CSB-System ERP Brochure

CSB-System – ERP Software Tailored to Your IndustryThe Business IT Solution for Your Entire Enterprise

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CSB-System – ERP Software Tailored to Your Industry The Business IT Solution for Your Entire Enterprise

Programmed for Your Success 4

Your Industry – Our CSB-System 4

The Business IT Solution That Grows With You 4

Fast Return on Investment 5

Investment Protection for Your Hardware and Process Periphery 5

Logistics and ERP in a Single System 5

We Know Your Industry 5

Our System for Your Success 6

The Business IT Solution for Your Entire Enterprise 6

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ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning 8

Master Data – Secure Your Success by Structuring Your Master Data 8

Procurement – The First Step in a Successful Business Cycle 8

Inventory – Balanced Goods and Information 9

Production – Smooth Processes With Optimal Resource Planning 10

Requirements Planning – A Secure Basis for Profit Maximization 10

Sales – Efficient Sales Organization Ensures Customer Satisfaction 11

Traceability – Transparent Products Pave Your Way to Success 12

Managing With Key Figures – Speeding up Your Decisions 12

Quality Management – Making Every Process a Success 13

Thinking in the Form of Processes 14

Keeping Track of the Big Picture 14


YOUR BENEFITS AT A GLANCE

Mapping of all industry standards

Optimally pre-defined processes

Integration of all business processes without island solutions

Fast implementation through pre-defined, industry-specific versions

Modular structure to create a complete business IT solution

Programmed for Your Success YOUR INDUSTRY – OUR CSB-SYSTEM

We know from experience that a business IT solution which meets the specific requirements of your company is the only solution to fulfil your expectations.You require industry experts who fully understand your processes and needs. CSB-System knows your industry. Our ERP software CSB businessware© maps 100% of all industry-specific standards.With our pre-defined processes you quickly realize competitive advantages. Our ERP system is tailored to the requirements of your industry and integrates all your business processes without any island solutions.Pre-defined, industry-specific versions help enable fast implementations.With CSB everywhere©, all functions can be made available on mobile end devices and on the internet without loss of program performance.

CSB-System is the key to your business success.

CSB-System combines in-depth industry know-how with cutting-edge software technology in its business IT solution for the following industries:

Food Chemicals Pharmaceuticals Retail Logistics Services

THE BUSINESS IT SOLUTION THAT GROWS WITH YOU

With its modular design, CSB businessware© can be extended to create a complete business IT solution. You are free to decide which functional areas you want to implement and when. It also makes no difference, whether you want to integrate a single process or a complete business area: our state-of-the-art software architecture guarantees complete integration of your functions. As the processes of innovative companies are subject to constant change, the CSB-System provides continuous support with its advantageous version policy, now and in future. The CSB-System grows with your company.


FAST RETURN ON INVESTMENT

With CSB businessware©, you optimize your business processes and achieve across-the-board cost savings positively affecting all areas of your business. You attain fast return on investment of your capital.

INVESTMENT PROTECTION FOR YOUR HARDWARE AND PROCESS PERIPHERY

The utilization of the CSB-System in your company is not dependent on any specifi c hardware manufacturers. Taking your company-specifi c hardware requirements into account, we incorporate your existing hardware including process peripherals into the CSB-System, modify it if necessary and tailor required hardware to your specifi c needs. This protects your existing IT infrastructure investments.

LOGISTICS AND ERP IN A SINGLE SYSTEM

CSB-System is one of very few vendors worldwide to directly integrate your entire logistics in its ERP solution CSB businessware©. Many international companies already witness the economic success of their IT infrastructure realized by this integration. Come and see for yourself! Schedule a meeting with us at one of our reference companies operating in your industry.

WE KNOW YOUR INDUSTRY

Goal-oriented consulting of our customers is of particular interest to CSB-System.In close cooperation with you, we defi ne your industry-specifi c requirements, analyze your business processes and develop a customized solution for optimizing your company. At CSB-System, we always provide you with a qualifi ed specialist for your project. Based on their academic training and their tested project experience with CSB-System, our people are familiar with the requirements of your industry down to the last detail. As industry experts, they understand your processes and requirements. CSB-System knows your industry.

