
potentially contaminated raw material lots,
or forwards to determine the potential
consequences of product issues.
Asset management Integrate the planned maintenance with the
with the production planning and execution
activities. Equipment and plant maintenance
can then ensure that maintenance will occur
at the right time, maintaining an optimum
level of production efficiency required.
Product lifecycle management Streamline the development of new
products, speeding time-to-market,
improving quality, and reducing
development costs. In addition,
development of new products is
supported by strong formulation
capabilities, rolling up characteristics
and cost from ingredient levels through
intermediates to final products.
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Albertsons Companies
Infor helps Albertsons Companies modernize US manufacturing plantsInfor CloudSuite Food & Beverage will provide Albertsons Companies a standard
solution to support milk, bread, and grocery manufacturing plants across the
company, while also integrating with the technology the company had to support
its sales, production, finance, and inventory operations. “With manufacturing
plants across the country producing a variety of products, we needed a solution
that would not require customization. We appreciate Infor’s partnership and ability
to address the complexities of unifying our technology system.”
Rucha Nanavati
Group Vice President, IT
Albertsons Companies
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The platform for your future-proof digitally driven organizationInfor Operating Service (OS) serves as the unifying foundation for the entire CloudSuite ecosystem, providing a platform for your own digital
transformation, in whatever form it may take. Its focus is on delivering technology that goes beyond enabling business—to driving it, putting
the user at the center of every experience. The result is a connected, intelligent network that automates, anticipates, predicts, and informs
your stakeholders in everything they do.
Role and user productivity
■ HTML5, responsive design
■ Anytime, anywhere access
■ Social and business collaboration
■ Contextual navigation
■ Mobile enablement
Cloud computing architecture
■ In-memory, multi-tier execution
■ Multi-tenant framework
■ Homogeneous object model
■ Action requests and
process automation
Unified applications
■ Embedded analytics
■ Embedded security
■ Pervasive auditing
■ Effective dated transactions
Harness the power of Infor OS
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Reliability you can trustWith CloudSuite Food & Beverage, you get guaranteed levels of server availability and system up-time that are both difficult and costly to replicate
with internal resources. Leave the hardware, licenses, and upgrades to us.
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High-performance standards
■ 99.5% guaranteed server availability, 24/7/365 (99.9% historically)
■ Service level agreements covering application uptime; strong business
continuity measures
■ Architecture designed to help support unexpected spikes in demand
■ Secure connectivity with encrypted internet traffic and server access
Disaster recovery strategy
■ Immediate response to outages, threats, and other incidents
■ Daily backups and data replication with a minimum of 14 days’ retention
■ Off-site data centers containing redundant energy, networking, and hardware
that include backup generators, UPS, PDUs, HVAC, firewalls, load balancers,
N++ server farms, clustered servers and storage, and double parity RAID
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Transform your business with Infor CloudSuite Food & BeverageCloudSuite Food & Beverage can help open up a world of opportunity for your
business and make it easier and more cost-effective to take advantage of a broad
range of innovative technologies, from high-value extension applications to industry-
driven solutions. Don’t miss this chance to learn how CloudSuite Food & Beverage can
help dramatically simplify your IT infrastructure, reduce your total cost of ownership,
and help you build a flexible, scalable engine for your future-proof digitally
driven organization.
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