Adifo

Adifo develops and services specialised software solutions for the feed and food industry. Click on the image to visit Adifo's website.

Event: Adifo - Feed sector software seminar

Software solution provider Adifo will host its seminar on feed sector related software tools titled "How to utilize feed industry- specific IT solutions?" tomorrow. Taking place at the Crowne Plaza NEC hotel in Birmingham, UK the seminar offers the opportunity to explore the best IT solutions available to companies in the feed business.

For more than 30 years now, Adifo has translated its expertise in the international nutrition industry into sector-specific software tools. Tools that directly contribute to business goals by implementing best practices.  

Get introduced to these tools and see how they are already being utilized by a range of feed companies including NWF Agriculture Ltd, Group Depré and Twilmij.

The free seminar runs from 10.00 - 17.00  and includes lunch and Belgian beer tasting. 

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Adifo seminar on feed sector related software tools

Adifo

Adifo develops and services specialised software solutions for the feed and food industry. Launching new products, exploring niche markets, reducing costs, optimising resource efficiency and handling the loss of essential business knowledge. Click on image to visit company website.

Adifo - BESTMIX® Formulation as a service

We live in a digital world. While laptops, tablets and smartphones have had some impact on feed production, there has been somewhat of a lag in producers' ability to react in a true real-time fashion in servicing their customers.

In light of this, software supplier Adifo has launched a cloud based collaborative platform as an extension to BESTMIX ® , its profit driven feed formulation and recipe management system.

The extension platform is bound to revolutionise the information interchange between nutrition experts and the outside world. It is hoped it will benefit all parties involved, including feed advisers, external partners and customers.

The Formulation as a Service (FaaS) solution - securely implemented in the cloud - gives users online access to part of a nutrition company's BESTMIX ® database. Users can retrieve minute-precise market data, rely on up-to-date equations and use state-of-the-art formulation functionality at any time. They can also record project or customer-specific data such as purchase costs and specifications.

How it works
At a typical multi-site feed facility, nutritionists are constantly tweaking and updating feed formulas for maximum results.

However, by using the cloud-based BESTMIX ® Formulation as a service platform, changes can be uploaded to the core system and immediately make them available to formulators and partners off-site.

Perhaps the biggest impact of the real-time basis is for the feed adviser out in the field. Instead of relying on formulation data downloads to computers, BESTMIX ® Formulation updates information and the core data platform via the cloud or mobile apps. Using this information, nutritionists can then put information on the raw material available at a site and produce a more accurate formulation for the customer.
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Watch Adifo's video on the BESTMIX ® cloud-based technology below:

Adifo

Adifo develops and services specialised software solutions for the feed and food industry. It achieves success by launching new products, exploring niche markets, reducing costs, optimising resource efficiency and handling the loss of essential business knowledge. Click on image to visit company website.

New demand and capacity planning product released by Preactor

The Preactor Group has today announced the release of its latest solution for scheduling and a new demand and capacity planning module – Preactor 400 GMPS.

The firm, which creates the Preactor range of production planning and scheduling software products for industries including manufacturing, logistics and services, said that Preactor 400 GMPS (Graphical Master Production Schedule) is an essential new tool. It will help companies who want to enhance competitiveness, increase profits and improve customer service.

The problems which frequently challenge the management of FMCG companies (fast-moving consumer goods) include unnecessarily high stock levels of both finished products and raw materials, as well as the possibility of this stock reaching its sell-by date before being consumed. Preactor 400 GMPS has been created to reduce this production problem by allowing effective purchasing of economical quantities of raw materials, plus their timely use.

“It complements our detailed scheduling software, and works both in a make-to-stock and a make-to-order environment, either as a standalone product or linked to ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems,” Mike Novels, CEO of the Preactor Group said.

Preactor 400 GMPS has already been subjected to a year-long trial by many well-known companies in Europe and North America, including Mars and Premier Foods. This has allowed suggested improvements to be built into the product before it is now launched universally.

For make-to-stock businesses, Preactor 400 GMPS uses current and expected future demands, as well as starting stock quantities and stock control rules, to decide how much of each product to make. The resulting required manufacturing quantities are then overlaid onto the real capacity of resources to produce a ‘capacity constrained plan’. This can then be input to the business’s ERP system, if one is in use.

Alternatively, for make-to-order businesses, Preactor 400 GMPS isn’t used to calculate manufacturing quantities. Instead, the user’s material requirements planning (MRP) process will calculate these, so Preactor 400 GMPS is used in parallel with this process. The software can be used to review manufacturing capacity against proposed changes in demand. For example, it can enable businesses to decide whether their current capacity is adequate, and if not the appropriate stage at which to increase capacity.

CORE Software announces new employment opportunities

CORE Software, Ireland's leading provider of software for the Agri-Business; Wholesale, Merchant and Retail sectors has announced further employment opportunities due to the successful addition of new customers in 2012.

As a pioneer within the speciality sector of agribusiness, CORE has delivered innovative solutions for over 30 years and in 2012 continue to expand its services delivery to several new companies and to further expand their product development team.

This covers expansion in additional online shopping capability for merchant traders; the use of tablets for CRM reporting for Agri sales, mobile technology to enable online self-service for suppliers and customers, as well as further upgrades in the areas of Grain Intake & Mill Management, Milk Collections & Payments and Retail Sales & Distribution.

With the need for more process efficiency in mill management, the expected change in milk quotas in 2015 and the continued requirement for efficiencies across POS & distribution within the Co-Op sector, CORE have initiated a programme of extensive work with customers to prepare for these changes.

Increase to Service & Development Teams

This customer expansion has provided new opportunities at CORE and will lead to a direct increase in the hire of development and technical services personnel in the areas of Oracle tools development, database administrators and quality assurance and testing.

Joe Walsh, CEO, CORE Software:

“It is with great satisfaction that CORE Software has seen several new customers progress implementations in 2012 and the early part of 2013. This is as a direct result of our dedication to the Agri-Business sector and we have great plans for the future with several new initiatives that will continue to show that our customers have made the right choice and provide for additional employment within the sector.”

Joe Walsh, CEO, CORE Software

About CORE Software

CORE Software was formed with the objective of supplying an end-to-end business-specific software solution for the Wholesale, Merchant, Retail and Agri-Business sectors, with a focus on large to medium sized organisations, and has done so successfully for over 30 years. Through exceptional industry knowledge and product excellence, CORE has achieved steady annual growth and become market leaders for the agri sector, particularly those with multi-location operations.

CORE has been an approved Oracle Business Partner since 1995. This relationship ensures CORE has access to Oracle’s future technical strategy, which plays a major role in keeping its products in line with the latest database and technological developments.

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