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Our System for Your Success THE BUSINESS IT SOLUTION FOR YOUR ENTIRE ENTERPRISE

The CSB-System provides all the functionality required by your company. Enterprise Resource Planning works across all areas and enables controlled information interaction for your process and business organization in the areas of: Procurement Inventory Production Requirements Planning Sales Traceability Quality Management Finance and Accounting including Financial

and Asset Accounting, Cost and Performance Accounting as well as Reporting

Human Resources with Payroll and Time Management

The integration of all your business areas is a principle CSB-System places in the forefront in relation to all software developments. CSB-System provides integration of: Automated Data Capture (ADC with CSB-Rack®) Mobile Data Capture (MDC with M-ERP®) Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) with

Inventory Management Computer (IMC), Material Flow Computer (MFC), connections for scales, scanners, forklifts, warehouses, conveyors, labelling systems and silo systems

Manufacturing Execution System (MES) with equipment control and maintenance

Supply Chain Management (SCM) Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Business Intelligence (BI) Document Management System (DMS) Business Process Management (BPM)

We would be pleased to send you additional information on these topics.


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Additional applications for specifi c industries, e.g. hazardous materials management, special forms of procurement, food labelling (QUID), nutritional value calculation, recipe optimization and accounting systems for packaging material (DSD, ARA, etc.) optimize your integrated processes.

CSB-System fully covers all strategic, operational and technical areas of your business. Use our system for your success.

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ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning MASTER DATA – SECURE YOUR SUCCESS BY STRUCTURING YOUR MASTER DATA

In order to manage your master data, you require an ERP system that ensures unlimited transparency and quality of your data. The CSB-System allows for easy data entry, data maintenance and optimal data structures in combination with user-friendliness. For example, the different units used for supplying, storing, producing and delivering items can be mapped in the CSB-System under one item number. Supplier and customer contracts are centrally managed in Conditions Management. In this way, the system can directly manage any quantitative markups or reductions. Right from the start, the CSB-System ensures transparency and completeness of all IT-aided processes for your corporate success.

PROCUREMENT – THE FIRST STEP IN A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS CYCLE

Your company is dependent on the availability of all required operating, raw and auxiliary materials at the right time and location.Your CSB-System helps you optimize the procurement process in your company and make it cost efficient. The focus hereby is on procurement at optimal conditions regarding quality, traceability, quantity and price. In addition, the CSB-System captures all external infor-mation on the procurement market as well as all internal information from the areas of production and sales and makes them available online. Fully integrated order suggestions maximize your delivery performance and minimize your stocks. In addition, our integrated Vendor Valuation system effectively reduces your purchasing prices and optimizes the quality of delivered commodities. The procurement modules of the CSB-System form the starting point for your business success.


Mapping of all item units under one system number

Full management of all internal and external addresses

Consideration of all industry specifics

Flexible mapping of all contracts and agreements

Easy maintenance and high degree of user-friendliness

Full integration in your overall processes

Comprehensive planning modules for optimal orders

Integrated Vendor Valuation system

Transparent invoice control


INVENTORY – BALANCED GOODS AND INFORMATION

The supply role of the inventory affects your entire goods management process. This requires integrated warehousing which takes different storage concepts into account and which makes your products available at the optimal time and at the best possible quality. With the CSB-System, warehousing for your company becomes effi cient and extremely fl exible. Stocks are minimized and permanent communication between procurement, inventory, production and sales is optimized.Batch-exact inventory management ensures complete batch traceability.

The CSB-System also supports you during stocktaking. Using detailed inventory data, the system automatically prepares stocktaking processes and optimizes them. Data capture can be carried out using mobile devices with M-ERP® or a stationary CSB-Rack®.The logistics modules in the CSB-System allow you to integrate your entire equipment via pre-confi gured interfaces. Direct communication between machines and ERP system increases inventory process automation considerably while improving information quality and process reliability.With the CSB-System, your actual stocks and inventory information are balanced.


Batch-exact inventory management

Complete batch traceability

Fast and effi cient inventory processes

Cross-location stock management

Maximum degree of automation through connection of all equipment


PRODUCTION – SMOOTH PROCESSES WITH OPTIMAL RESOURCE PLANNING

Constant control and improvement of all production processes safeguards the competitiveness and sus-tainability of your company. CSB-System makes your production processes transparent and eliminates any island solutions. The system optimizes complex bills of materials and production procedures. It seamlessly integrates all production departments within your company in the overall automation concept. The planning modules in the CSB-System optimally match procurement, inventory and sales information and provide you with a detailed overview of production planning and control. This includes short, medium and long-term planning and automated data capture with CIM and MES. With the CSB-System, you achieve smooth production processes with optimal resource planning.

