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Sales Orders

Rapid and secure entry and processing of customer orders in the system: customer orders, together with the forecast data, form the basis for pull-planning.

Planning/Forecast

Planning/forecasting function: this, together with the customer orders, forms the basis of production planning. Softproviding Core enables distribution planning for finished and non-finished products. It can record planning quantities and provide an overview of anticipated receipts.

Sow and Boar Breeding

Rearing of sows and boars for breeding: the Livestock Operations Cockpit provides a real-time overview of quantities and costs and enables comparison of target plans with the current status. After breeding is complete, you can transfer stocks at any time into other organizational units. For example, into fattening animal rearing or into subsequent processes, such as slaughtering.

Sow Management

Management of sows for various purposes: you can freely specify the organizational units in the Livestock Operations Cockpit. For example, by sub-segments, such as insemination, gestation stall or farrowing. Softproviding Meat enables you to rehouse stock according to your specific requirements. It provides a real-time overview of quantities and costs and enables comparison of target plans with the current status. You can transfer stocks at any time from one unit into another. For example, from the gestation stall into farrowing.

Piglet Breeding

Rearing of bought-in or own-bred relocated piglets over a period of 8 weeks and up to a live weight of approximately 30 kg: the Livestock Operations Cockpit provides an overview of real-time quantities and costs and enables comparison of target plans with the current status. After rearing is complete, you can transfer stocks at any time into other organizational units: for example, into pig fattening.

Pig Fattening

Rearing of fattening pigs over a period of approximately 5 months up to a live weight of 30 to 120 kg: the Livestock Operations Cockpit provides an overview of real-time quantities and costs and enables comparison of target plans with the current status. You can weigh the animals at any time to monitor their development. When fattening is complete, subsequent processes can be triggered directly from the Livestock Operations Cockpit, such as slaughtering, transfer to another operation or sale of the animal.

Production Planning

Balancing supply and demand: an MRP run (Material Requirements Planning) enables you to break up the pull lists resulting from customer orders and forecast data into bills of materials. This results in the fresh meat requirement. You can project this by means of an MRP calculation or creating a cut list as far as the livestock required. At the same time, push quantity data from livestock procurement flows into the MRP calculation. Softproviding Meat thus provides complete transparency of the push and pull situation for all products in the cut list. After planning is complete, disassembly orders can be generated from the MRP calculation for execution.

Livestock Reception

Unscheduled and scheduled livestock reception: livestock reception can be organized flexibly, from one to any number of items. At lot level, you can enter general qualitative data (for example, supplier grades) as well as quantity and weight information for individual items.

Slaughter Planning

Planning the delivery of livestock: you can individually plan the type of products, quantities, delivery times and other criteria for each truck. This gives you complete transparency for the delivery. Softproviding Meat enables operation-specific and cross-operation planning according to freely defined periods.

Raw Materials Purchasing

Covering the requirement for fresh meat and additional material: Softproviding Meat supports purchasing and processing purchases for external as well as internal suppliers.

Further Processing

Further production with a number of options: in Further Processing, Softproviding Meat uses SAP Standard production orders. Additional functionalities, such as weighing strategies, order pair formation and a whole range of other applications complement the range of options.

Disassembly

The cut list as key element in Disassembly: Softproviding Meat uses this as part of a number of functions, such as disassembly orders, MRP calculations and planning. Disassembly orders are posted from the shop floor. They enable continuous control of output and comparison of target plans with the current status in Disassembly.

Sorting

Strip storage using object determination: Meat Management provides the opportunity to define flexible object schemes with different characteristics. This enables you to record different commercial categories or storage criteria in the system.

Slaughtering

Capturing slaughter data records during slaughtering: Softproviding Meat allocates each slaughter data record to a livestock reception lot. Depending on the type of animal, the data refers to the individual animal, such as with pigs or cattle, or to an entire load, such as with poultry. The slaughter data record contains a wealth of information that is subsequently used for settlement. For example, this includes the slaughter weight or vet's evaluations, which can be flexibly specified.

