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Food and Beverage Manufacturing
Compliance. Control. Visibility. Traceability. Optimize your Food and Beverage manufacturing process end-to-end with the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform.
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Plex is a complete smart manufacturing platform solution for Food and Beverage Manufacturing companies, offering a path to smart manufacturing that gets you there FAST! Achieve value quickly with Plex's feature-rich, rapidly-deployable modular and full ERP options.
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What Sets Plex Apart: A Breadth and Depth of Capabilities Unmatched in the Industry
- Quick Time to Value ‐ Modular and Full ERP options
- Scalable and Rapidly Deployable
- Recognized as an industry leader by analysts
- First and Still the Best 100% Cloud Solution ‐ highest security rankings and uptime
- World Class Food Safety and Quality Management ‐ Including rapid and user-friendly lot trace for recall
- Batch oriented MES with detailed yield and cost reporting
- Plant Floor Automation ‐ Complete end-to-end solution with Plex/Rockwell
- Production Monitoring and Asset Performance Management (APM) make your OEE pain points visible and actionable
- Supply Chain Planning ‐ Advanced Requirements Planning plus Statistical Forecasting and Demand Planning with Machine Learning
- Built-in EDI and Integration
- Performance Benchmarking & Value Engineering
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Purpose-Built for Food and Beverage Manufacturers
The Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform aligns to modern food and beverage manufacturing needs, eliminating data and information silos, digitizing the enterprise, automating processes and data sharing, enabling tracking from anywhere over any device down to the shop floor, and producing actionable data for anyone in the business.
For food and beverage manufacturers, the core value of Plex is in our world class food safety and quality management system, along with our batch-capable and proven MES system for managing production batch execution and yield management. Add in our advanced supply chain planning, including sophisticated statistical and collaborative demand forecasting, distribution requirements planning, and advanced MRP, plus the power of automation integration to MES from Plex and Rockwell, and mobile solutions for any device. All delivered securely and rapidly from the cloud, with modular solutions that not only solve critical business problems today with quick time to value, but also serve as the platform for the future to build and grow your food manufacturing business.
Designed to address your specific needs:
Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform Features & Benefits
Batch oriented MES with detailed yield and cost reporting
- Model your expected yield losses by component and operation, and report on actual yield performance in pounds, actual labor efficiency, and actual production cost vs standard.
- Optimally schedule your batches in series or in parallel across multiple workcenters with varying capacities.
- Automatically schedule pre-process/prep operations tied to the specific batches and batch sizes that you’re running.
- Enforce in-process quality control plans to ensure proper stock rotation of perishable products.
- Integrate with your weigh scales, use configurable container and pallet labeling, and more.
- Plex Mobile provides intuitive, role-specific and interconnected access that simplifies manufacturing employees’ jobs and provides real-time connectivity to the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform from anywhere, at any time, and on any device.
Automate, Orchestrate, and Understand your Plant Floor
- Connect to the plant edge to control information flow and processes adding efficiency, saving cost, and eliminating manual errors.
- Connect the plant floor to systems to digitally track production and provide real-time actionable information and operational KPIs ‐ without the hassle and complexity of proprietary hardware or customized software.
- Automate data capture and processes to add increased levels of control, gain real-time machine status insights, accurately record production, improve traceability, and execute processes like job setup and lineside labeling with Plex A&O.
- Prevent and prevent downtime with Asset Performance Management (APM) which helps zero in on and measure asset performance and machine health.
- Extend your capabilities using low-code application building to create custom workflows, content specific visualizations, and solutions that meet localized needs and requirements.
- Seamlessly connect to machines and access the real-time operational KPIs you need to take control of your production performance with Production Monitoring.
World Class Food Safety & Quality Management
- Execute quality checks on any device and see results on a fully digital, single source of the truth.
- QC capabilities cover all functional areas from receiving through production (including both process and product quality) and finished goods.
- Reduce the time responding to mock or actual recalls with powerful Lot Track and Trace, tracing from source to destination or vice versa and showing trace content at all destinations.
- See all customers who have received non-conforming lots and inventory at any stage of production that is affected.
- Handle allergen and country of origin tracking, SPC & Problem Control, and Supplier Quality Management.
- Automate checksheets to collect data from PLCs.
- See quick links to maintenance work requests (which ties into our maintenance system), gauges and tooling, attachments, and Quality and HACCP checks within the platform.
Supply Chain Planning – Advanced Requirements Planning plus Statistical Forecasting and Demand Planning with Machine Learning
- Connect the top floor with the plant floor and suppliers with customers in a closed-loop planning process.
- Leverage sophisticated statistical algorithms to forecast demand based on historical sales data, external feeds like point of sale information,
- Make collaborative forecast adjustments to reflect information on new programs, customers, products, promos, etc.
- Get help with distribution requirements planning in a multi-site network.
- Explode material requirements and plan production orders against a rough cut capacity plan to dynamically calculate reorder points and other planning parameters.
- Build plans that can simultaneously lower costs while improving schedule attainment and customer on-time deliveries and satisfaction.
Flexible Deployment Options
- Plex solutions are purpose built with flexibility in mind, enabling real-time integration and bi-directional communication that must co-exist in a hybrid IT environment.
- Cloud-based architecture coupled with an open integration layer and a scalable functionality, makes Plex an ideal choice for many enterprise manufacturers.
- You have options:
Built-in EDI and Integrations
- EDI
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Plex has a robust library of 18 off-the-shelf documents and 112 Food industry trading partners
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EDI mapping and processing occurs directly in Plex ERP, with comprehensive error checking
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Plex's EDI solution is quick to get started, making it Cost Effective and providing better value and integration than web EDI providers.
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- API Library
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Allows you to integrate to external systems as needed for specialized functions such as Nutritional Labelling, Trade Promotion Management, Transportation Management
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Integrate MES, QMS, and Other Modules to any ERP (SAP, Dynamics, other) and to Plant Floor Process Control Systems
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