ProVisions Overview

Whether you sell meat, produce, beverages or specialty foods, you work hard. So, too, should the software you choose to run your business. The best of today's generation of industry-specific software solutions help you reduce costs, maximize margins and provide your customers with the best possible service. Selecting the right solution for your type of business can be challenging. Some packages don't offer all the functionality you need, while others are either too complex or expensive.

ProVisions, Computer Associates’ industry-specific Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, takes the guesswork out of selecting business software. Designed specifically for the food processing and wholesale distribution industry, ProVisions is easy-to-use, 100% Windows-based software that automates sales, inventory, production, traceability, e-commerce, business intelligence and more.

For a number of years CAI has worked closely with clients within the food distribution and food processing industries in meeting the unique challenges of weight-based, commodity-priced products where yields, lot and portion control, by-product accounting, settlement processing, catch weight, multiple freezer/warehouse and multi-corporation locations are of paramount importance.

A fully integrated ERP solution, ProVisions helps you:

• Shorten cash to cash cycles
• Boost operating profit
• Increase production yields
• Maximize staff efficiency
• Achieve total traceability
• Improve customer service
• Gain cost-effective regulatory compliance
• Eliminate errors

Built-In Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) Capability

ProVisions also features an integrated Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) component that ensures that you always have enough product available for production and delivery to customers while maintaining the lowest possible levels of inventory. The MRP solution also enables you to plan and integrate manufacturing, delivery schedules and purchasing activities. With ProVisions’ MRP component, you gain better control over the types and quantities of materials purchased, allowing you to plan which products are to be produced and in what quantities, all at the lowest possible cost. What’s more, the MRP solution provides for more efficient production (longer runs, less product changeovers) and lower inventory levels, and helps you break away from the ‘job shop’ method of production.

ProVisions customers are located throughout the United States and Canada. These businesses include:

• Meat / Poultry Processors / Distributors
• Fruit / Produce Growers / Distributors
• Specialty Food Processors / Distributors
• Dairy Product Distributors
• Beverages and Breweries
• Food Service Companies

In order to insure the highest level of management reporting, software performance and ongoing client profitability, CAI has applied advanced, industry specific, software concepts and technology innovations to everyday business issues for the express purpose of enhancing client performance and profitability. In addition, CAI has developed a unique concept within the food processing and wholesale distribution industries, which is our ‘Guarantee Against Software Obsolescence’. Under this concept, research and development on advanced computer software processes is on going and results in the periodic release of new software functionality, which not only meets the current needs of our business partners but sets the standard for food distribution and food processing software nationwide. And the best part is that there is no additional charge for the new software.