Do the following problems keep you up at night?

 Food safety?
 Regulatory compliance?
 Food traceability?
 Protecting your brand from the liabilities of product recalls?
 Consistent product quality?
 Right-First-Time objectives?
 Product line profitability?
 Management of pricing and trade promotions?
 Optimized planning and inventory levels?
 Customer satisfaction and demands from your channel masters?

Manufacturers in the food and beverage industries face many unique challenges.

The margin for error in today€™s highly competitive, increasingly regulated environment is razor thin. The ability to adapt quickly to changing conditions can mean the difference between success and failure.
KCSI helps manufacturers address the unique challenges of the food and beverage industries. By providing solutions that help you achieve your compliance, customer satisfaction, efficiency and profitability goals, we help you predictably manage the obstacles and grow your business. SIMMS software is a key component in the complete enterprise software solution from KCSI.
In today€™s technology marketplace, you are faced with a daunting variety of choices that may or may not effectively address your needs. Compared to other options, we believe that KCSI offers the ideal enterprise solution for food and beverage manufacturers. Why? Because we are focused on addressing the unique needs of your industry, we are proven with many successful customers in your industry and we offer better, more cost-effective solutions.

We are intensely focused on helping our customers address the current and future challenges of the food and beverage industries. We fully understand the evolving needs of your industries and translate those needs into the current and future capabilities of our enterprise solutions.

Because of our intense focus and commitment to the industry, SIMMS software eliminates the risks and overhead costs that are inherent in generalized systems. For our customers, this means a higher probability of success, shorter time to payback and the flexibility needed to support growth and change. Additionally, SIMMS Software utilizes the latest of technologies as the foundation for our enterprise solutions. Our customers benefit from a low cost-of-ownership over the life of the application, flexibility to support the varied needs of all constituents, and high adaptability to insulate the business from technology changes.

Food Safety
The present-day threats and potential costs associated with food safety have never been higher. As companies seek to increase their control and in turn, minimize the risks, they discover that many varied activities, both within an outside the organization, must be considered. Operations up and down the supply chain must all be addressed.

SIMMS software provides a comprehensive solution that helps you monitor, track and control your critical internal and external activities. Capabilities in the areas of end-to-end traceability, specification management and change management provide the control and predictability needed to detect and address exceptions early in your process. When potential issues are identified, you can quickly determine the underlying cause and make the necessary corrections.

Right First Time
Most food and beverage manufacturers operate on relatively thin margins. With the added overhead of regulatory compliance, the need to minimize rework becomes critical. For most companies, small percentages of rework translate into significant cuts into profits. Executing right the first time is paramount to survival and growth.

SIMMS software provides the advanced planning and tracking capabilities needed to ensure that errors are avoided. Yield planning and analysis capabilities allow you to establish standard benchmarks and identify out-of-tolerance conditions. When thresholds are exceeded, you receive early notifications so that problems can be corrected quickly while the impact can be minimized.

Product Line Profitability
Can you accurately identify your most profitable product lines? This is often critical for companies seeking to focus on their most valuable products and consider dropping their unprofitable products. To do so requires visibility into all material and production costs, including indirect costs or value resulting from co-products and by-products. Visibility is also needed into actual profits that account for promotional deductions such as rebates, discounts and adjustments to orders and payment terms.

SIMMS Software provides the end-to-end visibility needed across purchasing, inventory management, manufacturing and sales to support your comprehensive cost and profit analysis. Support for actual costing exposes all material and operational costs. With Co-Product and By-Product tracking, you can account for all down-stream costs and link benefits back to primary products. You can also link all costs from trade promotions and channel incentives back to finished goods to accurately determine the actual profit on each product sold.

Customer Satisfaction and Demands from Channel Masters
As global markets become more competitive, your customers continue to consolidate into larger companies and buyer leverage and service-level expectations continue to rise. The manufacturers that will thrive and grow in the food and beverage industries will increase their value and differentiate through tighter relationships and with exemplary service for their customers.

SIMMS helps you address all the demands of your customers in a variety of areas including product quality, sales commitments and product availability, make-to-order, vendor managed inventory, on-time delivery and customer service. With integrated capabilities in all of these areas, you can ensure that each customer receives the unique tailored services they value most while you maintain proactive 360?visibility to all activities that impact their experience. Ultimately, SIMMS can help you differentiate your company from the competition and increase your value to your customers.

Remain Competitive
Precise inventory control is an essential part of the operation of a successful, well-organized company and successful businesses require timely and accurate information on your receipts of goods, the movement of goods within or between locations, the sale, removal or other disposition of goods, and the precise valuation and status of goods remaining in inventory at any point in time down to the bin status, color, size, style, lot numbers, serial numbers and expiration dates remaining in stock. SIMMS Inventory Management Program is designed to provide you with accurate information on all aspects of inventory to ensure that the software tools are available to manage and control inventory in the most cost-effective manner possible.

Empower your business to grow
Inaccurate inventory counts can reduce sales and delay shipments past the promise date. Out-of-stock items as well as overstocked items in inventory can be devastating to a business. Additionally, an overstated or understated inventory valuation results in incorrectly reported profits within financial statements. SIMMS Inventory Management Program accurately tracks inventory so no concern can exist over incorrect inventory counts and associated problems.

Achieve an edge over your competitors
SIMMS can provide companies with an additional edge over competitors who are unable to access the same strategic information. It has been designed to accommodate the needs of both large and small businesses, giving everyone in the company total control and access, depending on the permissions assigned to the user, wherever they are€”in a warehouse, in an office, behind a cash register, working from home, working from a remote location half way around the world, in a service truck, in front of a customer, at the loading/receiving dock, or in transit from one location to another.

Easy to configure and customize
SIMMS is easy for any user to configure and customize utilizing several user-defined fields available within the program, eliminating the need to change lines of code at installation. This translates into a reduction of implementation time, and eliminates the possibility of bugs being added inadvertently. Now, there is finally the option of giving any business all the help it will ever need in terms of complete inventory control. Your business can have that "affordable yet powerful" inventory management solution that you have always wanted.

Explore and see for yourself
Explore our web site to learn more about SIMMS Inventory Management Program and download a free, fully-functional 15-day trial copy.