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 Adifo NV

Want to save on raw material costs?

Thousands of users all around the globe rely on BESTMIX® Feed Formulation software. Why? Because with BESTMIX®, they secure their market position and decrease their raw material costs, in spite of fluctuating raw materials markets.

Check out www. feedformulation.com. Find out who uses BESTMIX® and how you too can maximize your profits. Immediately decrease your raw materials costs by up to 2%!

Increase your business efficiency, secure your data and guarantee your product quality.

BESTMIX® has been used by the feed and premix industry for more than 30 years. This least-cost feed formulation software is constantly updated to today’s market demands, in close co-operation with key users, research centers and branch organizations. This windows-based package is easy to use and offers elaborate possibilities to make your life easier.

BESTMIX® Feed formulation software is a product of:

Adifo NV – Industrielaan 11B – 9991 Maldegem – Belgium

Phone: +32 50 303 208 – Fax: +32 50 711 193 – E-Mail: sales@adifo.be

Web: www.feedformulation.com

BMS MillMaster

"BMS has the products, team and dedication that give me the confidence to invest in MillMaster across our business"

About MillMaster: MillMaster is a comprehensive mill management system, designed specifically for the feed industry.

As a fully integrated software solution, MillMaster facilitates the implementation of common business practices throughout your organisation. This enables businesses, however diverse, to make effective, company-wide management decisions based on consistent information. MillMaster has the most advanced seamless links within the industry to a wide range of third party software, including process control and feed formulation systems, to provide true business integration.

MillMaster will provide your team with the functions they need to meet the demands of your business and keep you ahead of your competitors. Whether you need to handle the complexity of tracing every batch of raw material or identify the margin on every order line, whether you have one mill or twenty, MillMaster has proved it can meet your requirements. It minimises staff costs and provides business-driven rather than IT-driven solutions to your business issues.

The CORE functions in MillMaster include:

      Sales and Marketing
      Sales Order Processing
      Purchasing and Trading Administration
      Formulation Control
      Production Management
      Stock Control
      Financial Management

Sales Order Processing: The Sales Order Processing module enables you to maintain a high level of customer service by helping you meet order requirements efficiently, without delay and to expectations. Features include: order administration, credit checking, prescription management, production planning, process control integration, transport planning, weighbridge despatch, customer price registration, order despatch with label declaration and invoice generation.

Sales and Marketing: The MillMaster Sales and Marketing module allows you to gain clear up to the minute understanding of sales activity, giving you optimum control of your margins and profitability and enabling you to effectively manage your sales team to meet your business objectives. Reports are available, from simple volume and value to detailed margin by order line. MillMaster CRM enables you to monitor current activities and future sales opportunities with your customers and prospects.

Purchasing and Trading Administration: MillMaster’s Purchasing module provides all the tools you need to administer all commodity purchases accurately and efficiently. Features include: maintaining forward contracts, ensuring future sales requirements are covered, planning and receiving intakes, calculating charges and costs, registering matching and approving supplier invoices against expected charges and analysing financial accruals.

Whether you are trading grain, pulses, oilseed or any other agri-business commodity, MillMaster provides you with the tools you need to manage and administer back-to-back trades. Using MillMaster you will be able to manage and fulfil contracts, analyse your trading position, control movement allocations, handle claims, and use the system’s reports to obtain a clear understanding of your business.

Financial Management: The Financial Management module is tightly integrated with all core MillMaster modules to drive and control all administrative and financial activities within your business. Features include sales, purchase and general ledgers with multi currency support.

Stock Control: Full integration with the Sales and Processing module as well as process control allows you to closely manage stocks from raw materials through to the finished product, whilst optimising planned production. Features allow you to determine current stock positions and identify levels of free stock at any time regardless of where it may be located. Automated stock valuations enable you to gain accurate management accounting and margin analysis.

