ARETE Consumer Products Solution

As supply - demand balance changes in favor of the customers, enterprises in consumer products industry need to perform serious efforts to be preferred among tough competition. Competition gets tougher. Producers are forced to create multifarious varieties for their product line. Challenges in effective brand management increase. Different types and needs of distribution channels need to be managed. Social and legal necessities should be strictly followed. Running and managing the operations in the highly competitive environment of today, force companies to concentrate on their core business and oblige their IT system work flawlessly. ARETE Consumer Products Solution establishes this perfect structure and creates added values like reducing operating costs and minimizing risks.

ARETE, upon completion of a number of SAP implementation projects for various CP companies in Turkey, delivers this expertise in an all-in-one package solution for the consumer products industry. ARETE CP Solution enables small to medium size companies to re-structure and run their business processes in an integrated system tailored specially for CP industry.   

ARETE CP Solution covers all the basic and crucial needs of CP industry. It is fast, easy to implement and designed to meet all the necessities a CP company may possibly expect from an ERP solution. The solution differentiates from other ERP solutions with its short installation period, well tailored functionality for industry specific processes and specifications meeting global market demands and standards. Equipped with SAP Best Practices, ARETE CP solution delivers fast answers to problems companies face in their supplier, distributor, retail and end consumer chain.

Examples from the key benefits of ARETE Consumer Products Solution are listed below:

• Finite Capacity Planning: In order to distribute customer demands and forecasts to production lines, finite capacity planning program is developed.  Through this program, day, week or month based capacity planning can be done depending on the constraints like line capacity, labour capacity, set-up and transition times. Overtime and optimum shift decisions can be taken by using this planning environment.  As if scenarios can be evaluated and optimum line balance decisions can be taken.
• Mobile Applications: Confirmation and material transfer values are collected from production area by means of mobile terminals and barcode printer, which are integrated with SAP.  Mobile solutions improve efficiency of system usage.
• Batch Management: For the sake of traceability, batch detailed inventory management is used. All material movements and stock quantities are updated per batch number. Critical batch properties are recorded by using batch characteristics such as production date, expiration date, production lines etc. Therefore, customer complaints and refusals can be analyzed depending on the refusal batches. Other possible related batches can be called back. The relation between production batches and component batches can be provided top to down or vice versa through SAP system.
• Because same product can be exported to several countries with different legal rules; labels, definitions and some different features can be required for different counties. In order to manage this requirement, planning and production processes are structured similar to make-to-order business processes. Stock availability can be checked depending on product-country combination.
• Scrap, waste and rework processes are modeled and reflected into SAP. Productivity of the production process is controlled by means of the analysis from SAP system. This scrap analysis can be done per material, per production line or per plant.
• Material staging process can be managed by using SAP system. Production department reserved their daily, a few days or weekly materials requirements by using reservations and pull lists. Row and packaging materials are transferred depending on these reservations.
• Master Data Management: A flexible master data infrastructure is designed. New production line investments and new product decisions can easily be stimulated in the system. Material, work center, machine and production line numbering is designed so that every part of organization can easily understand.