Management of purchasing raw materials, packaging, chemicals, additives: With seafood, purchasing raw materials of shrimp, fish, squid, oysters... is very complicated and there are many different purchasing forms such as: import purchasing, purchasing through shipping agents. transferred and purchased at the factory, through electronic scales with many different quality materials such as additional ratio, classification/group of materials when purchasing. With individual packaging, it must be purchased according to the contract, the customer, and general packaging must be purchased together for all orders such as chemicals, additives, and packaging in packages.
Furthermore, the price of purchasing raw materials is constantly changed according to size and according to the individual needs of ordering customers, so flexibility in purchasing and payment is very high.
Business Administration & Sales: Most of the time is contract manufacturing and sales (Make to Order), so managing all information related to the contract is a mandatory requirement from purchasing packaging, inventory. warehouse, progress. Furthermore, in order to have smooth, thorough and correct information, all information from customer requests through the sales department and to other departments must be absolutely strictly controlled and not allowed. deviations in the internal interaction process.
The sales management of the sales department faces many challenges from estimating selling prices, recording information from detailed customer needs that often change, controlling finished product inventory according to contracts, inventory Temporary closure of raw material warehouses, proactive closure, customs procedures synchronized with production progress, push back goods for later orders... greatly affect business efficiency as well as competitiveness in the market
Managing cold storage and packaging warehouses according to Warehouse standards: To ensure quality goods and business efficiency, effective warehouse management is a mandatory requirement in the Fisheries industry.< br />
With cold storage, from warehouses in factories to independent warehouses or from rented warehouses, businesses need to strictly manage, especially detailed control of retail cakes (not enough packages), temporarily packed goods due to oversized raw materials. , finished goods not yet delivered according to the contract, goods left behind according to the contract due to overproduction or closure, declarations are different from reality and make sure that the management of storage time for each batch must be available.
Furthermore, the environment in cold storage is very harsh in management and control, import and export as well as limitations in phone signals and internet, leading to the application of information technology being a challenge.
With packaging warehouses, controlling packaging inventory by customer, detailed by location, importing, exporting or distributing packaging to factories is properly and promptly controlled will be a priority in the industry.
Urgent need to bring smart automatic devices and solutions into management.
Production - quality management: In most seafood businesses, control and management during the production process at the factory is an extremely big challenge, more specifically determining clearly where to manage, where management is feasible, temporary warehouses at the factory, retail bakery goods that are not yet fully packaged, warehouses receiving packaging from workshop and prepare procedures for the packaging stage, etc. Therefore, balancing the needs of management and control with the feasibility of actual operations is a problem for which Citek has specific solutions. based on the SAP solution suite. The need for integrated automation solutions in seafood processing factories.
Managing costs, expenses, profits: To have a good strategy for markets and product lines (traditional, added value), decentralization of product groups, customers as well as effective management of each contract, customer, and sales staff, the management of costs, expenses, and profits is a high requirement. from the business leadership.
With this need, building a single and appropriate set of norms is applied in departments within the enterprise such as finance, sales, production, etc. This is also a challenge but also an opportunity and motivation for businesses to standardize themselves in accordance with the strategy of applying a comprehensive set of solutions throughout the company.
Other requirements on compliance with financial accounting, tax and legal regulations by industry. Requirements for advanced management analysis and customer management.