Fast-Moving Consumer Goods

Connect Your FMCG Operations With the Right Technology

INDUSTRY OVERVIEW

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods

FMCG runs on speed, freshness and trust. SL Information’s solutions cover every stage, from formula management to the invoice your retailer receives. 

  

FMCG faces a different kind of pressure from general manufacturing: shorter shelf lives, higher transaction volumes, tighter food safety obligations, and retailers who expect accurate, on-time delivery every time. A recipe changes, a batch must be traced back to its raw materials within minutes of a quality issue, and a promotion has to reach every route-to-market channel at once. Spreadsheets and disconnected systems can’t keep pace. 

  

SL Information Solutions brings over 20 years of manufacturing experience and more than 20 FMCG manufacturing customers across ASEAN, including Lam Soon, spanning beverages, dairy, meat, poultry and fish, bakery, snacks and confectionery, and food ingredients. Infor M3 CloudSuite, purpose-built with food and beverage functionality, is the ERP platform SL Information leads with for FMCG manufacturers. It is backed by the same mobility, AI automation, customer communications and infrastructure portfolio used across the rest of the business.

Core features

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods

Demand Planning & Route-to-Market Sales

Forecasting fast-moving, often promotion-driven demand, and getting orders in from every route-to-market channel — modern trade, general trade, distributors and direct.

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Procurement & Raw Material Sourcing

Sourcing raw materials and packaging on schedules that match short shelf lives and frequent formula changes.

 

 

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Recipe/Formula & Production Planning

Managing recipes and formulas — and the frequent changes FMCG products go through — while planning production to match short-shelf-life constraints.

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Batch Production & Manufacturing

Running production in batches, with full genealogy from raw material to finished case, ready to support a recall if one is ever needed.

 

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Quality, Food Safety & Traceability

Meeting food safety obligations and being able to trace any batch back to its raw materials — and forward to where it shipped — within minutes.

 

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Warehouse & Inventory (Batch / Shelf-Life Aware)

Managing inventory where expiry dates, not just stock counts, determine what should ship first.

 

 

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Distribution & Retailer Fulfillment

Getting product to modern trade, general trade and distributor channels on time, with the paperwork retailers expect.

 

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Finance, AP/AR & Compliance

Closing the loop financially at FMCG’s transaction volume, while meeting Malaysia’s e-invoicing obligations.

 

 

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Retailer & Customer Communications

Every retailer statement, promotional notice, delivery confirmation and compliance document an FMCG business sends out.

 

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Infrastructure

Server Storage & Cybersecurity

IBM Server & Storage

The hardware foundation for ERP, warehouse and automation workloads

Cybersecurity & backup (Acronis)

Protecting stock, customer and financial data across the whole chain

FAQ

Understanding Fast-Moving Consumer Goods

Why does SL Information lead with Infor M3 for FMCG instead of Pronto Xi?

Infor M3 CloudSuite has purpose-built food & beverage functionality — recipe/formula management, batch traceability and shelf-life tracking — that’s built for FMCG specifically rather than adapted from a general manufacturing template. Pronto Xi also serves food & beverage businesses and remains an option; [SL Information can advise which fits your specific product range and scale.] 

Yes — recipe and formula management is native to Infor M3 CloudSuite for FMCG, built to handle the frequent reformulation common in food and beverage products. 

Traceability and recall capability are built into the Quality Management functionality, designed to trace a batch back to raw materials and forward to affected shipments quickly — not as a manual, after-the-fact investigation. 

Yes — warehouse and inventory functionality is lot- and batch-aware with shelf-life visibility, and StockIT gives real-time visibility on the warehouse floor into what’s aging out. 

Yes — OrderIT is built for exactly this: field and van sales teams capturing orders, checking live stock and pricing, and tracking deliveries from a phone or tablet. 

Yes — Mountaintop e-Invoice Middleware connects your ERP to LHDN’s MyInvois platform for compliant submission, built to handle high-volume transaction environments like FMCG distribution. 

That’s what SmartLogic (AP) and Reclaw (AR) are built for — AI-based data extraction and matching that removes manual re-keying at FMCG’s transaction volume. 

It depends on scope — number of sites, SKUs, recipes and integrations involved. [Add your typical Malaysian FMCG implementation timeline once scoped with a client.]