Whether your customer service operation is one person, a team or a coordinated group of departments, Parity Sales Management is built around best practices for efficient workflow management for one of your most complex, demanding, and outwardly visible business processes. Large or small, simple or complex, Parity Sales Management scales to fit, making your operation orderly, predictable and efficient.

With Parity Sales Management, the process improvements are noticeable for all aspects of you operation. Your finance team will appreciate the efficiency and security of the orders-to-cash cycle. You company’s executives will have tools that provide the kind of visibility into sales, marketing and profitability they can use to make more informed decisions.

The Parity Consulting team has extensive experience in business process improvement in the most demanding of food sales operations. Armed with tools that address virtually every food industry customer service process and function, Parity can help you meet customers' expectations. With the help of the Consulting Team and the depth and flexibility of Parity Food Sales Management your company has the key to driving growth and increasing in value.

Notable Features Include:

• Sales Order Processing
• Pricing, Promotions & Accruals
• Broker & Commisions Management
• Truck Scheduling & Load Sequencing
• Contracts, Quotes, Standing Orders & Templates
• Electronic Order Processing (EDI)

Specifically designed for control of food manufacturing, storage and distribution, Parity Inventory Management has an impressive and thorough list of food-specific features. Specialized tools address critical issues in food inventory management including lot tracing, quality management, product identification, expiration dates, date codes and hold management. These customizable tools are the foundation of a robust, searchable database that provides a complete account of every product or ingredient bought, processed and manufactured.

Whether you have a few products or many, one warehouse or many, small or large orders, high or low volumes, the Parity Food Inventory solution scales to your current operational requirements and is able to adapt and change as your company grows.

With Parity Food Inventory, your sales team will have the advantage of fast, accurate inventory visibility and seamless integration to the entire customer service process, keeping everyone involved and on the same page. Your customers will see improved and consistent service and a complete and secure lot history. All operations managers from procurement and receiving through production, storage, transfer and shipping will be dialed into visible, well-coordinated business processes across all functions and departments

For the challenges of inventory control in the food industry, the Parity team brings extensive skills and experience, along with great inventory management tools to every project. Whichever aspect of your business process you wish improve, inventory control plays a crucial role.

Notable Features Include:

• Inventory Organization & Mangement
• Lot Tracing, Holds & Recall Management
• Managing Inventory Requirements
• Integrated Supply Chain Execution

Whether your production is batch or continuous, bulk or cased, dry, wet, fresh, frozen, canned, bottled, boxed or bagged, Parity Food Manufacturing provides the tools to manage your business. Parity manufacturing can be scaled to fit any size business, from small to large plants, to multiple-line or multiple-plant production.

With Parity food Manufacturing, your production management will appreciate the visibility of manufacturing operations along with the seamless integration of production scheduling, order execution, quality management, inventory control, procurement and materials requirements planning. Your finance and accounting teams will have tools and reliable data for cost management and financial analysis. Inventory management will be streamlined by real-time integration of manufacturing and inventory control functions. Your customers will appreciate the detail, speed and security of your lot tracking and tracing through production. With Parity food Manufacturing, your company will see improved cost management and more effective utilization of the plant, equipment and materials.

The Parity team of food manufacturing specialists provides the benefits of their extensive experience in a variety of food manufacturing operations. Every food company is different, but the Parity team arrives at your door with a deep understanding of the industry and what makes a manufacturing operation run effectively. With Parity Food Manufacturing, our consultants can help you drive down costs, provide better customer service, and improve on any plant operations that may stand between you and an increasingly competitive market.

Notable Features Include:

• Formulation (Bill of Material) Management
• Scalable Production
• Yields and Variances

The Parity Food Cost Management solution empowers your team with a highly transparent and verifiable costing method. As a result, your finance and accounting team will be able to spend more time analyzing the business. Operational managers will be able to take responsibility for the costs they control and the marketing team will have greater insight into product costing for more profitable and competitive pricing and sales decisions.

The Parity Consulting team has specialists with the education, experience and passion to help you convert costing from a tough job to a core competitive advantage. Most importantly, your approach to costing can start simple, and when you are ready, grow with you as you gain new verifiable knowledge from the system. The Parity team and Parity costing tools can help you maintain higher standards and increased profits.

