Industries - Formula-Based Manufacturing

Bill of Materials
MPP
Eng. Change Order
Serial & Lot Control
Router
Shop Floor Control
MRP
MPS
Configurator
Item Pricing Matrix
HQMS

Whether producing food products for human or for animal needs, most of these manufacturers have a common need to control part of their production process with batch calculations and others, such as final packaging and labeling, with discrete functionality. The Horizons Bill of Material and Production Entry module is specifically designed to allow the user to run both batch and discrete manufacturing processes accurately and easily from within a single software product. For those manufacturers who begin with a common raw material and production process, but yield multiple end items in a single production run, Horizons Manufacturing Suite provides single work order functionality in our Multi-Product Production Module that significantly reduces transaction volumes while still maintaining full serial and lot traceability. Additional functionality that food and beverage processors will find appealing:

• Cradle-to-Grave Lot Control
• Formula Scalability
• Formula Management through ECO
• Rapid Filling and Packaging
• Combined functionality for batch and discrete processes
• Unlimited Lot properties to help manage nutritional requirements.
• In place and in process data collection for quality control and HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point)
• Scrap and by-products functionality
• Add items multiple times to the Bill of Material to identify process for mixing or blending
• Produced material weights or volumes accommodate shrinkage Amounts produced not required to equal amounts consumed
• Manage Shop Floor resources in real time to quickly respond to changes in customer demand

Industry Niches Currently Served

• Brewing
• Chocolate Products
• Fruit Processing and Canning
• Blended and Dried Mixes
• Specialty Breads and Dough Products
• Veterinarian Supplies
• Animal Feed
• Processed Meat Products
• Fish Products
• Bottled Waters and Beverages

Customer Stories

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"Snokist implemented HMS a few years ago and it is wonderful to have a product that is fully integrated with our financials and allows us to build our finished goods inventory at costs and post this costs when sales documents are created. Before this module, we were maintaining our data in spreadsheets. It is great to have a product that just works!!"
Belinda Cole, Director of Accounting & Information Services, Snokist Growers