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. Helping you respond to an increasingly competitive marketplace driven by rapid change in customer preferences, increasing legislative requirements, demands for faster order turnaround, and pressures to increase batch yields and efficiencies is what Sage PFW ERP does better than any other product available.
Food and beverage companies need more than process manufacturing modules like Formulas, Production and Inventory. That’s why Sage PFW 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, and manage all of your financials, from standard accounting to multicurrency and multicompany requirements frequently needed in an international marketplace.
New! Sage PFW Whitepaper For more information on challenges currently facing the food and beverage industry, see our whitepaper titled, "Managing Risk in the Food and Beverage Industry."
Rapid Technological Change Because Sage PFW ERP reflects over 20 years of continuous development in helping customers succeed, it is widely recognized as the industry standard for process manufacturing. The following highlights some of the benefits to using Sage PFW that can impact your ability to gain a competitive edge:
Food Safety and Nutritional Labeling In today's increasingly litigious and regulated environment, it is critical that food manufacturers maintain brand expectations of product quality. Sage PFW provides powerful tools for ensuring the maintenance of high product quality standards, including:
Rapid Response to Competitive Challenges Sage PFW is specifically designed to allow you to be faster and more accurate in operations and to be able to react flexibly to customer needs.
Continue reading about the Food and Beverage Modules and the other Business Management Modules to learn more about Sage PFW. Also, don’t forget to review the Success Stories to see how other businesses succeed with Sage PFW.
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 drum 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.
MSDS/Compliance Eliminates the complexities of MSDS processing by keeping your business in full compliance with virtually all government and industry reporting requirements.
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.
Technical Foundation and Security Like a building, a software application is only as good as its foundation. Sage PFW is written in Microsoft Visual Basic, the industry-standard programming language.
Franklin Foods Cream cheese producer Franklin Foods relies on the flexibility of Sage PFW, which lets the company change flavors during production when customers change their minds at the last minute.
Halben Foods Halben uses Sage PFW to automate its process manufacturing operations and sees significant savings from the improvements to its inventory management and waste control.
Shaw's Southern Belle Frozen Foods, Inc. In addition to using Sage PFW to identify its most profitable product lines, Shaw’s appreciates the system’s accurate inventory data for reordering and better scheduling.
Trans-Ocean Products, Inc. When Trans-Ocean purchased its customer list from its broker, it turned to Sage PFW to aid its new in-house sales force with costing and planning, tracking inventory, and preparing reports.
Millennium Foods By using Sage PFW to track formulas and batch production, Millennium Foods stopped overordering, resulting in leaner operations and the use of fresher ingredients.
Par-Way Tryson As a family-run liquid production business, Par-Way Tryson relies on Sage PFW to streamline its entire operation, from order entry and warehousing to invoicing and general accounting.
Bee Maid Honey Ltd. As a cooperative of numerous beekeepers around Canada, Bee Maid Honey uses Sage PFW to track incoming deliveries, monitor the quality of each batch of honey, and handle all financial functions