Notable Features Include:

• Cost Panning & Modeling
• Retroactive Costing
• Process Manufacturing
• Resource Cost Mangement
• Enterprise Financial Framework

Imagine freely browsing data and exploring your business operations from virtually any perspective at the touch of a button. Consider what you could accomplish with on the fly analysis in virtually any conceivable manner—the easy to use Business Intelligence tools by Parity, featuring Microsoft Excel™, provide clear insight into your operations.

Every manager in your company will appreciate the unprecedented access to relevant, actionable information. Whether running routine operating reports or exploring data, Parity Business Intelligence empowers every decision maker in your company by providing them with the resources to make more efficient and informed decisions.

Parity consulting is ready to accelerate you business. The strength of Parity Business Intelligence is flexibility. Parity BI works in cooperation with Microsoft reporting products and other systems allowing the user to display real-time custom reports in multiple views. Parity solutions are designed to integrate with outside sources, so reporting is never limited to internal data. With a team comprised of business intelligence specialists, and backed by the best software system in the industry, Parity gets customers tangible results quickly and efficiently.

With the right tools, your operations crew can accurately and orderly execute these critical and time-sensitive tasks. Throughout your plant, warehouse and loading dock, Parity optimizes your throughput by allowing your operations team to clearly see, pick and stage product even during periods of extreme activity or when a warehouse is at or above capacity. By improving the process, physical movement is optimized, errors are eliminated and orders are shipped accurately and on time.

The Parity team has specialists in barcode inventory tracking, shop floor data collection and warehouse management. Their experience brings you best practices, proven solutions and the ability to configure innovative solutions to streamline production and materials handling throughout your operations. If you already have scanners and printers, Parity SCE can often use them, reducing your investment in new equipment. Whether you run a high-volume fresh make-to-order operation or a replenishment-based manufacturing facility, the system scales to the number of operators and transaction volume you need.

Notable Features Include:

• Paperless, Optimized Inventory Control
• Business Process Integration

Noteable Features Include:

• Warehouse Location Tracking
• Directed Picking, Put-away and Shipping Execution

Whether your customer orders need to meet predefined test specifications or your production ingredients need to be selected for quality characteristics, Parity Food Quality Management is the tool that allows your lab team to directly and efficiently support these critical activities. The integrated database of Parity Food Quality Management allows you to serve your customers better than with a paper trail or an offline system. Parity Food Quality Management coupled with the Parity Food Inventory goes beyond operational efficiency to become a true competitive advantage.

The Parity team understands the role of quality management in the overall operations of a food manufacturing company. Whether your needs are basic lot tracing and lot holds or you require an integrated lot test system, the Parity team can work with you to configure a quality management solution to match your operations.

Notable Features:

• Product and Customer Test Specifications
• Test Results Tracking and Visibility
• Directed Lot Selection
• Lot Hold Management

Raw Materials and Ingredients

The Parity Purchase Order module is tuned to the specific requirements of the food manufacturing industry. Parity Purchasing simplifies the first steps of raw material and ingredient tracking for a food manufacturing facility. Integration with Parity Barcode Inventory Tracking solution supports seamless, end-to-end electronic tracking of ingredients through receiving, storage, production and shipping to customers.

Buying from Growers and Fishing Vessels

Parity Grower Accounting and Fish Purchasing systems manage the entire, often complex relationship with farms or fishing vessels and food manufacturing facilities. When a normal purchase order is not sufficient to manage this type of procurement, Parity offers solutions that manage the complexities, such as pricing contracts, advances, supply sales, premiums, receiving, grading, tax withholdings, regulatory reports, retroactive price adjustments, and settlement processing.

By selecting Parity, the procurement team will recover valuable time otherwise spent working on these relationships. Your suppliers will appreciate your ability to provide them clean, clear and accurate accounting for the business you do with them Finance and accounting will see improvements in speed, accuracy and security of a fully integrated business process.

Parity Consulting has specialists with extensive experience planning, configuring and launching Grower Accounting and Fish Purchasing solutions. If your procurement goes beyond a purchase order, our consulting team will explore the details and specifics of your procurement processes and work out solutions with you that eliminate virtually all manual bookkeeping while providing better information and better service to everyone involved.