All-in-one business solutions for process manufacturers
An ERP solution tailored to your process manufacturing business makes it easier to meet customer needs with an optimal balance of flexibility and efficiency to create the formulas you want to test and produce within a solid compliance framework. Learn how you can transform your day-to-day operations and get deeper insights with an ERP solution delivered with customizations to your organization by Rand Group.
Manage your process manufacturing operations in a single system
Process manufacturers that adopt a tailored ERP solution have the opportunity to boost production throughput, reduce production delays, cut costly inefficiencies, and improve the performance of their assets. Rand Group’s industry and ERP experts combined with the power of Microsoft, NetSuite, and other leading technologies deliver connected systems with automated process and data flows throughout your manufacturing operation.
Rand Group is your long-term partner to help you address industry challenges such as batch order balancing, lot characteristics inheritance, scheduling, formula management, managing purchase prices based on potency, and more. We have been serving process manufacturing clients – including chemicals and food & beverage manufacturers – since 2003, and are a certified Microsoft gold partner and Oracle NetSuite Solution Provider.
Comprehensive formula management functionality
Easily manage complex formulas by volume or weight while maintaining quality control, plus keep track of co-products and by-products for maximum efficiency.
Complete batch order sequencing
Track lot requirements, leverage production statistics reporting and analytics, and utilize specification management tools to gain control and predictability with production.
Adapt to changing commodity prices
A manufacturing-tailored ERP can automatically adjust product prices based on daily, weekly, and monthly fluctuating commodity prices.
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8 new ways manufacturers can tackle the talent shortage
Manufacturing is an industry that requires a high percentage of workers with specialized skills, and a qualified talent shortage has been brewing since before the pandemic. There is no singular or simple solution for this problem, but there are immediate steps and long-term strategies manufacturers can take to mitigate the skills gap and help find and retain talent. Download this whitepaper to learn more.
Formula, co-product, and by-product set up and management
Formula management is a cornerstone task for process manufacturers, and what sets the industry apart from other types of manufacturers. In an ever-changing business landscape with products tailored to customer needs, you need the ability to easily maintain multiple formula versions for the same product, maintain strict quality control and compliance, and seamlessly manage co-products and by-products.
Essential tasks made possible with a manufacturing ERP delivered by Rand Group includes:
- View real-time costs when formulas are updated for each customer
- Manage the complete cost of formulas to include labor, overhead, and planned cost increases of raw materials
- Identify standard quality-control tests and values for individual formulas
- View historical quality-control values by formula production
Control commodity pricing and changing compliance requirements
In manufacturing, purchase price fluctuations of the commodities used to create a good directly impact the cost and sales price of the finished good. For the sale of this product to remain viable, the sales price of the finished product must be adjusted regularly with respect to the pricing fluctuations in the commodity market. An ERP tailored for manufacturing can automatically adjust sales prices based on commodity prices, eliminating time-consuming manual adjustments.
Product compliance is also key, especially for chemicals, food & beverage, and pharmaceutical manufacturers that need to restrict and regulate shipments to specific countries or regions. Your ERP can also manage these changing regulations specific to each product or customer.
Quickly configure and edit batch attributes
Often customers will ask for specific product requirements where you must define batch attributes such as the fat content of milk to make a specific cheese or viscosity of a paint for a different material. Then, after a quality check, the finished good must meet the value or range of values from batch attributes.
With a manufacturing tailored ERP solution from Rand Group, your users will be able to:
- Assign and reserve batch attributes
- Manage products with active ingredients
- Set ingredient types
- Reserve batch attributes on sales orders
Industry-tailored solutions for process manufacturing offered by Rand Group
Rand Group is proud to offer a variety of ERP solutions built by Microsoft and NetSuite to transform the way you run your manufacturing operations. Our team will help you evaluate and select the best solution for your process manufacturing business, then implement and customize it based on your specific processes. Explore Microsoft and NetSuite solutions below based on your organization’s unique needs.
Dynamics 365 Manufacturing
Dynamics 365 for Manufacturing is a collection of end-to-end manufacturing cloud solutions that help securely connect people, assets, workflow, and business processes for midsize to large organizations with complex manufacturing processes.
Dynamics 365 Guides
Dynamics 365 Guides is a mixed-reality application for Microsoft HoloLens that empowers operators to learn during the flow of work using holographic instructions to get jobs done faster, minimize hours, and improve skills.
NetSuite for Manufacturing
SuiteSuccess Manufacturing by NetSuite is a unified suite to support manufacturing needs including forecasting, supply chain, shop floor scheduling and capacity monitoring, work order management, procurement, and fulfillment.
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