For Food and Beverage manufacturers across the globe, there's no doubt that organizational productivity helps drive profits. But when it comes to employee productivity, it can also mean a lot more. And that's where a Food and Beverage ERP can be your partner in profitability.

When discussing the advantages of deploying a Food and Beverage ERP, consider the direct connection between an ERP system and the employee experience. If you own a manufacturing business, you know there's a crucial link between your enterprise's profitability and employee satisfaction.

Consider the impact on your employees

In an ideal scenario, the executive team will develop a plan to provide all employees with a standardized, frictionless experience regardless of position or location. Instead of limiting employees, a contemporary, cloud-based ERP solution can give them an experience that empowers them. Here's how a food ERP solution can help:

• Using automation to cut back on or eliminate tedious manual operations
• Cross-functional operations are made less complicated by offering an integrated data core and a seamless view of pertinent data across the organization
• Delivering tailored omnichannel interfaces and consistent log-ins across hybrid work modes
• Data on employee sentiment can be collected and analyzed to assist HR teams in improving the entire employee experience

Your workforce is behind your success. Great labor begins with great people and determines the caliber of your food and beverage products and services. 

When your team experiences job success, they are more likely to be driven to accomplish tasks well, demonstrating greater loyalty to your organization.

4 ways ERP increases employee engagement

While an ERP system like DynamicsFoodERP from Liberty Grove can efficiently run your business, it will also provide your employees greater flexibility.

Here are 4 ways a Food and Beverage ERP can deliver ROI by increasing engagement and giving your employees more power:

#1 - Time is money

Productivity suffers when employees spend most of their workdays manually entering data into Excel sheets or performing other tedious, error-prone manual chores.

With an ERP, the system automates routine, frequently mundane processes. Employees merely need to input updated or new data into the system, which is shared and available throughout the firm. By automating unnecessary operations, your personnel will have more time to work on other urgent, time-sensitive projects.

#2 - Collaboration from the outset

Company owners, managers, or C-level executives are responsible for most corporate decisions. However, it can be difficult to gain employee buy-in when educated estimates and gut instincts drive choices without employee input. When an employee or system user is actively involved, an ERP solution removes the guesswork from the equation for crucial business decisions.

Your employees understand their roles best and can quickly identify repetitive and mundane processes that an ERP solution can eliminate – freeing up their time for more critical and rewarding tasks.

#3 - Going the extra mile

Beyond the value of teamwork, departmental collaboration is crucial to your company's success. With the help of automated processes, an ERP system can consolidate information, make your data accessible, and ensure it's constantly up to date, allowing departments and individual employees to collaborate effectively.

When employees at each level of the organization have access to real-time, accurate data, they can make good decisions with confidence in a positive outcome.

#4 - Remote possibilities

While many workers have returned to the office, others continue to work from home or in a mixed environment. An ERP, especially a cloud-based solution, provides complete system functionality from a desktop, laptop, or mobile device and can be accessed anytime from anywhere.

That allows remote back-office personnel to be independent while remaining an essential part of your company.

Tips for laying the proper foundation within your organization

Choose the best system to fit your company's needs if your corporation is prepared to implement a Food and Beverage ERP solution. First, determine your aims and objectives and choose a reputable internal team for the implementation. Then, specify your functional software requirements, budget and resources, and the system deployment procedure with an ERP partner like Liberty Grove Software.

Look for a few essential aspects when vetting potential ERP vendors, such as an "open" ERP that enables platform scalability and freedom to develop as your organization grows and one that supports mobile users.

Also, pick a supplier with a track record that client endorsements or testimonials can verify, ideally in the Food and Beverage sector. You want your staff to operate independently on an intuitive, simple-to-learn, easy-to-use system.

Nevertheless, implementing an ERP is a complex and complicated procedure. Determining which processes to integrate is the most frequent problem. Your ERP implementation partner will conduct a thorough needs analysis before installation to identify the operational procedures your system must support.

Employee aversion to change and lack of knowledge or proficiency with essential system functions represent a potential barrier. The right ERP partner can provide user training backed by SOPs, embedded help tools, training films, and other learning resources, all supported by thorough and helpful customer service.

It is critical to give your staff the necessary equipment and resources to perform their duties effectively. Remember: your personnel will always be your biggest asset when using an ERP for all facets of your manufacturing business processes.

The more time you can free up for your employees to work on meaningful projects by automating and optimizing tedious tasks, the more time they can spend on skills development and generating novel, original ideas to advance the company.

Summary

A cloud-native Food and Beverage ERP foundation supported by a robust and business-optimized developer environment offers the operational resilience and scalability that today's digital organization demands in an environment marked by continual change and interruptions.

All organizational stakeholders, including staff members, clients, and supply chain partners, will be supported and enabled by a platform built for rapid adaptability through configuration rather than code.

With everyone working from the same data set, productivity and performance increase – and you can watch your profits soar.

Want to increase your employee engagement and give them more power? You and your Food and Beverage ERP solution are where it all begins.

Time to increase employee productivity and profits?

Liberty Grove can help you use many tools and services to help you achieve a successful Food and Beverage ERP implementation that will improve efficiency and productivity throughout your organization.

Contact Liberty Grove for a complimentary consultation on how DynamicsFoodERP can give you the data insights you need to improve decision-making, increase productivity, and compete at a higher level.

Related reading:

Critical Success Factors for the Food Manufacturers (libertygrove.com)

Best 10 Reasons to Move Your On-Premises ERP to the Cloud - Liberty Grove Software

About the author

Liberty Grove Software is an established Microsoft Partner that focuses on providing customers with sales, service, and support for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central/NAV solutions and training and upgrades.

Over more than 25 years, Liberty Grove has assisted hundreds of customers with businesses ranging from small to mid-sized to Microsoft Partners in implementing, training, customization, and upgrading Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions.

The organization is one of only a few companies worldwide that Microsoft recognizes as qualified to provide Business Central/NAV Upgrade Service Centers.