SAP Meat and Fish Management by msg
Efficiency throughout the entire value chain: from farm to fork.
SAP Meat and Fish Management by msg has been specifically designed to plan, control and trace the processing of meat and fish from the receipt to the finished product. In this way, the SAP industry solution brings efficiency and transparency to the multi-layered planning, production and sales processes and increases the competitiveness of companies in the meat and fish industry.
What SAP Meat & Fish Management by msg can do for you
Livestock Operations
Livestock Operations enable the end-to-end control of animal-based production, covering sourcing, farming, movement, and the processing of livestock in a fully integrated SAP environment.
The solution provides transparency across the entire lifecycle of the animal, ensuring accurate traceability, weight and yield management, and seamless integration into logistics, finance, and processing operations.
By embedding livestock data directly into SAP’s core processes, companies gain real-time visibility, improve planning accuracy, and ensure compliance with industry regulations, while eliminating data silos between farm, slaughter, and production.
Livestock Procurement and Slaughtering
Livestock Procurement and Slaughtering enables the fully integrated management of animal sourcing and primary processing—directly embedded into SAP’s core processes.
From supplier selection and slaughter execution to slaughtered stock settlement, the solution ensures seamless traceability, accurate weight and quality capture, and real-time integration into downstream production, logistics, and finance.
By connecting procurement and slaughtering on a single data foundation, companies gain full transparency from animal intake to carcass processing, thereby reducing manual reconciliation, improving yield control, and ensuring regulatory compliance.
Disassembly
Disassembly is a core production process in the meat and fish industry, where raw materials are systematically broken down into valuable commercial products.
Within this process, a single input—such as a carcass or whole fish—is transformed into multiple outputs, including primary cuts, by-products, and trim.
In contrast to traditional manufacturing, disassembly is characterized by its one-to-many structure, meaning that one raw material generates a broad range of products with varying quality, weight, and value. This makes the process inherently complex and highly data-driven. Within SAP Meat and Fish Management by msg, Disassembly is fully integrated into production, costing, and planning processes like push and pull balancing.
Further Processing and Packaging
Within SAP Meat and Fish Management by msg, Further Processing and Packaging are fully integrated into production execution and planning.
The solution supports:
- Recipe-driven production processes with consistent quality control
- Seamless integration with upstream Disassembly and downstream Logistics
- End-to-end traceability from raw material to packaged product
- Real-time monitoring of production, costs, and resource utilization
- Automated shop floor integration (e.g., scales, scanners, labeling systems) for efficient execution
- Automation between different processes (e.g. via weighing strategies and order pairing)
- Out-of-the-box integration of automated packaging and labeling lines
Easy Picking
Easy Picking helps food manufacturers streamline the movement of products from packaging lines to shipping units while maintaining full control.
The solution is designed for SAP-driven production and logistics environments where fast, practical execution is required in small or fast-moving pull-through areas. Easy Picking supports picking, packing, scanning, weighing, palletizing, and goods issue preparation in one streamlined process. It is not intended to replace professional warehouse management but to support inventory-managed storage locations that are not operated through a warehouse management system. In this context, it complements SAP logistics processes with a simpler, shop floor-oriented picking approach where this is the better operational fit.
- Accurate weight and batch capture: Record exact catch weights and batch information directly during picking.
- Flexible hardware integration: Connect handheld scanners, vehicle-mounted terminals, mobile picking carts, weighing scales, and other shop floor devices.
- Material flow support: Help align production output, packaging, picking, and dispatch preparation so goods move efficiently through the final operational steps.
- Reliable order fulfillment: Validate products, batches, weights, and variants in real time to reduce errors and improve customer service.
- End-to-end traceability: Link every picked shipping unit back to the relevant production batch and inventory records.
Easy Picking helps teams execute picking and packing close to production with accurate weight, batch, and handling unit information, supporting reliable fulfillment while keeping the process efficient and easy to operate
Origin Control
Origin Control ensures full transparency and traceability of products across the entire meat and fish value chain.
enables companies to track the origin, composition, and transformation of raw materials and products—from the initial source through all production stages to the final delivery.
In the meat and fish industry, origin tracking is particularly critical due to strict regulatory requirements, food safety standards, and increasing consumer expectations. Products must often be traceable back to specific animals, batches, or suppliers, including attributes such as country of origin, slaughter details, or quality classifications. The solution is highly flexible, enabling fast and seamless adaptation to changing requirements.
Origin Control addresses these requirements by linking all relevant information throughout the production process, including:
- Raw material origin (e.g., supplier, farm, catch area)
- Processing steps and transformations (e.g., slaughtering, disassembly, further processing)
- Batch and handling unit relationships across all stages
- Product-specific characteristics such as quality grades
Shopfloor Management
msg’s Shopfloor Management enables food manufacturers to capture all relevant data along the entire value chain.
Our out‑of‑the‑box Shopfloor templates can be used immediately or tailored to specific operational needs. These templates act as powerful implementation accelerators, helping companies
- digitalize manual steps
- automate process sequences
- and ensure consistent recipe execution across tanks and production stages.
Our solution integrates with all relevant SAP modules like Quality Management to ensure that all SOPs are followed.
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