Implementing a complete enterprise-wide solution can be costly and seem overwhelming. CIBER has over one hundred customers in the food and beverage industry and we recognize the demand for a more affordable Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution that can be implemented faster than a traditional implementation. CIBER created the Principle Express Pack™ (PEP), an affordable, adaptable, and rapid solution to reduce these concerns. This solution provides the enterprise solution foundation, but allows you to grow and add applications as your business grows.
Leveraging CIBER’s expertise of implementing business solutions for many food and beverage companies, PEP provides you with the enterprise tools and functionality as well as the added support of an industry expert’s perspective. With PEP, CIBER’s bundled food and beverage enterprise solution, you will experience lower total cost of ownership for your project, and you will realize business value faster.
CIBER’s PEP is a unique solution that bundles together:
- Hardware
- Software
- Implementation Services
- Industry-Specific Pre-Configurations
- Industry Best Practices
What’s Included with PEP?
PEP is a bundled solution that delivers the solid foundation of an enterprise system. We started with Oracle’s JD Edwards solution, a Tier One world-class software package, which is already a leading food and beverage industry offering. PEP bundles together hardware, software and implementation services with CIBER’s Food and Beverage industry pack. This industry pack leverages our food and beverage expertise and industry best practices to provide the customizations that are typically required within the food and beverage industry, as well as unique pre-configurations. PEP can be implemented globally, offering multi-language, currency and localizations.
PEP’s food and beverage functionality includes:
- Traceability from field to store
- Grower accounting and contracts
- Harvest and field management
- Field-packed item receiving and/or weigh tag receiving
- Tag printing
- Grower charges and deductions
- Pay on proceeds of sale and/or receipt
- Dual units of measure
- Grower settlement/liquidation
- Advanced allocation of crop based on end use
- Complex pricing, including quality-based pricing
- Recall management
- Country of origin tracking
This enterprise solution is robust and handles your entire business, including:
- Financials (General Ledger, AP, AR, Cost accounting)
- Procurement
- Sales order and pricing management
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Supply Chain Management
- SKU/Product history visibility
- Value-added processing
- Quality Assurance
- Competitive Data Security
With PEP, you may add optimizations to further refine and leverage your investment. Pre-packaged optimizations that you may want to choose from include:
- Mobile Field Management
- Truck scheduling
- Business Intelligence (BI) dashboards
- RFID tags
- HR/Payroll, time tracking
- Plant and equipment maintenance
- Advanced transportation management
- Advanced warehousing
A Unique Approach
With PEP, you can implement ERP functionality without trying to become software implementation experts – enabling you to focus on your business during the implementation. PEP is unique to the market since it provides a complete bundle of industry functionality and configurations that are pre-tested with the standard JD Edwards solution before it’s delivered to you. This jumpstarts your project and reduces the resource and monetary investment required before going live.
Why CIBER
By partnering with CIBER to help you implement the JD Edwards solution, you can reduce your risk since you won’t have to worry about your partner’s long-term viability. CIBER combines food and beverage industry expertise, software knowledge, and implementation experience to deliver a solution that enables you to realize business value faster.
You are facing many challenges in this industry: greater regulatory requirements, increasing costs, and increased consumer awareness of food safety issues. Consumer demand has driven production of ready-to-eat/ready-to-cook products, changing business models from simple pack-and-ship operations to value-added processing.
CIBER provides the services to manage these challenges, allowing you to focus on what you do best. We not only have the software expertise, but the industry expertise to support your business. CIBER’s Principle Express Pack is an example of how we are unique where you need us to be.
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