SAP for
Food & Beverage

Absoft can provide high availability with application redundancy and availability SLAs in excess of 99.99% are available from Microsoft Azure.  For many organisations, replicating clusters in the cloud is unnecessary as the hyperscale environment always provides redundant hardware and with suitable cloud-native architecture, SAP can run with high availability without clustering. 

Absoft can design solutions that deliver in excess of 99.95% availability in practice for a third of the operational and build costs of utilising traditional high availability clustering solutions.

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• Key challenges UK manufacturers face today and how cloud computing through SAP on Azure helps tackle them [E-book]

• The Connected Food & Beverage Business: SAP, EDI and online shopping adoption [Webinar Replay]

• Migrating & Running SAP on Azure with Next Generation Managed Service – Frank Roberts & Sons [Customer Success Story]

Interfaces are the single most challenging and complex part of moving SAP to the cloud. Many suppliers overlook interfaces in projects and businesses face operational problems or project delays. 

At Absoft, a complete understanding of interfaces is established before migration. Our multi-discipline team dissects and understands every aspect of the technical and functional features of the interface before commencing migration. With Absoft, all the interfaces are guaranteed to be fully functioning from the start of operations in the cloud.

Related content: 

• Using EDI in SAP – All you need to know [Blog Post]

• EDI Interfaces In SAP: How To Optimise Your SAP Operations [Blog Post]

• SAP and EDI for FMCG: The key to production and automated ordering [Blog Post]

The simple answer is – No, not with the right tools. 

Many suppliers focus on availability of SAP alone, but without fast-paced customer orders and other business documents through EDI interfaces, food and beverage manufacturers are unable to operate. 

Absoft’s managed support services deploy industry-leading monitoring to cover every aspect of EDI and IDOC interfaces into SAP. We provide complete visibility of data flows and know immediately where a fault has occurred to provide an instant response, often with fully automated alerting to the relevant party to resolve the issue. EDI interfaces run without risks with Absoft.

• Learn how our next generation SAP Managed Service delivers actual business impact and value to the customer [Download the E-book]

Get in touch if you have any questions or would like to book a free, non-obligatory consultation with our SAP and F&B experts.

Our Shop Floor solutions are easy-to-use, intuitive apps at the works station or on mobile tablets for your operators that ensure data is captured at the coal-face as it happens. The apps facilitate goods movements around the warehouse, automate materials consumption and automate quality assurance steps in your production process. The shop floor is automated and the top-floor is informed. Get in touch to optimise your shop floor to top floor processes.

Absoft’s ADIMA – our pre-configured SAP ERP solution for manufacturing, ensures you have live visibility into the status of your shop floor. Which orders are in progress, production issues, equipment effectiveness and who is on the shop floor are all available to you in real-time.

SAP is completely integrated and real-time. Thanks to its in-memory data processing capability it offers your customers live updates of the status of their orders – in production, in dispatch, being shipped, invoiced or still outstanding to be paid.

Feedback from implementations is that this is of massive benefit to end-customers and a significant differentiator between you and your competition. Additionally, SAP provides your sales team with robust and trustworthy available-to-promise dates which increases customer trust and confidence in your ability to deliver on-time, with quality, every time.

Manufacturing typically runs on tight margins. Your ability to control the costs that can be controlled is often the difference between thriving, surviving or going under.

SAP ensures that your inventory levels are appropriate, your procurement processes leverage the hard work you have put into negotiating contracts with your key suppliers and monitors in real-time your labour, materials, services and overhead costs.

SAP will also monitor your planned and actual cost variances by product line, product, workstation – meaning that you have the data at your fingertips to: spot trends in the wrong direction, “hot spots” and bad actors – and the system even suggests what you might need to do to resolve the issues highlighted. Learn about our Inventory Reduction and Procure to Pay solutions to gain back control over those processes.