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SAP for food and beverage

Few industries are as fast moving as food and beverage.

Products have limited shelf life. Consumer demand is unpredictable. Quality standards are uncompromising. The challenge is keeping products flowing from supplier to shelf, all while minimising waste and maintaining complete traceability.

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Food and beverage operations don't just need SAP that works. They need SAP that brings planning, production, warehousing, transport and quality processes together, helping teams respond quickly to change while maintaining complete visibility and control. When every decision impacts freshness, profitability and customer satisfaction, your SAP landscape must be connected, resilient and ready to adapt.

That's where we come in.

Felipe Matallana
Meet the Team
Food and beverage businesses are balancing more and more variables, from demand volatility and shelf life pressures to traceability and compliance. The challenge isn't just keeping products moving, it's maintaining visibility and control at every stage of the supply chain.
Felipe Matallana Solution Architect - APAC
The Reality

This isn’t business as usual. This is business at high speed and your SAP needs to keep up.

The pressures you face

Business & process pressures

  • Maintaining product availability while managing shelf life, expiry dates and stock rotation.
  • Reducing waste and write offs without compromising service levels.
  • Volatile demand driven by promotions, seasonal peaks and changing consumer preferences.
  • Demonstrating complete traceability and compliance across ingredients, production batches and finished products.
  • Meeting increasingly demanding retailer requirements around OTIF, labelling and packaging.
  • Protecting margins amid rising manufacturing, warehousing and transportation costs.
What compounds it

SAP challenges exacerbating them

  • Inaccurate inventory data creating stock imbalances, waste and availability issues.
  • Legacy warehouse processes limiting productivity and real time visibility.
  • Planning and scheduling inefficiencies making it difficult to respond to changing demand.
  • Ageing SAP landscapes that are complex to support and difficult to modernise.
  • Multiple integrations across 3PLs, haulage providers, automation systems and other third party solutions creating operational complexity.

In food and beverage, small inefficiencies quickly become expensive problems. Excess inventory becomes waste. Poor traceability becomes risk. Inaccurate forecasting becomes lost sales.

Complete traceability and compliance

  • Batch management and integrated QA/QM processes embedded within operational workflows.
  • End to end visibility from supplier through to finished product.
  • Faster investigations, recalls and audit reporting when issues arise.

Warehouse operations built for speed and accuracy

  • SAP EWM, IM, WM and Stock Room Management optimised for high volume environments.
  • Integration with AGVs, voice technology, MFS and third party warehouse solutions.
  • Improved inventory accuracy and more efficient warehouse execution.

     

Waste reduction through smarter inventory management

  • FEFO driven stock rotation protecting product shelf life.
  • Real time inventory visibility across warehouses and production.
  • Reduced waste, write offs and expired stock.

Better planning and production scheduling

  • SAP IBP and MP&S improving forecast accuracy and supply planning.
  • Faster response to seasonal peaks, promotions and changing consumer demand.
  • Better alignment between demand, production and inventory.

AMS designed for around the clock operations

  • Functional, technical, basis and security expertise in one team.
  • Proactive monitoring and rapid issue resolution.
  • Stable, resilient SAP environments supporting 24/7 operations.
As our programme moved from design into live operations, TCT helped us navigate the twists and turns that only emerge at scale. They excel at turning challenge into opportunity, while keeping us focused on delivering value to the business.
Matt Currie Product Lead Supply and Logistics

TCT: because you need an SAP partner who understands…

Shelf life management and perishability challenges

Food safety, compliance and end to end traceability

High volume warehouse and distribution operations

SAP EWM, IBP, QM and S/4HANA working as one joined up ecosystem

The impact of seasonal demand and forecasting accuracy

Complex integrations across automation, logistics and third party providers

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