Business Analytics in Performance Assessment of Food Manufacturing System

Abstract

Transparency is a jargon in the food industry particularly driven by regulators and consumers. Though
its a common term, understanding and applying it is still unclear to the food industry specifically what transparency
means, why to pursue it, what it involves, or how to improve it (http://www.streetdirectory.com, 2017). The realities
of todays competitive food manufacturing industry, along with pressure from stakeholders, require business leaders to
be more aggressive and creative with cost reduction initiatives (corepractice.com, 2017). This led to the development
of a system that will enable food production line to automate inventory and product production monitoring. This will
enable transparencies in terms of viewing available raw materials vis-´a-vis the production order. This paper will provide
architecture of a food manufacturing system that could lead to transparencies.