Every month we publish a "feature of the month" where we ask one of our consultants to highlight a feature in MILAS AX (our specific ERP modules for Microsoft Dynamics AX). This month Tim De Ryck shares his insights.

One of the best methods to retain and grow your customer base in a market characterised by homogeneous goods is by offering..

Evaluating buying opportunities is often a big challenge for organisations in the feed industry. With BESTMIX Formulation you can correctly assess the value of raw material buying opportunities by simulating wether or not the raw material would fit into the existing formulas in a least-cost way.

While formulating a recipe or ration, users don't always want to see all the nutrients or ingredients. For example, they'd only want to see the nutrients that have a constraint.

In BESTMIX Formulation as a Service, the nutrient view and ingredient view can help you with this.

Generating legally compliant tags for your feed products can take up a lot of time. There are lots of different legislative obligations and commercial interests that need to be taken into account when generating the tags and labels that will accompany your feed product. 

The "used in" tool allows BESTMIX feed formulation users to search through their compounds and products based upon pre-set conditions (ingredient inclusions and/or nutrient values).  

The nutritional industry is one of Adifo’s target sectors and one in which mergers and acquisitions are ever-present as the market continues to consolidate. NWF Group are a specialist agricultural and distribution business delivering feed, food and fuel across the UK. NWF Agriculture is a successful member of the group and one of the largest UK..

Many BESTMIX Feed Formulation users use the ingredient and compound families to store regularly-used selections. In most cases these families need to be updated quite often to stay up-to-date.

By using the "dynamic families" functionality you can store the search criteria so BESTMIX automatically updates the family upon use.

BESTMIX Quality control users can optimize their experience to suit their personal preferences. By customizing the grids users can choose which data they prefer to see in which screen.

Changing the sort order of the grid, best fit of the column(s) or switching the order of the columns are generally well known and frequently used functions. Today..

Users of BESTMIX Formulation as a Service can use the ingredient family functionality as a "secondary" grouping function. The functionality allows the collection of ingredients that have certain common characteristics. Without the ingredient families, users would have to reselect ingredients each time they need to process a set of ingredients..

BESTMIX Feed formulation users can save a lot of time by using the related compound functionality in situations such as when:

• You have formulas with different parameters (name, code, labels, …) but an identical composition
• You have formulas that have the same composition, but have different extra product ingredients (additives, medicines, …)