Formulation Control: The Formulation Control module provides stringent control of formulations to meet legislative requirements, accurately producing declaration details and maintaining raw material and formulation costs. Features include: centralised storage, maintenance and approval of formulations, submission of approved formulas to process control, configuration of the label text, withdrawal periods, open declaration statements allowing automatic generation of labels from production plans and with sales dispatches, storage and maintenance of monthly raw material costs, building up cost profiles of finished products incorporating all required overheads.

Production Management: MillMaster’s Production Management module enables you to monitor performance and improve productivity in the mill by giving accurate, real time production information. It also provides full batch traceability from raw material to finished product. Other features include: generation of production plans from order and stock demand, interface with process control, capturing of production information, production batch, events and throughput information, recording of raw material and finished product batch numbers.

So in summary much more than a software solution, MillMaster provides valuable tools to drive and control your business, cut costs through process streamlining and support business change. Most importantly of all, MillMaster’s comprehensive customer information brings you closer to your customers, enabling you to fulfil their real needs.

For further information or to arrange a demonstration, please contact the sales department on +44 (0) 1473 744000 or email us at sales@b-m-s.co.uk

 Cal Software

"Cal’s considerable experience in the feed industry and understanding of operational issues have provided a solution we believe is the best available both for today and well into the future."

Compac Gold at Work

Delivering feed at the right cost, to the right place at the right time, and maintaining tight control is exactly what the Compac Gold solution enables the Mill Manager to achieve.

Whether you are a single or multi mill business, Compac Gold is designed and developed to provide optimal performance. It delivers tight integration to formulation, process control, manufacturing and accounting functions making it the ideal companion to enable a feed business to have unprecedented levels of flexibility and control.

Compac Gold v6 sees customers being able to take advantage of a tailored, role based user interface to help people work effectively and intuitively. Together with a workflow based engine, this increases staff productivity, promotes best practice and reduces the potential for keying errors.

Modular in design, with comprehensive features and functionality as standard, Compac Gold also offers a wealth of additional modules. These enable the modern feed business to take customer service to even higher levels of efficiency, customising the solution to meet their own individual strategic needs.

Customer Relationship Management – keeping ahead of the competition

In today’s competitive market place, it is imperative to provide an unparallel level of customer service. Cal’s Customer Relationship Management module is industry specific. Embedded within Compac Gold, it enables all transactions including emails to be recorded in one single system. This provides improved efficiency and a reduction in overall cost by removing complex integration and minimising staff retraining costs.

Ecommerce - service 24/7

Compac Gold’s Inteletrade is designed for Business To Business and Business To Consumer business processes. This enables you to get the most out of your e-business solution and the supply chain. It provides you with a self-service facility for your customers and suppliers and supports the provision of high quality service delivery.

Compac Gold v6 functionality provides:

Customer Service

      Customer Relationship Management
      Representative and Farmer Account enquiry online
      Sales Forecasting
      Sales Quotations

Production

      Multi Mill and Multi Site Management
      Formula Management, Product Labelling and Blending
      Integration with Least Cost Formulation
      Resource and Production Planning
      Process Control Integration
      Raw Material Orders and Contracts
      Product and Grist Costing
      Full Traceability back to both Store and Origin
      Available and Free Stock Management
      Prescriptions
      Laboratory and Sample Management

Transport

      Logistics and Transport Trip Planning
      Weighbridge and LIMS integration
      Shipping

Administration

      Risk Management and Futures
      Foreign Exchange Management
      Budgeting and forecasting
      Management Information
      Regulatory reporting and UFAS controls
      System Workflow

In conclusion, Compac Gold is a trusted and proven feed solution utilising the latest technology. Successfully deployed and established in the market, it is considered the solution of choice by many of the UK’s leading agri-businesses. At Cal we focus our activity around our customer’s needs and take a partnership approach, which underpins our market strength and leading position. We have continued to dedicate research and development, with both existing and new feed customers to deliver high quality, future proof feed manufacturing solutions for agri-business.

