Dairy Products
Production of dairy products is a $60 billion a year industry where profitability is tied to efficiency of operations and effectiveness of marketing. This operationally level playing field means small producers in niche products for cheese, yogurt and ice cream can compete effectively with larger players. With the key ingredient, fluid milk being a commodity priced material, manufactures have to look to other areas of their businesses to compete profitably. Successfully producing these products, manufactured by adding cultures of bacteria, necessitates automated processing and continuous testing for quality control, monitoring and measuring. Final results can have expected variations that allow products to be regraded to more profitable or immediately demanding markets.
The Horizons Manufacturing Suite provides multi product production functionality that specifically targets the needs of these dairy niches providing the ability to identify and track materials assigned to culture processes, monitor progress and apply costs appropriately to all products.
