Feed
Mill Manager
Feed Mill Manager from Feed Management Systems makes it easy for you to deliver the right feed at the right cost to the right place at the right time - with fewer errors, less rework, and better cost control at every step.
How? Feed Mill Manager seamlessly integrates order processing, formulation control, manufacturing, and financial accounting for your commercial feed operations. It's that simple.
Run your business more efficiently - and more profitably - with Feed Mill Manager
- One-time data entry lets you reduce staffing, errors, and rework.
- Real-time control over your inventory, purchasing, shipping logistics, pricing, labeling and formulation
- Full traceability of feed ingredients and finished feed for food safety and government regulations
- Greater pricing flexibility helps you maintain customer loyalty
- Seamlessly interfaces with Brill Formulation, batch controllers, accounting, and other information and animal management software tools.
- Gathers and stores every single bit of information about the entire feed-order processing cycle and lets you report on it in a variety of ways.
- Unlimited customizable reports using the standard report writer help you take the guesswork out of planning and forecasting.
- Fast return on your investment because you quickly save money on every ton of feed you manufacture!
Find out just how much Feed Mill Manager can favorably affect your bottom line. Call Feed Management Systems at (763) 560-8139 today for a FREE Needs Analysis.
Feed Mill Manager Standard Modules
Feed Mill Manager is the heart and soul of today's most efficient and profitable mill operations. From order entry through to delivery to your customer and beyond, the base FMM system gives you unprecedented flexibility and control of your feed manufacturing business.
Your livestock feed manufacturing business will become vastly more efficient, and just quite possibly more profitable, with the power of Feed Mill Manager's standard modules.
Order Processing
- Order Entry
- Provides timely, automatic formula selection and pricing.
- Production Scheduling
- Makes the manufacture and delivery of feed more efficient.
- Feed Manufacturing
- Guarantees that the formula you make is the formula ordered, without rekeying information.
- Recurring Orders
- Simplifies the process of creating the same order multiple times over a set period at a constant rate.
Production Management
- Order Compression/Lead-out
- Combines many small batches of feed into one larger batch.
- Multiple Production Systems
- Makes order processing easy, even for multiple locations or with multiple batching systems.
Inventory Management
- Inventory Control
- Helps reduce excess inventory while improving customer service by efficiently and accurately managing inventory at an unlimited number of sites on a real-time basis.
- Lot Tracking Finished Goods
- Tracks lot number of finished feed from the purchase of ingredients to delivery of feed to the animals.
- Lot Tracking of Items
- Provides a full audit trail for these items from the receipt of inventory on through to the customer and even the group of animals that consumed the items.
- Vendor Cost Import
- Saves you time and reduces entry errors by automatically updating ingredient costs and pricing from your vendors.
System Integration
- Price Export
- Updates other information systems with ingredient and formula prices generated in Feed Mill Manager.
- Order History Export
- Electronically sends quantity and cost information to Animal Management Systems.
- Customer Grain Bank
- Automatically tracks and prices feed correctly when customers use their own ingredients.
- Customer Rollup
- Produces feed for multiple customers but consolidates billing information.
- Sales Contracts
- Automatically tracks and prices feed correctly when customers lock in purchases of ingredients or finished feeds.
- Feed Budget Management
- Automatically chooses correct feed for a group of animals and tracks all feed events for that group.
- Split Billing
- Easily and automatically accounts for customers who have shared ownership of accounts and need separate billing.
- Consumption-Based Order Entry
- An addition to Stage Feeding, tracks daily consumption and prediction of feed needs for an animal group.
- Invoicing
- A Microsoft Dynamics™ GP module. A single-window invoicing process delivers both efficiency and flexibility.
- Multi-Level Formulas
- Controls the production, inventory, and pricing of base mixes and premixes with many variations.
- Projected Inventory Requirements
- Improves the efficiency of ingredient purchasing and scheduling of feed manufacture.
- Production Interface
- Eliminates rekeying information from feed production by linking with automation systems.
- Purchase Order Processing
- Automates issuing and managing purchase orders and the receiving of items tracked by purchase order.
- Purchase Contracts
- Creates a contract linked to individual purchase orders and receiving transactions. Manages basis contracts and other long-term purchase agreements.
- Advanced Costing
- Defines and distributes additional costs of manufacturing feed beyond ingredient costs.
- Advanced Pricing
- Gives you the most versatile system on the market today for automatically pricing feed.
- Drug Reconciliation
- Streamlines documentation of physical inventories and reconciliation of lot-tracked ingredients.
- Receiving
- Automates the process of receiving bulk ingredients.
- Accounting Interface
- Electronically sends all required information for customer billing and inventory control to your current financial accounting system.
- Transaction Import
- Provides two-way communication with most financial accounting systems.
- Order Import
- Electronically sends orders from one company to another.
- Customer/Item Import
- Provides two-way communication with customers' financial accounting systems.
- Grain Bank Interface
- Imports Grain Bank balances and exports Grain Bank usage to your company's financial accounting system.
- Grain Accounting Interface
- A series of interfaces to grain accounting packages eliminates rekeying of data from one system to another.
- Formula Import
- Updates formulas in Feed Mill Manager without having to rekey any information.
- Feed Pricing and Quoting Integration
- Provides an easy exchange and offers up-to-date information that is shared between Feed Pricing and Quoting and Feed Mill Manager.
Feed Mill Manager Optional Modules
You can take your customer service and mill management to an even higher level of efficiency with these robust add-ons allowing you to customize your systems based on your strategic business needs.
Order Processing
Production Management
Inventory Management
System Integration
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Technology, specifically the full suite of FMS products, allows Form-A-Feed to create specific rations for customers, process feed orders and invoice products electronically, control inventory and costs, and communicate with their Joint Ventures to provide superior products, services and value to the producers at an economical price. "If we don't keep up with technology, everyone suffers. It requires us to perform every job that we do here at FAF better, faster and wtih fewer errors."
- Marty Nelson Jr.
Form-A-Feed,
Stewart, MN
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