REQUIREMENTS PLANNING – A SECURE BASIS FOR PROFIT MAXIMIZATION

The right quantity at the right price and time from the right supplier for the right customer.This can be realized with the Requirements Planning module by CSB-System. In order to improve planning quality and to secure correctness of your warehouse stocks, the CSB-System includes procedures that automatically detect discrepancies and inform your employees via email, mobile phone message, fax or EDI. In addition, every employee can check stocks directly during order entry by using mobile end devices, and can report discrepancies online. Requirements planning becomes a central instrument of control for securing economic material flows. The system makes suggestions for optimal vendor-quantity-customer combinations, guaranteeing a secure basis for profit maximization.


Transparent bills of material

Integrated cost unit accounting to secure your economic success

Comprehensive planning modules for optimal resource utilization

Integration of all production areas for maximum degree of automation

Absolute reliability of your production processes

Optimal order quantities

Maximum delivery reliability

Reduced purchasing prices

Profit maximization through optimal order suggestions

Transparent calculation methods for successful traceability


SALES – EFFICIENT SALES ORGANIZATION ENSURES CUSTOMER SATISFACTION

A customer-oriented, powerful sales organization requires transparent and controllable sales processes. Your CSB-System offers effi cient sales organization with fast and economic offer generation, order entry, order processing, invoicing and evaluations, including a large variety of industry-specifi c functions.

Sales representatives have online access to all data from procurement, production, batch management, inventory, requirements planning, accounting, fi nan-ces, human resources and time management.Take advantage of the benefi ts that IT offers for sales and control your sales activities with the help of structured provisioning of information. In this way, you can improve customer retention and can tap new sales channels.


Transparent and controllable processes

Active sales promotion

Optimal sales channel support

Comprehensive accounting modules

Integrated route management

Large variety of picking and logistics solutions for all industries


TRACEABILITY – TRANSPARENT PRODUCTS PAVE YOUR WAY TO SUCCESS

To realize traceability, you have to know the entire history of your products. At any point in time, you need to be able to ascertain and fully proof when, where and by whom your goods were accepted, processed, stored, transported, consumed and disposed of. Your CSB-System performs this task, from raw material procurement across all processing steps and quality management to labelling of your products. It also includes your entire logistics with supply of your customers and partners to proof the whereabouts of your products. The CSB-System fully illustrates upstream and downstream traceability in a transparent fashion. The ERP software meets all national and international standards and guidelines.

By providing transparent product information, the CSB-System paves your way to success.

MANAGING WITH KEY FIGURES – SPEEDING UP YOUR DECISIONS

You require reliable and up-to-date information in order to quickly adjust to changing markets? The CSB-System makes your key business figures available at a glance: from corporate management to business areas like purchasing, production, sales, logistics, controlling and financial accounting. All crucial information for each area of responsibility is targeted and tailored to the receiver. Constant availability of up-to-date data enables continuous and systematic monitoring of business critical figures and provides the basis for speeding up decisions. The information is provided in standardized formats: cockpits, dashboards, detailed views and reports. Long-time experience and economic expertise form the basis of our comprehensive information concept. It can be used in individual business areas or throughout your entire company.

With the CSB-System, you manage your key figures and accelerate your decisions.


Product transparency

Compliance with due diligence

Legal certainty and risk limitation

Compliance with industry standards

Transparent illustration of upstream and downstream traceability

Consumer trust in your products

Your key business figures at a

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Fast decision-making with the help of pre-configured reports

Easy and intuitive use

Shorter decision-making through up-to-date data


QUALITY MANAGEMENT – MAKING EVERY PROCESS A SUCCESS

Constant quality assurance of your products is an integral part of your business to guarantee comprehensive and certifi ed quality management and secure traceability. Quality management within the CSB-System covers all business areas and is also integrated in your functional areas. Quality-related information from all business areas is seamlessly captured, evaluated and analyzed online in a single system, with the data being recorded at the point of origin.

