Reduce waste, increase visibility, and minimize costly recalls with Advantive's digital warehouse management and manufacturing execution system.
Vendor
Advantive
Company Website
ParityFactory by Advantive is a digital warehouse management and manufacturing execution system (WMS & MES) designed to help food manufacturers reduce waste, increase visibility, and minimize costly recalls. It offers features such as custom label creation, digital scanning of inventory at receipt, real-time tracking of each lot from work in progress to finished goods, and end-to-end traceability in a single view. The system allows tracking inventory down to the serial number or license plate, showing where a lot originated, its location in the factory, and which customer it was delivered to. With easy-to-use mobile capabilities, employees can digitally enter and trace loads from anywhere on the factory floor. ParityFactory is specifically designed for food and beverage processors, offering features like warehouse and inventory management, food and beverage production management, quality control and lot traceability, real-time reporting, and hardware and IoT integration. It integrates with various accounting packages and ERP solutions, allowing companies to control costs and maintain flexibility.
Features:
- Warehouse and Inventory Management: Simplifies warehouse operations by scanning crates, boxes, or pallets directly into inventory, instantly tracking available ingredients and finished products, along with their precise locations. Offers automatic FIFO and GS1 labeling for efficient lot tracing.
- Food and Beverage Production Management: Enables a paperless production process with comprehensive tracking at each step, improving speed, reducing errors, and alerting users of potential ingredient mix-ups. Dynamically generates finished goods and ingredient pick-lists, providing a transparent view of production flow and enabling inventory tracking even throughout work-in-progress steps. Optimizes production through yield tracking, catchweight production scheduling, and recipe management.
- Quality Control and Lot Traceability: Streamlines the quality control process with the Quality Module (PF Quality), eliminating paperwork and enabling data capture via handheld scanners. Designed for food processors aiming to record, track, and report quality data effectively and ensures regulatory compliance. Offers swift recall capabilities, allowing customers to perform a recall within minutes.
- Real-Time Reporting: Provides an out-of-the-box reporting suite with pre-designed reports, alongside custom report creation, promoting operational efficiency. Offers real-time insights into current production, executes mock recalls within minutes, and ensures checks and balances throughout the factory.
- Hardware and IoT Integration: Seamlessly integrates with connected devices, from scales, inline printers and labelers, to advanced robotics. Accommodates existing tools or planned future additions.