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Recipe Management
Discrete environments assemble products from a standard quantity of materials and are produced in a linear manner. Process environments manufacture products in a series of compounding, mixing, cutting, and culling operations that turn ingredient materials into one or more finished products. Process recipes can be much more complex and contain many more variations than a discrete bill of materials. Junction F/B provides this unique flexibility in establishing a recipe structure that not only supports these unique requirements but also allows for adjustments in the planning of the production of those products.
With Junction F/B flexible formula and recipe management dealing with the complications of process and discrete operations and accounting for materials is much more effective and efficient throughout the supply chain. Recipe specifications support both assembly and disassembly operations as well as multiple levels of recipes.
Junction F/B provides the ability to identify multiple inputs and outputs in your recipes. These products, co-products, and by-products can be established in various configurations. In some cases, a by-product may be scalable with the entire recipe and in other cases a by-product may be a fixed quantity regardless of the recipe size. This concept is also utilized for the input materials. A Recipe Scaling Workbench enables you to scale the recipe for production based on any input or output material in the recipe. This provides a sophisticated “what-if” simulation tool that can be utilized when it is desired to work away certain materials, re-scale the production based on changes in demand, or to ensure consistent quality of the manufactured products.
Utilizing Junction F/B Blend Optimizer you can allow the system to 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 industries that can utilize several different input materials (e.g. Skim Milk + Cream, or 2% Milk + Cream, or Whole Milk + no Cream) and the most efficient combination needs to be utilized when cost, quality or expiration issues are a factor.
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