Dairy

Gain Efficiency Without Losing Quality

Fresh milk, cream, butter, buttermilk, yogurt, desserts, ice cream and every variety of cheese - sliced, hard, semi-soft and soft. These are the varied and continuously changing products of the dairy industry. Faced with increasing global competition, niche market sprawl, and the steadily rising cost of raw materials and energy, co-ops, dairy companies, and cheese factories must address five key challenges in order to remain competitive:

Reducing costs across the entire production and distribution process
Improving flexibility, particularly with regard to faster changeover of products
Enhancing speed-to-market of short-life goods
Ensuring a consistently high level of quality
Complying with strict industry and government regulations with the greatest possible efficiency

Junction Solutions’ JunctionFB and JunctionDS address these critical needs and support the entire dairy and cheese manufacturing, packaging and distribution lifecycle. From managing producer payroll and optimizing production scheduling, to ensuring USDA and FDA compliance, Junction Solutions provides complete visibility into and control over changing industry and business requirements - from farm to shelf, and every step in between.

Remove the Fat, and Gain Visibility and Control

Automate Milk Market Accruals

Utilizing spreadsheets to value inventory, estimate financial settlement payments, and book appropriate accruals doesn’t provide co-ops and dairies with the visibility and control needed to compete. Junction Solutions provides tools that automatically and appropriately re-classify inventory and book the appropriate financial impact in real time using automatic inventory reclassification capabilities to maintain an accurate Milk Market Accrual. Best of all, end users have full visibility into dairy cost components in their respective classes throughout production, giving them powerful decision-making potential.

Set Up Flexible Milk Market Pricing

Completely flexible and configurable without coding, users can define market prices based on milk market announcements or open market spot prices. In essence, users create a custom fit for their specific market pricing needs. For co-ops, dairies, and cheese factories with facilities in different locations or those that produce different product lines, class and component cost structures can change between the different market orders.

Streamline Producer Payroll

Dairies need a simplified method of milk receiving with a quality control and respective dairy component tracking system designed for complex producer payroll functions. Junction Solutions provides this automated solution, integrated with accounts payable to seamlessly manage pre-payment and settlement. It enables dairies to automatically track transactions to record both inventory and accruals to the general ledger. Learn more

Optimize Pasteurizer, Tank, & Filler Scheduling

Junction Solutions enables dairies to schedule complex, multi-step process manufacturing operations. Junction Solutions’genetic optimizer (GO) schedules conventional and organic products, across multiple pasteurizers, tanks, and fillers. Orders, or production, are scheduled to maximize on-time delivery, while minimizing allergen cleaning and changeover-driven downtime, all within the production constraints specified for each piece of equipment. GO optimizes production line scheduling of raw materials where production and resource constraints must be considered. The GO scheduler enables manufacturers to reduce the workload associated with scheduling, while improving the quality of production schedules and quickly responding to changes within the schedule throughout the day. The GO scheduler optimizes even the most complex production and packaging schedules, such as make to order. Learn more

Maximize Resources with the Best Combination

Utilizing Junction Solutions’ batching/blending, dairies can let the system determine the best combination of certain ingredients to achieve the most effective utilization of material resources, while striving to produce a quality product at the least cost. This is especially important for the dairy industry which utilizes several different input materials (e.g., skim milk + cream, or 2% milk + cream, or whole milk + no cream). In addition, the most efficient combination needs to be utilized when cost, quality or expiration issues are a factor. Batching/blending capabilities are flexible to produce the product quality desired, based on ingredients from different sources and varying quality specs. Learn more

Go Mobile with Wireless & Real-time Access to Inventory & Order Management Data

Junction Solutions offers processors an easy, accurate way to manage inventory and order management data with automatic and wireless connectivity between handheld devices and business management solutions. Wireless warehouse functionality is built to accommodate any basic inventory dimension, support inventory transfers, standard picking, access to existing inventory count journals from the warehouse, ad-hoc inventory adjustments, and purchase order receipt posting, just to name a few. The same functionality is also extended to shop floor control users via touch screens. Learn more

Manage and Analyze Trade Promotions

Junction Solutions offers sophisticated tools that provide robust fund, promotion, payment, and deductions processing. To complement those tools, this closed-loop, fully integrated solution offers comprehensive analysis tools to help determine the success of your promotion. Junction Solutions’ intuitive solutions fully support the entire ‘promote to profit’ business process. Junction Solutions trade promotions management (TPM) provides complete visibility and control to handle everything from analysis, funding, and planning to execution and claim/deductions processing. TPM completely integrates pricing, order processing, and financials throughout the enterprise. Learn more

Simplify Direct Store Delivery

Junction Solutions’ Direct Store Delivery (DSD) supports static and ad hoc routes, load sequencing, delivery calendars, route optimization, vendor managed inventory (VMI), and delivery via distribution centers. These capabilities are also extended to mobile solutions. Junction Solutions has a better way to manage inventory, load, route, and delivery information and provide full visibility from the customer service representative to the delivery truck driver. Learn more

Optimize Distribution Operations

Dairy organizations require tools that can seamlessly manage, automate, and optimize distribution operations. Junction Solutions’ product suites streamline the end-to-end distribution supply chain, from order management and pick/pack/ship, to dispatching and dock door scheduling, to direct store delivery. Learn more

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