For further information or to arrange a demonstration, please contact the sales department on +44 (0) 1257 231011 or email us at sales@calsoftware.co.uk

 DSL Systems Ltd

Optimise your mill using DSL AutoPilot4Feed

DSL Systems (www.dsl-systems.com) believe AutoPilot4Feed is the most advanced and comprehensive control system in the world that is designed specifically for feed mills, pet food plants and similar factories. AutoPilot4Feed is fully configurable and has modules for controlling all areas of a typical mill. It may be used to control one area of a plant initially and then extended as circumstances permit. AutoPilot4Feed has many features built in to help optimise the process and allow unmanned operation where possible. AutoPilot4Feed runs on standard Windows PCs with built-in redundancy and has recently been ported to the Microsoft .net platform. This ensures true compatibility with Microsoft’s recently released Windows 7 and future proofs the system.

AutoPilot4Feed can connect to most commonly found new and old IO systems, which allows your process control system to be upgraded with minimum disruption and wiring changes.

AutoPilot4Feed includes comprehensive logging information which is stored in an open Microsoft SQL Server database for up to 5 years. Data may be displayed and printed using the viewing tools and reports provided or custom reports may be produced by the user. Integration facilities can be provided to exchange this information with commercial systems.

Additional facilities may be added to the system including Warehouse Stock Tracking, Masterweigh hand weighing, Power Monitoring, Asset Master maintenance system, Moisture measurement and control, Hand Held PDA, Full lot traceability, Bar-coding systems and the sophisticated Plan4Feed order scheduling system with Kanban option.

DSL Systems provides 24 hour / 7 day support for all its systems worldwide.

For further information, please contact:

Matthew Swallow, DSL Systems Ltd, Adbolton Hall, Adbolton Lane, West Bridgford, Nottingham, NG2 5AS, England.

Tel: + 44 (0)115 981 3700, Fax: + 44 (0)115 981 3700, Email: mail@dsl-systems.com, Web: www.dsl-systems.com

FeedAX by Sense Enterprise Solutions

FeedAX was originally developed in 2003 when the UK’s leading Microsoft Dynamics AX partner, Sense Enterprise Solutions Ltd, started working with Yorkshire based I’Anson Brothers Ltd. This led to Sense developing the feed specific functionality within the industry standard Microsoft Dynamics AX software. It soon became evident that there were other feed manufacturers and distributors who required a modern, flexible, integrated and cost effective business management system and that the options available were failing to meet these criteria. With this in mind, and after winning an international industry award, FeedAX was launched in 2008 to the wider market.

2010 was another busy year for Sense in the animal feed industry with two new prestigious clients going live on the FeedAX system: Thompsons of York and Fane Valley Feeds Ltd (formerly Scott’s Feeds).

Fane Valley selected FeedAX for their back office systems as part of a complete business overall which saw Fane complete the move to their brand new, state of the art, £18 million compounding feed mill in Omagh, Northern Ireland. FeedAX and Microsoft Dynamics AX now cover all of the finance, order processing, raw material contracting and logistics planning functions. It also enables direct control of the inbound weighbridge and comprehensive integration with DSL’s AutoPilot 4 Feed system which provides end-to-end computerised control of all financial and physical operations. In addition, advanced document handling and integration technologies such as RFID, dramatically improve information management and accessibility.

Fane Valley Director, William McAusland, expands on their decision. "When Fane Valley Co-op made the decision to re-locate the 160 year old animal feed mill from the centre of Omagh, it became apparent that we should also update our IT system. After extensive research, we were impressed by Sense’s understanding of our industry specific requirements, as demonstrated in their FeedAX product. The fact that their system was based on a modern accounting system, Microsoft Dynamics AX, made the selection even easier."

One key advantage of FeedAX over other systems is that it is developed in line with the strict requirements of the Microsoft Industry Solution Vendor (ISV) programme. This programme governs the way add on solutions are developed and ensures that FeedAX seamlessly extends the core capabilities of Dynamics AX and is kept up to date with future version releases. This, along with Sense’s vast AX experience means that FeedAX will continually develop and clients will be able to upgrade to future versions easily and avoid the pitfalls of bespoke AX solutions.

