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consulting partner for the food industry

msg advisors: consulting partner for the food industry

Companies in the food industry are constantly operating in a highly volatile market: even slight changes in the supply and demand of raw materials can result in considerable changes in raw material prices. This, in turn, causes immediate changes in the production program, and the costs and profits in product and sales areas. Consumers are providing further transformation impulses, in particular through more individual eating and consumption habits and increased health and environmental awareness.

msg advisors develop innovative solutions for these and other challenges along the entire value chain - from agriculture and the processing industry to trade, logistics and recycling.

We are happy to support you with our expertise in the following focus topics in particular:

Value chain safety
  • "Farm to table": we analyse your entire food supply chain and create transparency and security by ensuring complete traceability of products and processes.
  • Shelf life monitoring: we work with you to develop processes and systems for monitoring and complying with legal requirements for the shelf life of food and for food hygiene.
  • Hygiene management: together we put internal, customer or industry-specific processes to the test in terms of hygiene standards. We also support the implementation of food safety improvement measures along the entire supply chain.
Smart food factory
  • Automation in production: whether automated production lines, picking systems or robot-controlled dispatch warehouses: increase your flexibility and efficiency with us by automating individual processes or entire production areas.
  • Real-time capacity utilisation control: adapt your production flexibly to current requirements by digitally recording real-time data on the utilisation and performance of machines and systems.
  • Quality control using image processing: Industrial image processing offers great efficiency gains compared to the human eye. With us you can tap into this potential in quality control, by improving the efficiency of processes and the quality of information processing.
Production & supply chain planning
  • Recycling optimisation & raw material quantity calculation: we show you how you can use forward-looking production planning systems to optimally adapt raw materials and supplies to volatile demand, optimise recycling, avoid bottlenecks and sensibly schedule even short-term changes.
  • Balancing delivery capability vs. cost optimisation: with predictive planning systems, we help you to ensure your ability to deliver flexibly and cost-effectively despite growing variant diversity and increasing volatility - right down to "Same Day Delivery" and the smallest batches.
  • Networking with customers, partners and suppliers: we support you in the implementation of smart food factory processes within your company, but also in the logistical processes of the supply chain and the optimal networking with your customers, partners and suppliers.
Process optimization & digitalisation
  • Increased efficiency, reduced throughput times: in the food sector, fast processes from ordering, production and logistics to provision on the shelf are crucial. With ERP systems, throughput times can be reduced and production efficiency increased.
  • Establishing and applying LEAN methods: lean management, the approach originally developed in the automotive industry to efficiently design the entire value chain, can also be applied in food production. We provide the necessary methodological competence to optimise processes and procedures in the long term.
  • Paperless processes in production and administration & use of mobile technologies: whether in production, picking or at the customer: the decentralised provision of decision-relevant information is decisive for success in food production. Control the entire production process paperlessly with web- and cloud-based apps and use dashboards for business figures, sales figures or production KPIs on PCs, tablets or smartphones - with us you can plan and set up the necessary infrastructure.
  • Robotic process automation (RPA): thanks to intelligent data management and smart workflows, production processes can be managed more flexibly, monitored more precisely and automated in a targeted manner. We will be happy to advise you on this and on the use of RPA - the automated processing of repetitive processes by digital robots (bots, i.e. software applications).
Production management & controlling (plant operations)
  • Optimised production control: food production is a highly sensitive and often time-critical process. We support you in the selection of an optimised production control system that helps you to use resources of machines, employees and raw materials efficiently, to control requirements exactly, to use storage space optimally and thus save time and money.
  • (Enterprise) manufacturing intelligence (EMI): by integrating automation data from the manufacturing execution system with business management data from your ERP system, we help you to create timely analyses and improve operational processes according to business management parameters at the planning level.
  • Real-time visibility into key KPIs: changes in product range, inventory, material planning, customers and suppliers, recipes or even the weather can affect the entire production. Together with you, we develop the essential KPIs that provide the necessary transparency in real time and thus facilitate flexible production planning.
Costing
  • Comprehensive cost calculation: together with you, we define drill-down functionalities for finished, semi-finished and by-product quantities in terms of raw material, ingredient and material composition as well as process quantities and consumed resources such as personnel, electricity or steam - and thus identify potential for cost reduction.
  • High cost transparency: in several fields we improve the transparency and control of company costs. With our expertise, we are happy to support you in the calculation of planned quantities, cost accounting & profitability analysis, raw material costs and raw material usage calculation as well as in simulation planning for accounting. We are just as familiar with the requirements of product optimisation through exact costs for small series as we are with customer/product result evaluation.
Data integration & management
  • Horizontal integration ("top floor to shop floor"): only a timely analysis of your machine and production data offers added value for your manufacturing processes. In addition, a close link between top and shop floor is essential in order to get from planning to precise production control. Among other things, we can help you improve and accelerate your information flow by connecting big data from your manufacturing execution system to the top floor.
  • Vertical integration throughout the value chain: vertical integration ensures the highest standards at all levels of production, food safety and traceability. We support you in achieving significant capacity improvements and thus substantial efficiency and cost advantages.
  • Master data management and governance processes: efficient master data management, i.e. the proper administration of master data, is a critical factor for success - after all, master data forms the basis of all business processes. We support you in building a solid organisation and governance as well as in the continuous monitoring of master data quality.

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The msg group is active in over 25 countries in the banking, insurance, automotive, food, life science & healthcare, public sector, telecommunications, travel & logistics and utilities sectors. msg also develops integrated software solutions and advises its clients in all aspects of information technology.

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