Quality management as an interdepartmental function is part of your operational processes, ensuring a com-prehensive system that can be validated. This applies specifi cally to the areas of logistics and production. Quality management by CSB-System is the optimal tool for implementing all national and international regulations and for continuously optimizing your business processes.

Quality management by CSB-System makes each of your processes successful.


Complete integration of all business areas in one quality management system

Consideration of all national and international standards, regulations and laws

Meeting of all standards in line with ISO 22000, ISO 22005, DIN EN ISO 9001:2008, SQF, IFS, GLP, SDF, BRC etc.

Compliant to HACCP

Continuous process optimization in consideration of all quality parameters

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Thinking in the Form of Processes KEEPING TRACK OF THE BIG PICTURE

The requirements to be met by your company are constantly increasing. In order to secure a competitive advantage, your company must be able to react with flexibility and speed to any market, customer and technology changes. You can achieve this goal by utilizing the Business Process Management (BPM) module by CSB-System.BPM provides digital and visualizable mapping of all standard processes and procedures between your employees and departments. The goal of BPM is to realize permanent structuring of all work processes within your company in order to ensure optimal process results. Thereby, industry-specific, pre-defined core processes become a competitive advantage for your company. With Business Process Management you plan, organize and optimize your processes. It fully automates the entire information flow and makes processes transparent. This in turn facilitates transferring and processing of work orders. With BPM, you can process all documents and data in a business-oriented and controlled way. Business processes can be defined, which guide the end user step by step. By utilizing a graphical user interface for modelling, isolated business area examinations are merged to provide an overall company view.

It is also possible to implement interaction of individual processes. This allows you to optimally monitor and control sensitive processes. Bottlenecks and weak points are highlighted graphically. If events require it (automatic monitoring), messages are sent directly to the employees in charge via the integrated communication modules.

The CSB-System makes it easy for you to keep an overview of your company‘s processes.


Optimal planning, control and review of your processes

High degree of transparency of your value-added processes down to the last detail

Dynamic process examination and optimization

Clear process responsibilities with comprehensive automatic monitoring

Very fast familiarization of new employees with your business processes

Structured and controlled processing of all documents and data

Graphical visualization of bottlenecks and risks within your business processes


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SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS DESIGN

ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning Procurement Inventory Production Requirements Planning Sales Traceability Quality Management and Laboratory

Information System

PPS – Process Planning System

ADC – Automated Data Capture with CSB-Rack®

CIM – Computer Integrated Manufacturing

MES – Manufacturing Execution System Equipment Control Maintenance

SOFTWARE FOR BUSINESS ORGANIZATION

HR – Human Resources Time Management Payroll

AF – Accounting and Finance

SCM – Supply Chain Management

CRM – Customer Relationship Management

EDI – Electronic Data Interchange

BI – Business Intelligence

DMS – Document Management System

BPM – Business Process Management

SOFTWARE FOR MOBILE IN-HOUSE AND FIELD SOLUTIONS

M-ERP® – Full availability of all features of the ERP solution on mobile end devices and on the internet

FSM - Field Service Management Travel Expense Recording Processing of Activities and Orders Processing of Call and Service Reports Recording of Electronic Travel Log

with GPS Integration

Truck Management and Tracing with GPS Integration

Vehicle Route Planning with GPS Integration

Web Services for Integration of Business Applications

SERVICES

Business Process Consulting Performance Analysis and Creation of

IT Solution Concept Project Management Monitoring of Implementation Going Live Support

Training Training at CSB-College

Worldwide Technical Support Support (24/7)

HARDWARE WITH SOFTWARE MODULES FOR PROCESS ORGANIZATION CSB-Rack®

CSB-Vision-Meater®

CSB-Image-Meater®

IMC – Inventory Management Computer

MFC – Material Flow Computer

CSB Control Station Computer

Product Portfolio

Programmed for Your Success

The Business IT Solution for Your Entire Enterprise

Worldwide Headquarters: CSB-System AG An Fürthenrode 9-15 52511 Geilenkirchen, Germany Tel.: +49 2451 625-350 Fax: +49 2451 625-311 [email protected]

www.csb-system.com CSB-System is represented in more than 30 countries worldwide.

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