"Most of the systems within the market are old technology or proprietary / bespoke systems. The fact that Microsoft are a long term player instrumental in most of the technology we use at work, makes FeedAX a sound, long term choice. Couple this with the incredible R&D investment Microsoft makes in Dynamics AX every year, and you have an unbeatable proposition in terms of technology and value for many years to come," commented FeedAX Product Manager, Andrew Birch.

FeedAX extends the standard functionality of Microsoft Dynamics AX adding the following agricultural, and more specifically, feed milling functionality:

    Contracting – Comprehensive real-time management of all contract movements, positions and balances across multiple sites and companies.

    Weighbridge – Completely integrated, touch-screen enabled module that links to weighing equipment to capture and update all movement - in and out - in real-time.

    Sales – Rapid, telephony integrated order entry screens with immediate access to order history and intelligent rules engine to identify potential issues with an order and escalate them to the appropriate department before they cause a problem.

    Transport – Fully integrated transport scheduling and cost management handles all movements in and out of site with intelligent vehicle to delivery address checking to prevent the allocation of orders to inappropriate vehicles.

    Integration – Integrations to formulation, production and transport routing systems are integral to FeedAX with standard support for all the most popular systems and a flexible and extensible architecture that makes virtually any integration possible.

For further information, please e-mail: mikeb@sensegroup.co.uk, telephone 0115 964 6646 or visit www.feedax.com

Feed Management Systems

Feed Management Systems™ is the leading software company providing integrated solutions for the animal feed manufacturing industry in over 67 countries. FMS solutions help you manage business growth, optimization of feed formulas, visibility into ingredient purchase costs and nutrient values, and more.

Brill® Formulation is the leading feed formulation software for the animal feed industry. Combing advanced technology, industry expertise and system integration, it is the central repository for all data related to nutrients, ingredients, cost and feed formulas. With the most comprehensive set of features, it meets the needs of any size operation develop the least-cost recipe for a specific formula, based on required ingredients and nutrients, and allows you to report on that data across your organization.

Brill Formulation Multi-Blend™ is the production and purchasing decision tool you need to make the best economic use of limited ingredients. Multi-Blend has helped companies across the globe reduce costs and simplify the acquisition and allocation of ingredients across plants, reduce time in modeling changing scenarios, quickly reformulate in aggregate and make selling decisions.

Our global team gives you local service to understand your business needs, and guide you through the process of applying the right processes and technology to drive productivity and profits.

For more information, visit www.feedsys.com

Format International Ltd

An exciting year ahead for Format customers

After more than 30 years of supporting the feed industry with its multi-module optimisation and resource management software, Format International Limited is gearing up for the launch of a major new suite, Format iNDIGO™.

Format iNDIGO™ utilises cutting-edge technology to provide a user experience which, when compared to today’s packages, is a quantum leap forward. Whilst retaining the core integrity, robustness and stability for which Format software is so renowned, users can look forward to a completely modern and flexible interface that both looks and feels totally natural. IT management as well as end users can be justifiably excited about the opportunity to deploy a truly modern, secure, tiered client-server system in their enterprise.

The new system has been engineered from the ground up, the result of a rigorous programme of redesign, and the outcome is a suite of software, Format iNDIGO™, destined to become the new standard in resource optimisation software.

An upgrade route will be available to existing customers who wish to take advantage of the new system. Format’s dedicated and personalised support function is available to users of both the current Format NCTM and Format iNDIGO™.

To be among the first people to find out more information about Format iNDIGO™ please register your interest via email to indigo@formatinternational.com

Format International Ltd, Format House, Poole Road, Woking, Surrey, GU21 6TY, England

T: +44 1483 726081.      F: +44 1483 722827

E: info@formatinternational.com     W: www.formatinternational.com

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