Food and beverage companies now offer more products to meet the changing demands of today’s consumer. As their business becomes more complex, food and beverage companies need business solutions that are flexible enough to keep up with the rapid pace of change.

Product lines must be constantly adjusted to meet consumer demand. Business models now integrate roles from all points in the value chain. Integration, collaboration and access to timely, accurate information—from the field to the store—are all important issues for today’s food and beverage companies.

CIBER and the Food and Beverage Value Chain

Enter CIBER. Leveraging our extensive food and beverage industry experience, CIBER was one of the first firms to develop a fully ERP-integrated solution to help manage grower relationships and one of the first to apply principles of lean manufacturing to companies in the food and beverage industry.

We’ve helped companies all along the food and beverage value chain drive profitability, enhance productivity and respond more dynamically to their changing business environment.

Our clients span the entire value chain:

• Suppliers
• Growers and Ranchers
• Packers and Processors
• Brokers and Distributors
• Retailers and Food Service

CIBER’s business and software expertise is focused on the needs of companies in the food and beverage value chain. We work with the top tier software vendors to develop, implement, upgrade and support solutions that help food and beverage companies improve business processes and manage their operations more effectively, driving growth and innovation to meet the changing needs of today’s consumers.

Optimize the Value of Your Business Processes

CIBER helps clients in the food and beverage industry optimize their business processes. We have a strong understanding of the unique requirements and best practices of the food and beverage industry, but also recognize that each client has unique and complex business challenges of its own. We balance an industry-focused best practices approach with a focus on teamwork and a philosophy that recognizes that no one knows your business better than you do.

Our clients include:

Suppliers: Suppliers to the food and beverage industry—including manufacturers of fertilizer, seed, farm machinery, packaging supplies and equipment, and more—need flexible enterprise financials, manufacturing and distribution applications that enable them to grow with their business and handle changes to their business model while optimizing their systems investment.

CIBER works with companies like these to implement applications, identify process improvements and adopt industry best practices that allow these companies to meet their strategic goals. We can help them implement lean manufacturing principles and a variety of other business improvements to enable more flexible manufacturing processes, improved control over inventory, shorter financial close times, and better customer service.

Growers and Ranchers: With CIBER, companies who produce the agricultural commodities that feed the world—produce, grain, livestock, dairy and poultry farmers, vertically integrated growers, packers and processors, and farmer’s cooperatives—can understand their costs, reduce product loss, improve forecast crop yields, and make faster, more informed decisions.

We offer application and industry-specific business expertise in the areas of financials, distribution, equipment maintenance, supply chain optimization, and grower management. We can help growers and ranchers manage contracts more efficiently, streamline equipment maintenance, improve financial and inventory controls, and even ensure the accuracy of supply chain execution with solutions like RFID to ensure more accurate shipments to retailers and other customers.

Packers and Processors: Produce packers and processors, beverage producers, canners, meat packing companies, dairy processors, farmer’s cooperatives, and other companies that prepare agricultural products for human consumption operate in an extremely fast-paced environment. Accurate information throughout the entire production and demand flow is the key to ensuring the freshness and safety of products destined for the dinner table.

Whether these companies sell direct to consumers, or through retail or food service establishments, customer perceptions are key. CIBER develops and implements internet-based applications for maximum speed and efficiency, ensuring product arrives fresh, customer orders are filled accurately, and management has the data it needs to react quickly to change. We also can help companies enhance monitoring and control of branding and licensing agreements, and a variety of other issues faced by packers and processors, such as charge-backs, rebates and royalty tracking

Brokers and Distributors: Brokers and distributors are a critical link in the food and beverage value chain, whether their business involves sourcing and selling products directly to retailers, without ever taking possession, or they are a traditional warehouse-based distribution operation. CIBER helps improve sales tracking, inventory tracking and accounting processes for more effective operations and lower costs of doing business.

In order to distribute perishable goods, efficient supply chain systems and processes are critical to customer satisfaction as well as profits. CIBER offers industry leading supply chain expertise and a deep understanding of the technology and other requirements that affect this industry. We can help implement software, data collection devices and processes that can speed items through the supply chain, while increasing the accuracy of transactions. We can also assist with retailer compliance to meet even the strictest requirements.

Our Food & Beverage Clients

Here are just a few of our Food & Beverage clients:

Apio, Inc.
Bolthouse Farms
Dynamic Foods
Major Brands Premium Beverage Distributors