Whether it’s managing rising demand from emerging markets or protecting established markets from competitors, today’s top food and beverage manufacturers need an international perspective to maintain growth. Of course, when operations are diverse and distributed, efficiencies are harder to achieve – especially critical in an era of rising commodity costs that place tremendous pressure on gross margins.
Beyond rising costs, there are other pressing challenges keeping executives up at night. Among them: Government compliance, management of a global supply chain, product quality and continuous process improvement – not to mention battling with disparate IT systems. For fresh ideas, many industry leaders turn to Cognizant’s EMS practice.
We leverage technology to deliver a higher level of operational excellence. From accuracy in tracking, tracing and genealogy to optimizing inventory for perishable ingredients/products, our technology and business insight can provide a sustainable competitive advantage. You’ll gain a new level of understanding into performance through advanced analytics and decision support tools. Benefits include reduced machine downtime and streamlined process and food safety compliance.
What We Offer
EMS offers lifecycle services including design and plant engineering, as well as expertise in delivering solutions that span I/O devices to SCADA to enterprise applications. Core areas of competency include:
- Batch scheduling and electronic batch records
- Weighing, dispensing, inventory management and control
- Deviation, CAPA and complaint management
- Laboratory information management system
- Packaging line execution and control
- Enterprise manufacturing intelligence
- Plant-to-business integration
Solution Accelerators
To deliver solid business benefits to Food and Beverage manufacturers in less time, Cognizant offers pre-built solution accelerators. These applications have been developed specifically to address common challenges in the industry and are proven in the field. They include:
- Closed loop performance management – Delivers event-based manufacturing intelligence and proactive identification of unfavorable events to minimize impact and enable real-time action
- Batch execution and analytics – Provides scheduling and electronic batch execution and proactive management of shop-floor events, providing greater visibility and analytics for decision support
- Order Trace – Provides traceability from recipe creation through to execution
- Packaging execution and performance management – Delivers greater visibility into performance, downtime, problems and state, and integrates with most packaging systems
- Engine for enhanced traceability – Enables complete traceability across the value chain – F2F (food to farmer)
- Overall equipment effectiveness [OEE] – Enables aggregation and processing of data and visualization capabilities
- iBatch – A comprehensive solution for batch lifecycle management in Food & Beverage