Feed business

Dynamics in production. Digitally integrated. Clarity in sales.

Manufacturers in the animal feed sector face the challenge of efficiently managing diverse product portfolios, ensuring production flexibility, and at the same time guaranteeing transparent sales processes. With the fabular ERP solution from fab4minds, recipes, packaging units, and dynamic pricing are intelligently linked. Production and sales data flow together seamlessly, enabling real-time, informed decisions to be made. The integration of production data, IoT-controlled silos, and real-time pricing mechanisms creates a central, digital platform that efficiently manages processes, conserves resources, and at the same time sustainably increases quality, traceability, and profitability. The result: maximum efficiency, transparent processes, and future-proof, scalable production that meets the growing demands of the feed market.

IoT integration of silo controls for automated material flows

Silo fill levels, cell allocations, and removal processes are synchronized with the ERP system in real time via IoT interfaces. This creates end-to-end processes from storage to dosing, including seamless traceability, fill level monitoring, and automatic replenishment control directly from the plant periphery. This makes production processes more efficient, transparent, and error-free, while ensuring material availability at all times.

Management of loose and bagged goods with dynamic real-time pricing

The ERP system flexibly maps bulk and bagged goods. Real-time pricing automatically takes into account daily prices, quantity scales, packaging costs, and logistics surcharges. This allows key accounts, distributors, and end customers to be served individually and in line with market conditions, while sales processes remain efficient, transparent, and economical. Companies benefit from optimized costing, faster order processing, and a stable, scalable supply chain.

Complex recipe management with integrated optimization

fabular from fab4minds allows you to efficiently manage complex recipes—including variants, alternative raw materials, and quantity scaling. Production parameters such as moisture, nutritional value, energy content, and mixing ratios are calculated and optimized with the help of the system. This intelligent recipe management improves resource efficiency, ensures consistently high product quality, and reduces waste, thereby lowering costs and supporting sustainable production processes.

An overview of the most important functions

Test planning & execution

Plan and document raw material, process and end product tests efficiently and comprehensibly — with automated test plans, laboratory connectivity and digital recording.

Deviation & complaint management

Deviations and complaints are recorded, evaluated and converted into measures in a structured manner. Deadlines, responsibilities and documentation are clearly defined — ideal for QA and customer service.

Traceability & auditability

Batches, raw materials and recipes are fully traceable — from receipt of goods to delivery. All certificates are audit-proof and available at the push of a button.

Reporting & Key Performance Indicator Analysis

Incorporated reporting with real-time dashboards provides transparency regarding production output, raw material consumption, sales, and inventory levels. Accurate forecasts support the planning of production, procurement, and sales, and provide a reliable basis for sound strategic decisions.

Quality & Safety Management

Integrated quality and safety management enables structured administration of quality controls, laboratory analyses, and test reports. Industry-specific standards such as IFS or HACCP are supported by the system, while approvals, analyses, and certificates are seamlessly documented and made available for review at any time.

Warehouse & Inventory Management

For loose and bagged goods, you get full transparency on inventory, turnover, and replenishment needs—including automatic scheduling and real-time info.

Production planning & capacity control

Orders, raw material availability, silo capacities, and plant performance are linked together. This allows production processes to be planned in advance, bottlenecks to be avoided, and throughput times to be shortened.

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ERP taken to the next level – with AI

fabAI – Ihre KI für digitales Unternehmenswissen, Automatisierung und Effizienzsteigerung

Unleash your company's full potential with fabAI, the intelligent AI solution from fab4minds. fabAI digitizes your entire company knowledge, optimizes internal information processes, and creates the basis for a fully networked, automated working environment. AI-supported forecasts support demand-driven production and sales planning as well as optimized warehousing. At the same time, patterns and deviations in customer behavior are identified at an early stage. The integrated chatbot allows analyses, information, and actions to be used directly and efficiently in the ERP.

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AI Features

Centralized AI-powered knowledge management & ECM

fabAI brings together company knowledge in a holistic way on an AI-powered platform for the first time. Instead of spreading data across different systems and folders, the AI accesses ERP, process metrics, financial data (FI/CO), BI systems, and documents in real time. Content is contextualized, understood, and prepared based on roles, matching the user's area of responsibility and questions. This creates an intelligent layer of knowledge that supports employees in their day-to-day business, accelerates decision-making, and creates transparency across departments and locations.

Voice control instead of click paths — natural interface for ERP users

Based on demand, ordering behavior and location data, the AI calculates which items must be available when and where. Inventory forecasting from fabAI ensures optimal distribution of goods, reduces inventory costs and minimizes shortages. This significantly improves availability, particularly in dynamic supply chains with changing demand.

Identify customer segments and understand behavior — automated cluster analysis

fabAI's AI cluster analysis automatically detects patterns, deviations, and changes in customer and process behavior—reliably, in real time, and without manual searching. This enables companies to respond early, prioritize optimizations, and avoid negative effects. Typical use cases: - Early warning system for customer churn: Identify changes in purchasing behavior and derive countermeasures - Product range analysis: Identify fluctuations in demand at an early stage and adjust offers - Delivery and quality monitoring: Identify bottlenecks or problems and optimize processes

Targeted inventory management — inventory forecasting with AI

Sales and production forecasting with AI

fabAI analyses historical order data, seasonal patterns, external influencing factors such as weather or holidays and uses this to generate accurate sales and production forecasts. This makes it possible to avoid excess quantities, make better use of production capacities and optimize procurement processes. Companies receive a data-based basis for daily operational planning — directly in the ERP.