NaviCon Confectionary

“Confectionary market is characterized by a quick product delivery from the manufacturer to the end customer. Such market quality demands rapid decision making. Considering the enormous information flow, the management of a confectionary holding is not possible without creation of a corresponding IT system that could ensure planning, posting and control of material flows, prepare data for making management decisions and provide optimization algorithms”, - says Sergey Nosenko, Chairman of board of directors “The United Confectionary Manufacturers”.

NaviCon Group has developed NaviCon Confectionary solution based on Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP system. Using the up-to-date enterprise management techniques, this solution is designed to automate production planning and analysis, financial accounting, warehouse and distribution processes of confectionary enterprises. NaviCon Confectionary covers both standard and industry-related business processes, ensures functional and geographical scalability, provides powerful tools for interactive report generation and supports the standards of electronic document flow.

NaviCon Confectionary is the first Microsoft Dynamics AX based industry solution for confectionary enterprises. It has been successfully implemented in “The United Confectionary Manufacturers” holding that unites 15 confectionary companies all over Russia including “Rot Front” (140 concurrent users), “Red October” (90 concurrent users), “Confectionary Concern Babayevsky” (130 concurrent users).

NaviCon Confectionary solution covers the following industry-related functions:

• processing of confectionary products characteristic features in a single information system;
• formulations for intermediate and finished products, dry substances and fan-tail percentage calculation;
• support of production cost items;
• planned unit cost calculation for intermediate and finished products, print of the approved calculation forms;
• analysis of planned and actual unit cost, calculation of deviations;
• support of production plans per shop floors and production lines;
• raw material demand calculation per shop floors in a selected period;
• creation of picklists;
• calculation of finished product output per production line, floor, shift;
• plan\actual analysis of finished product output;
• WIP inventory calculation per shop floor box rooms, plan\actual WIP data analysis at the end of the period;
• Creation of basic reporting forms for shop floor accounting;
• Product quality control, printing of quality certificates;
• Batch accounting, control of product expiry dates, FEFO (First Expired – First Out) method;
• Cargo flow management for shelf storages with regard to confectionary products keeping conditions and using a bar-code technology;
• Inter-depot product processing management;
• Support of delivery schedule with individual requirements towards shelf life expiry dates;
• Safety stock planning for warehouses with regard to the types of minimum balances;
• Flexible work with stock reserves, possibility to automatically allocate reserved items per customer inquiries with regard to priorities;
• Order filling control per confectionary groups, sales quotations;

Those companies who use NaviCon Confectionary get the following benefits:

• complex and integrated system for geographically distributed branches;
• high data exchange speed both within a company and a logistic chain;
• application of unified planning, management and production control methods;
• increase in sales planning efficiency and control;
• centralized distribution system for products manufactured by different enterprises;
• advanced pricing policy (flexible pricing procedures per customer statuses, various discount types);
• increase in customer service quality due to quick and correct order processing;
• increase in item turnover due to optimal utilization of warehouse capacities;
• improved data actuality for raw materials and finished products warehouses as well as for distribution centers;
• operational management for customer and vendor open balances;
• simultaneous work for a large number of system users;
• time saving for staff training.