Sage PFW for Consumer Packaged Goods


  • Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies must react quickly to trends and changes in consumer buying habits while managing costs and maximizing profitability. Do you have the tools necessary to succeed in today’s competitive environment? Sage PFW is an ERP software system specifically built for CPG manufacturers with comprehensive manufacturing and multinational financial management capabilities. It also offers a wide variety of other features and capabilities, all integrated to work together seamlessly. You can use Sage PFW to automate manufacturing, integrate sales with customer resource management (CRM), improve human resources with an integrated human resource management system (HRMS), and manage all of your financials, from standard accounting to multicurrency and multicompany requirements frequently needed in an international marketplace.

    From its earliest versions to the current release, Sage PFW ERP has been recognized as the industry standard for helping customers succeed with technical completeness and functional richness. Sage PFW is designed to help you respond to an increasingly competitive marketplace while managing customer requirements, improving margins and cash flow, handling increased governmental regulation, supporting faster order turnaround, and maximizing efficiencies.

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  • Because Sage PFW ERP reflects over 20 years of embedded industry expertise in helping our customers succeed, it is widely recognized as the industry standard for process manufacturers.

    General Highlights
    The following highlights some of the benefits to using Sage PFW that can impact your ability to gain a competitive edge:

    • Formula management with intermediates support (multi-level)
    • Handling of co- and by-products
    • Raw material specifications
    • R&D support with formula optimization
    • Automated formula revision tracking
    • Regulatory compliance
    • Lot/Bin/SSCC tracking
    • Full forward and backward traceability
    • Multiple lot picking strategies with automation
    • Comprehensive inventory management
    • Quarantine and expiration date awareness
    • Robust quality control
    • Enterprisewide planning and budgeting
    • Streamlined order entry and support for complex price policies
    • Yield optimization
    • Electronic Data Interexchange (EDI)
    • Material Requirement Planning
    • Flexible batch control and sizing
    • Support for multi-level end-time kitting and packing
    • Advanced cost estimation and roll-up capabilities
    • Objective-driven formulation development

    Protection of Brand Equity
    In today's markets, where brand choice is increasing while brand loyalty is decreasing, it is critical that CPG manufacturers maintain brand expectations of product quality. Sage PFW software ensures the maintenance of high product quality standards using powerful tools, such as:

    • Powerful computerized formulation laboratory
    • Comparative physical properties analysis
    • Comprehensive vendor quality analysis
    • Multiple lot tracking methodologies
    • Quarantine and expiration date control
    • Complete QC data history maintenance

    Rapid Response to Competitive Challenges
    Sage PFW is specifically designed to allow you not only to be faster and more accurate in operations but also to be able to react flexibly to customer needs.

    • "One-stop" order entry providing same-screen access to:
      • Customer history
      • Contract data
      • Custom pricing tables
      • Production data
      • Inventory data
      • Substitution data
    • Advanced material planning features
      • Material shortage analysis wizard
      • Seven different methods of automated batch sizing
      • Automatic unit of measurement for formulation and batches
      • "Backflush" material requisitioning
    • "After-the-fact" purchase order processing for expedited purchases
    • Option for formulation adjustments on batch ticket
    • Automated Material Safety Data Sheet maintenance and printing
  • The Sage PFW Consumer Packaged Goods Modules provide a manufacturing solution you can build your business around, whether your business is established or new. From R&D, Production, and Order Entry to Inventory, Sage PFW can help you run at peak efficiency.

    • Costing
      Quickly and easily adjust production costs to calculate how changes affect total product cost in order to maximize every last penny.
    • Formulas
      Track all aspects of your formulas with this powerful module, which also provides tight security so your secret ingredient information can only be accessed by authorized personnel.
    • Labeling
      Save time and ensure accuracy by automating your entire labeling process, including shipping, product, receipt, finished goods, and package labels.
    • Laboratory
      Transform ideas into products using powerful, reliable computerized formulation, which lets you perform "what-if" scenarios to analyze how changes impact physical formula properties.
    • Inventory Pro
      Access up-to-the-minute information on materials, containers, costs, and finished goods, in order to operate with unprecedented efficiency and profitability.
    • MRP
      Determine precisely when and how much material to purchase based on a time-phased analysis of sales orders, production orders, current inventory, and forecasts.
    • Order Entry Pro
      Build or improve customer satisfaction and keep your customers loyal for life with quick access to all up-to-date customer information.
    • Production
      Minimize downtime and maximize production while enhancing quality, service, and product safety using powerful automation capabilities that expedite scheduling, simplify batch sizing, and improve inventory accuracy and costing.
    • Purchasing Pro
      Manage your purchasing processes efficiently to reap the benefits of lower costs, expedited deliveries, and enhanced vendor relationships. 

    Learn more about the capabilities in the Business Management Modules section below.

  • Sage PFW ERP Software Configurations are modular and fully integrated, providing adaptability today and scalability tomorrow. Sage PFW manages the unique aspects of your enterprise, organizes resources, and provides the visibility necessary to improve bottom-line results. Additional Sage PFW ERP Software Configurations include:

    Core Accounting
    Sage PFW Core Accounting applications are the system’s heart - General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Bank Book, and Multi-Currency Manager.

    Distribution
    Managing every phase of the distribution process with Sage PFW will reduce costs and increase profits.

    Business Intelligence
    Customizable report writers, integration tools, business intelligence tools, and electronic printing solutions complete the Sage PFW business information system. FRx Desktop provides financial reporting (balance sheets, income statements, and more) and comes bundled with both versions of the General Ledger application.

    Payroll, HR and Project Management
    Stay on time and on budget with payroll, HR, and project management tools that integrate seamlessly into Sage PFW.

    eBusiness
    Transacting business over the internet is something your customers expect. The eBusiness application simplifies the technology barrier, giving you the flexibility to build a Web presence complete with security features to keep hackers out.

    CRM
    Customer service, satisfaction, and retention are critical to continued revenue growth. That's why so many companies are using Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions to improve internal communications, increase customer satisfaction, and boost sales revenues.

    Budgeting and Forecasting
    Sage PFW Premier Budgeting and Advanced Allocations automate the time-consuming process of creating budgets and calculation allocations. With Premier Budgeting you can create more precise budgets while saving time and resources. Our Advanced Allocations module automates the allocations process, saving customers a significant amount of time.

  • Welco Manufacturing Company. Welco uses an EDI interface to accept electronic orders through Sage PFW, helping the company to remain competitive. Sage PFW also allows the Welco team to run reports at any time, rather than waiting until the end of each quarter.

    BeeMaid Honey. Bee Maid Honey counts on Sage PFW to track incoming deliveries closely, so that it can monitor the quality of each batch of honey and determine which raw materials to pull for production, from labels and lids to the honey itself.

    Franklin Foods Cream cheese producer Franklin Foods relies on the flexibility of Sage PFW, which allows the company to change flavors during production if customers change their minds at the last minute.

    Millennium Foods By using Sage PFW to track formulas and batch production, Millennium Foods stopped over-ordering, resulting in leaner operations and the use of fresher ingredients.