Slaughtered Stock Settlement

Flexible slaughtered stock settlement: settlement to several different partners is possible. When calculating the sale price, you can include slaughter data, findings and other aspects. The purchase order is executed and invoiced directly from the Slaughter Data Cockpit.

Goods Receipt

Options for controlling goods receipt: incoming goods can be entered directly in Softproviding Meat via the SAP GUI or with a touchscreen application, such as a Device Gateway Applet (DGA) or the Remote Application Framework (RAF).

Integrated Production Control

Production control with different functionalities: options include, for example, make-to-customer order, make-to-stock and mass production by means of production and disassembly orders. Operating data from the shop floor can be called up at any time online in the ERP system.

Half-Carcass Sales

Options for subsequent appropriation of half-carcasses: you can continue to carve up the meat or sell it directly as a fresh product. You can make the corresponding allocation in planning as part of the MRP calculation and thus calculate the exact planned quantities.

Shop Floor Integration

Seamless integration of the shop floor by means of a link with Softproviding Core: Device Gateway Communicator (DGC) enables the integration of weighing, scanning and other devices in the system. The Remote Application Framework (RAF) or Device Gateway Applets (DGAs) handle the requirement for the use of mobile terminals.

Invoice Verification

Control and posting: items are posted in the SAP system for matching amounts invoiced with the purchase order. The goods receipt account is compared with the invoice receipt account.

Packaging

Different packaging and labelling strategies: Softproviding Core supports packaging for stock, as well as packaging labelled as stock or for existing customer orders. Packaging tasks are scheduled in the ERP system and executed on the shop floor. The system provides complete real-time transparency of the entire process, from planning to execution, right through to costs.

Controlling

SAP standard functionality is primarily used in Controlling. Nevertheless, comprehensive reports and analyses are available in Disassembly, to ensure full transparency of output and costs. Standard Cost Estimate enables material value costings within Disassembly.
Controlling with specific functions for Disassembly: Softproviding Meat essentially uses SAP standard functionality in Controlling. In disassembly, the system also provides comprehensive reports and analyses. This therefore gives you complete transparency of output and costs. Material costings are also possible in disassembly.

Product Safety

Clear product identification and absolute transparency: labelling makes it clear at all times which product is which. Labels can be created using the Print Designer, according to individual criteria. Softproviding Meat guarantees traceability from the live animal to the finished product. The Batch Information Cockpit and other reports enable you to track the process at any time.

Reporting

Availability of all data accruing in the end-to-end process in the ERP system: to satisfy specific reporting requirements, you can use standard reports as well as customer-specific reports.

Outgoing Payments

Payment run execution: outgoing payments are processed and the vendor account is compared with the actual payment in accounts receivable and accounts payable in the SAP system.

Warehouse

Goods receipt: warehousing can be controlled using SAP-WM or from an external storage management system that is connected via an interface.

Picking

Picking based on customer orders: the picking process is supported by the Data Process System (DPS). This enables a customer-specific, optimized load carrier calculation. During picking, you can also execute different pick variants and labellings.

Shipping and Loading

Processing customer-specific shipping and loading processes: you can take a process plan as a basis for the shipment of goods. This may include, for example, four steps. Step one: release for picking; step two: pick batch; step three: weigh; step four: load.

Transport

Processing of complex transport processes with the SAP standard transport group functions: the processes, from planning through to settlement, are fully mapped in the system, which thus provides a high degree of flexibility. For example, you can enter incoming and outgoing shipments for various carriers and shipment types.

Proof of Delivery

Confirmation of goods receipt by customer: the proof of delivery saves any queries, if the invoice is only issued after successful delivery. The customer can also confirm the actual date, time, the quantity actually received and the reason for any difference in quantity. For goods where weight naturally can vary, it is possible, for example, to determine the exact amount of the invoice for the quantity actually delivered, based on the proof of delivery.

Billing

Billing with a high level of detail: the invoice can be compiled with reference to an order, a delivery, individual order items or individual delivery items or even a partial quantity for a single order or delivery item.